Personal protective equipment compliance depends on timely verification that workers are wearing the required PPE before exposure to a hazard occurs. Traditionally, this verification has relied on supervisors, safety officers, or camera operators observing workers…
An EHS team can hit its target injury rate for an entire year and still be one bad shift away from a serious incident. That gap between what the numbers show and what is actually…
Are you looking for a way to manage workplace safety and reduce the risks associated with working at height? Soft Designers provides a comprehensive solution that can help you better monitor and manage your safety…
Kanban: Learn how to use this method to streamline your production process: Kanban is a visual system of project management and manufacturing process optimization. It is a popular system used in Lean Manufacturing and is…
Safety audits are one of the few tools that tell an organization the truth about its own operations. Inspections catch conditions in the moment, incident reports react to what already went wrong, but a safety…
Health and safety management system – Organizations try to reduce the issues related to safety and health hazards through EHS programs at the workplace. These programs attempt to identify, assess, and control workplace hazards, as…
Defining the Permit to Work A Permit to Work (PTW) is a formal document authorizing specific work, typically higher-risk work such as hot work, confined space entry, electrical isolation, work at height, or excavation. It…
Smart Factory overview: A smart factory or Digitalising a manufacturing plant brings with it numerous benefits that affect the planning, quality, and development of products and logistics in the supply chain. Here are the most…
Smart factory industry Overview: For a “traditional” industry to become a Smart Factory, it mostly requires the involvement and motivation of the company management to have a vision towards digitization, as well as professionally knowledgeable…
Before we focus on the intricacies of the smart factory, by way of introduction, a few words must be said about its underlying concept, the Industrial Internet of Things. The term describes a highly digitalized…
