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  SAFETY  

Industrial Diagnostics practices and promotes safe working procedures and encourages the same of all companies and individuals with which we engage in work and business activities.

All our engineering staff are provided with their own basic Personal Protective Equipment.
If your company site has particular safety or PPE requirements we will need to know this ahead of a site visit.

Job risk evaluation / hazard mitigation plans, and tool box meetings prior to the commencement of works are expected, to ensure all personnel engaged in the task are aware of the safe working plan and emergency response.

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LOTO and removal or nullification of all stored energy within the system is expected for safe working practice.

This is in accordance with the OSHA requirements. If you should wish further information on safe working practices and training, we are here to help with that too.




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 SAFETY TRAINING  

  We currently offer training in the following aspects of safety in the industrial production environment.  


Safety is an important aspect of workplace procedures which can too often be overlooked, requiring regular iteration and reinforcement amongst all employees. This is most important for personnel where the consequences are most severe, namely in the industrial environment. The employees working in the engineering and technical fields can succumb to the pressures of time and workload. This can lead to indifference to the hazards in the environment in which they work, leading to lax safety observance and the potential for accidents to occur.
The main aim of the presentation is to introduce safety from a technical point of view, as an engineering process. To this end an experienced engineer will present the subject matter in an interactive format, encouraging audience participation and discussion from a technical point of view and there by engaging the audience to maximise content retention.
To further increase subject retention, take-away materials will be provided to each participant for future reference.

SAFETY AT WORK

Most people think safety knowledge to be just common-sense, this is far from the truth.
In order to understand safety it has to be learned, either by experience or by training gained from other people's experience, just like anything else.
Learn and encourage those you work with to use safe methods and practices in the workplace.
It is in your own interest to ensure that you and those around you work safely.

HAND SAFETY

Your hands are one of the most complex moving parts of your body – the movement of the tendons, bones, tissues and nerves allows you to grip and do a wide variety of complex jobs.
Consider all the things you would no longer be able to do if you should loose fingers or parts of your hand.

Writing, dressing yourself, feeding yourself, opening a jar or bottle or even driving.

Most important of these might be your job.

EYE AND EAR SAFETY

Eye protection is the most immediate safety precaution that is thought of when considering personal protective equipment (PPE), because the failure to protect our eyes will usually have the most immediate and devastating loss we could suffer.
Hearing on the other hand, is the least considered as the loss is slow and barely perceptible over a long period of time. By the time it is noticed, it will be far too late to take any corrective action.
The damage is already done and is permanent. Sensitising and educating workers to both ear and eye safety is beneficial to their short and long term health.

BREATHING PROTECTION TYPES

There are two types of breathing protection; air supply and air filtration.

 Air Supply Type
Air supply provides the user with a supply of uncontaminated air either from a hose or a compressed air tank carried by the worker.

 Air Filtration Type
Filtration type removes the contaminates from the air before the wearer breathes it in.

This presentation covers the filtration type only

ISOLATION AND CONTROL OF HAZARDOUS ENERGY,
TO PREVENT INJURY OR DEATH

Hazardous energy can come in many forms and it is necessary to be able to identify all possible sources.
Hazardous energy can be both supplied and stored. Supplied energy must be isolated and stored energy must be released, blocked or bled.
This is to ensure hazardous energy is safely controlled and the people working on a machine or equipment are properly protected from harm.

HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL SAFETY

All chemicals should be properly labelled and shown the proper respect when being handled.
Handling chemical, particularly spills without the proper information can cause harmful effects to the human body and the environment.
The chemical hazard information is held in the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and should always be read and understood before the chemical is handled.
Some chemicals if mixed accidentally can give off toxic or noxious gases or spontaneously ignite or explode.


Contact us today to find out how Industrial Diagnostics can help you.