Is Your Woodworking Plant OSHA Safe?
From the Woodworking Network blog, a good article on OSHA press releases in which wood products firms have been cited for serious, repeat and/or willful safety and health violations. What is your corporate safety culture like? Only serious "continuous significant improvement", and benchmarking best engineering practices to your health and safety program will prevent these type OSHA violations and citations. Ignorance and negligence of current NFPA Standards for combustible dust, dust collection and other safety practices is what causes OSHA to have to police your business. Like Rich in this article, I shake my head every time I read one of these stories or press releases, and it is almost a daily occurrence. The shame is that many of the events in these stories could have been prevented! My business is in the field of combustible dust, and helping protect process conveying systems, and dust collection systems from fires and explosions. My primary focus is in preven...