TO THE POINT blog
Stay up-to-date with industry updates, professional development trends, safety tips and more from IES expertsManufacturing Update News: April 2020
AI Could Improve Sustainability Through Smart Recycling Sorting The US is the #1 waste producing country in the world. Would you practice recycling if it was easier? Lessening the amount of waste in landfills and the ocean largely depends on how US manufacturers...
Focus On…Spring Cleaning: Keeping your Work Site Clean
Cleanliness is often synonymous with safety. Clutter-free work areas allow you and your team to focus on the tasks at hand with the ability to move freely without fear of injury or incident. Maintaining clean and organized work conditions may also save your...
Trainer Toolbox March 2020
Eliminating Amputation Hazards OSHA Issues Corrections to Standards Trenching and Excavation Safety Eliminating Amputation Hazards The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) cites more than 20,000 American workers experience injuries involving amputation every year....
MESHage…Getting Better With Age. Well, Maybe Not the Knees.
My daughter’s 18th birthday was last week and while she was blowing out the candles, all I could think was that in the eyes of the law, she is now officially an “adult,” with all the associated rights and privileges. My baby girl no longer needs her mama. She can...
Announcing New IES Solutions for Achieving a High-Performance Culture
Are you struggling with getting employees to adopt workplace safety standards and practices? Are projects falling behind or threatened by a "culture of silence" about key concerns or issues within your organization? Do you have employees that struggle with "blowing...
Bringing Safety into Focus. 20/20.
It is 2020. I just got through worrying about rolling over from 1999 to “Y2K.” Remember the chaos that created? Stern warnings from techno geeks around the globe that desktop computers would not start up on January 1. Call me crazy, but I was more concerned about how...
Trainer Toolbox for January 2020
Radiation Safety. Understanding OSHA Inspections. Protecting Workers’ Hearing. Revision to OSHA's Beryllium Standards. Radiation Safety The negative health effects of long-term radiation exposure have been widely known. Radiation can cause damage to your DNA...
Focus On…Practical Workplace Safety Apps
2020 sounds so futuristic and when you think about it, technology has come a long way from what it was 30 years ago. We have Amazon’s Alexa to help us control our home’s electronics, and touch screen tablets that were only figments of sci-fi imagination 30 years ago....
Twitter News
How 3M Plans to Make More Than a Billion Masks By End of Year twitter.com/MAPI_Mfg_info/…
