Tag: manufacturing

Correcting Safety Problems Before They Cause Accidents

By Chris Kilbourne Dec 4, 2013 Special Topics in Safety Management

Updated: Jan 23, 2014

Yesterday, we featured strategies for investigating workplace accidents. Today, we focus on methods for correcting safety problems before they cause accidents. There are two common procedures for identifying and correcting safety problems: change analysis and job safety analysis (also known as job hazard analysis or safety analysis). Change Analysis To solve a problem using the […]

Three Good Reasons to Emphasize Lockout/Tagout Rules

By Chris Kilbourne Sep 11, 2011 Injuries and Illness

Updated: Nov 21, 2014

Three fatality reports from NIOSH illustrate the importance of emphasizing lockout/tagout rules. Reason 1  A 25-year-old worker at a concrete pipe manufacturing facility died from injuries received while cleaning a ribbon-type concrete mixer. The victim’s daily tasks included cleaning out the concrete mixer at the end of the shift. The clean-out procedure was to shut […]