Category: Fab Shop Safety

Material Handling Equipment—Easier, not Necessarily Safer When a production shop gets advanced enough to automate the loading and unloading of parts and other material handling functions, a big load is taken off of the workers. While material handling machines may make work easier and faster, they don’t necessarily make it safer. In fact, knowing that […]

The Most Important Asset If you asked a fabricator to name the most important body parts required for their job, they likely would answer “hands.” After all, it’s difficult to use metalworking tools if you can’t hold or manipulate them. In a CNC world, however, more and more accommodations are becoming available for workers with […]

A Safe Shop Is a Productive Shop Some fabrication facilities will stress production above all other considerations. This often means not taking into account the fact that high production is a function of happy, satisfied workers possessing deep buy-in on the projects they are working while secure in a safe environment. A disgruntled worker might […]