Factory Safety Programs
Factory safety programs outline specific steps to prevent industrial accidents and procedures to follow when a worker is injured on the job. Injuries consume a company's resources through absenteeism, time spent investigating incidents, worker's compensation costs and other expenses. Twenty percent of safety cases reported in the private business sector occur in manufacturing environments, AllBusiness.com reports. About $1 billion is paid every week to injured workers and their medical providers, AllBusiness.com adds.
Five S
Five S is a safety program that focuses on organization and tidiness so that all work areas are orderly and standardized. Overall workplace cleanliness improves productivity and efficiency because workers are not wasting time searching for tools and supplies. The five S's represent Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain. This program requires cleanup of every work space and then ongoing follow-up so that daily neatness becomes a habit for every employee. This constant attention to housekeeping also ensures that any leaks, breakages, low fluid levels in machinery or other potential hazards are quickly identified and corrected. Cost of implementing a Five S program involves training and then manpower deployed in the initial wash down and reorganization of a facility.
PPE
Personal protection equipment (PPE) is a common industrial safety program. This covers mandatory use of protective gear such as goggles, respirators, hard hats or safety shoes depending upon the production facility. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to first outline potential hazards and then to identify gear that would protect its workforce. For instance, a factory safety program might identify machinists as being at risk because of noise or moving parts. The required PPE for those laborers could be earplugs or safety earmuffs to safeguard their hearing, as well as hair coverings to ensure that long tresses cannot get tangled in the moving equipment. Employers must furnish PPE to its workers and ensure that everyone complies with mandatory usage.
Lockout
OSHA requires manufacturing facilities to implement and enforce lockout and tagout safety programs that disengage the power supply to equipment and machines when they are being serviced. This prevents workers from becoming injured by the unexpected release of energy. Two features of a lockout safety program are that the lockout device identifies the worker who engaged it and only that person may disconnect the device. Employers have to ensure workers' safety not only when they are performing routine maintenance, but also during shift changes and repositioning or testing of equipment. New and used machinery must comply with the lockout or tagout policies. OSHA estimates that lockout and tagout factory safety programs eliminate 120 deaths and 50,000 injuries each year.
Five S
Five S is a safety program that focuses on organization and tidiness so that all work areas are orderly and standardized. Overall workplace cleanliness improves productivity and efficiency because workers are not wasting time searching for tools and supplies. The five S's represent Sort, Set In Order, Shine, Standardize and Sustain. This program requires cleanup of every work space and then ongoing follow-up so that daily neatness becomes a habit for every employee. This constant attention to housekeeping also ensures that any leaks, breakages, low fluid levels in machinery or other potential hazards are quickly identified and corrected. Cost of implementing a Five S program involves training and then manpower deployed in the initial wash down and reorganization of a facility.
PPE
Personal protection equipment (PPE) is a common industrial safety program. This covers mandatory use of protective gear such as goggles, respirators, hard hats or safety shoes depending upon the production facility. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to first outline potential hazards and then to identify gear that would protect its workforce. For instance, a factory safety program might identify machinists as being at risk because of noise or moving parts. The required PPE for those laborers could be earplugs or safety earmuffs to safeguard their hearing, as well as hair coverings to ensure that long tresses cannot get tangled in the moving equipment. Employers must furnish PPE to its workers and ensure that everyone complies with mandatory usage.
Lockout
OSHA requires manufacturing facilities to implement and enforce lockout and tagout safety programs that disengage the power supply to equipment and machines when they are being serviced. This prevents workers from becoming injured by the unexpected release of energy. Two features of a lockout safety program are that the lockout device identifies the worker who engaged it and only that person may disconnect the device. Employers have to ensure workers' safety not only when they are performing routine maintenance, but also during shift changes and repositioning or testing of equipment. New and used machinery must comply with the lockout or tagout policies. OSHA estimates that lockout and tagout factory safety programs eliminate 120 deaths and 50,000 injuries each year.
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