Case Study: When Safety Issues Pile Up, It Could Mean Closing Your Doors
When safety procedure failures begin to pile up it gets even more difficult to get out from under them, as a Texas based creamery just found out first hand.
Demands don’t stop for lost fingers, threats of contamination or broken down/ non existent lockout procedures.
When you are a smaller company on the cusp of hitting it big, the last thing you want to do is shut down production for maintenance, or for any reason really. As stress and the pressure of producing builds there is no time for new hires to get their proper fill of training and small clogs become a game of chance with workers taking matters into their own hands in between machine rotations.
No matter how much experience your workforce has, in this case over 210 years combined, without the proper safety precautions in place, it is only a matter of time before MANY workers come out on the losing end.
A company can only go on for so long before OSHA takes notice, fines are handed out in abundance and health inspections are failed.
Empowering your workers with the knowledge they need to complete their job correctly without incident, empowers your company to thrive long term, not just until the wheels fall off.