As a safety professional, you work every day to ensure employees are safe and productive. You provide the appropriate training, reinforce basic safety concepts, and provide necessary PPE. You are ...

Managers and safety professionals from manufacturing firms tend to believe that their machinery and equipment is well-guarded, but reliable data and professional experiences prove that machine ...

Moving machine parts have the potential to cause severe workplace injuries, such as crushed fingers or hands, amputations, burns, or blindness. Amputations, lacerations, and abrasions are costly and ...

American industry can be proud of the many advances in occupational safety and health that have evolved during OSHA’s 40-year reign. While industry has made laudable gains, there are some fundamental ...

Manufacturers face a variety of machine guarding challenges: old equipment vs. new equipment; point-of-operation vs. mechanical power transmission; highly automated, multiple-purpose machines vs.

An argument for why additive manufacturing offers a viable alternative for guard design that is better suited to today’s machines and industrial environments. Machine guarding has long been the ...