Articles Tagged with ''worker safety''

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic offers no threat to the safety of ingredients or finished food and beverage products, as it is a fragile virus that can’t stand up to cooking temperatures or the industry’s already rigid cleaning and sanitation requirements. But the pandemic does present challenges for worker safety, and processors must be proactive in addressing those challenges in an effective way.

Designed to work with any piece of equipment from 200 to 500 V, this lockout/tagout system (LOTOS) replaces standard disconnect operations on processing equipment.

The Witte cover lift davit system is designed for full access to the entire interior via manual winch to promote complete cleaning, thorough visual inspection and speedy maintenance with reduced downtime.

The F3SG-SR Series is made to help manufacturers comply with global safety standards and reduce complexity and setup time by minimizing wiring connections.

The UniFlow CE AireStream fume hood has a vector slotted rear baffle system.

The Wildeck Pallet Drop Zone safety gate protects workers accessing large pallet loads at elevated levels.

While robots are taking over dangerous jobs in newer automated meat and poultry plants, the rest still use mostly manual labor.

OSHA reports an increase in recent years in the reporting of cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) and other work-related disorders due to ergonomic hazards, which are physical conditions that can pose risk of injury to the musculoskeletal system.

The Tri-Mer wet odor control scrubber eliminates difficult odors, including hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan, dimethyl sulfide, carbon disulfide and n-propyl mercaptan.