With June being National Safety Month, you want to continue to provide your employees with daily safety refreshers and reminders. Although safety should be a priority within any organization, it is especially important for manufacturing facilities.

Working with tools, equipment, and heavy machinery involves increased hazards that can lead to accidents, injuries, and illnesses. As a result, daily safety refreshers and reminders are essential.

Providing a safe work environment increases employee engagement, performance, and productivity. It also elevates job satisfaction, employee morale, and retention rates. These factors impact the bottom line.

Implement these ideas to provide your employees with daily safety refreshers and reminders.

Wearing Personal Protective Equipment

Proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) helps maintain safety. As a result, consider sharing these safety refreshers and reminders with your employees:

• Wear the proper safety goggles, gas masks, gloves, hazmat suits, footwear, or other PPE to complete a task.
• Understand how to properly use PPE.
• Ask a supervisor for help with the PPE if needed.

Using Tools, Equipment, and Machinery

Manufacturing tools, equipment, and machinery pose some of the top risks in a manufacturing facility. Therefore, you should provide these daily safety refreshers and reminders for your team:

• Inspect the tools, equipment, or machinery before use.
• Use the tools, equipment, and machinery for the intended purpose.
• Operate the tools, equipment, and machinery in the instructed manner.
• Properly clean and store the equipment.
• Notify a supervisor if any tools, equipment, or machinery maintenance or repairs are needed.

Minimizing Trips, Slips, and Falls

Trips, slips, and falls are among the top causes of workplace injuries that can result in worker’s compensation and disability insurance claims. Fortunately, you can reduce the frequency of these injuries with the following safety refreshers and reminders:

• Immediately wipe up spills to keep the floor dry.
• Ensure cords are against a wall rather than in a work area.
• Keep the work area free of clutter.

Operating Forklifts

Forklifts can lead to accidents and injuries for the operator and/or coworkers. As a result, you should share these safety refreshers and reminders with your employees:

• Inspect a forklift before use.
• Examine the tires, oil, and brakes before operation.
• Balance the load.
• Follow the speed limits.
• Look in the direction of travel.
• Maintain a safe distance from others.

Reporting Incidents

All incidents must be reported, documented, and investigated. These actions increase efficiency in handling injuries, reduce the number of future injuries, and lower the long-term costs related to workplace injuries. Therefore, these safety refreshers and reminders are essential:

• Ensure the incident reporting process is fast and easy so your employees use it.
• Ask your team questions about the company’s policies and procedures for reporting incidents to check your employees’ understanding.
• Thoroughly document incidents with dates, times, names, witness statements, photos and/or videos, and other relevant details.
• Ensure incident reports are investigated and followed up on.
• Share with your team the results of each investigation and its impact on the organization’s safety.

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