Confined Space Safety Policy - The 9 Policy Headings

The confined space safety policy is needed in many industrial and manufacturing settings. Being comprehensive and efficient is key. This article outlines one such policy.

Construction Management - Achieve Trust In The Workplace

If you are a high-level construction executive, or a mid-level manager, trying to motivate and encourage your staff to change, but having difficulty you can use this short guide to quickly gain trust from your employees, increase office efficiency & help your company achieve greater profits.

Management Accountability, A Guide To Making Major Changes At Large Companies

If you are looking to change a process or procedure at your company or implement a change, but are not successful you may need to look in the mirror. Often times, executives, and management need to change before they can expect their staff to change.

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - A Twelve Step Program

In order to protect cardholder data from theft or fraud, American Express, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover have developed what is known as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) These standards involve 12 steps needed become compliant, or face fines of up to $500,000, plus legal expenses, and even losing the ability to accept credit cards.

Tips to Best Utilize Older Workers in Your Workforce

It's inevitable - Baby Boomers are retiring and will continue to do so for years to come. But what happens to your workplace knowledge base? This article provides counsel on how to leverage it before it's gone.

Are You Killing Your Employees? Read This Before You Answer That Question

A recent survey by the Gallup Management Journal reveals that nearly three of every ten workers believe their jobs are harming them physically. My question for you is: Are you partly to blame? Thirteen tips to make your workplace a healthier place to be, physically, mentally and emotionally.

Attracting the Right Candidate for Your Daycare Position

After you have drawn up all the pre-requisites of your new hire, you need to ensure that you attract the right candidate to apply for the position. So what’s the best way to go about it?

Winning the Battle and the War - Negotiation Success

Everyday we enter into a variety of negotiations with prospective employees, current employees, and vendors. Though the situations are different, there are some basic guidelines that will ensure negotiation success.

A Look at Industrial Fasteners

Industrial fasteners are used in aerospace, military, construction, and other industrial applications. These are extremely strong, extremely weather resistant, and almost completely corrosion- and rust-proof. They are made from a variety of metals, including stainless steel, chromium, and carbon.

A Look at Industrial Air Compressors

Manufacturers and industry alike depend on the services of industrial air compressors. Most industries that use air compressors use high quality industrial-grade models. These models are different, more powerful and more expensive than ones that are used for lightweight jobs and for regular homeowners.

Industrial Safety Can Be Funny

How useful are your protective equipment if your workers are not using them? How do you ensure that your workers remember safety guidelines and avoid dangerous practices? Or observe good safety practices when nobody supervises them? Somehow, people need to get it into their subconscious mind to want to follow safety rules and regulations. If not it will be an uphill task for the safety practitioner. Do they have to wield the big stick like a policeman and play a cat-and-mouse game all the time?

Industrial Floors Use Color Coding to Communicate

Language is no problem when color-coded floor markings make the job as simple as matching colors. Mistakes are all too easy to make and even easier when language problems compound them. Now that we know how to get colored epoxy floor coatings down to stay, why not take advantage of them? Color coding pallet positions to correspond to color-coded conveyer belts is one way. Items coming off the yellow conveyer go to pallets on the yellow markings. Blue conveyer items go to blue conveyer pallet locations. Or, red spaces can be assigned for fire equipment and hose outlets, blue markings for water lines, and white markings for electrical panels and outlets. For traffic lanes, why not a yellow path rather than small taped lines? Following the yellow brick road worked for Dorothy and it can work for the rest of us.

Laser Marking and Laser Etching on Glass for Industrial Applications

Co2 laser marking for glass used in industrial applications is a fast, effective and inexpensive method to mark the product.

Industrial Name Plates

Industrial name plates are usually manufactured in materials like aluminum, brass, plastic or zinc. These name plates are used for warnings, information, nomenclature, working instruction, manufacturers’ information, date of manufacture, voltage usage, trade names, etc. Not only do name plates give an impression about the class of the manufactured goods, they also give minutiae about the product.