Near Miss on the Manufacturing Floor: What Happens Next
Learn how to respond to a near miss on a manufacturing floor. Covers reporting, root cause investigation, corrective actions and prevention.
Manufacturing Safety: When Production Overrides Procedure
It is 2:15 PM on a Thursday at Ridgeline Metal Products, a mid-size fabrication plant producing stamped and welded steel components for agricultural equipment. The plant employs 74 production workers across two shifts and has a total recordable in
Forklift Awareness: A Warehouse Near-Miss Case Study
It is a Thursday afternoon at a large regional distribution centre. The floor is busy: three forklifts are running regular stock-rotation routes, a fourth is staging outbound pallets near the loading dock, and foot traffic is high because the afte
Flammable Liquids Awareness: A Workplace Scenario
A maintenance technician at a distribution warehouse is decanting mineral spirits from a 55-gallon drum into a standard plastic fuel jug to use for parts cleaning. The work area has been used for this task regularly over the past two years without
Ingestion Poisoning on a Construction Site: A Scenario
A construction worker drinks from what he thinks is a water bottle left near his toolbox. It is not water. Within a minute he realizes the liquid has an acrid chemical taste, and he immediately spits out what he can. He is now sitting on the groun
Basic Life Support at Work: A Situational Scenario
A 52-year-old facilities supervisor collapses in the break room of a mid-size manufacturing plant at 10:40 AM. Three workers are present. None of them are the plant's designated first aid responder, who is on the floor. The AED is mounted on the w