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Designing Effective Product Safety Labels: Your Guide to Content

Designing product safety labels that help to prevent injuries and save lives is a multi-faceted task. This month, we’ll focus on another key element to consider: content. In the last column, we underscored t... Read More...

Effective Product Safety Labels: Your Guide to Symbols

Designing effective product safety labels that can help to prevent injuries and save lives is a complex task. This month, we’ll focus on one of the key elements to consider: symbols. One of the most fundamen... Read More...

Your Guide to Effective Product Safety Labels

Of all the responsibilities product engineers are tasked with, safety labeling cannot be overlooked. Why? Because the bottom line is: if safety matters, your labels matter. This month, we’ll explore the key ele... Read More...

OSHA’s New Safety Sign Ruling and Its Impact on Workplace Safety

In this column, we’ll discuss OSHA’s newly implemented update to rules on safety signage in the workplace – and how it’s raising the bar on safety communication. In the last On Your Mark column, we shared news... Read More...

OSHA Validates ANSI Product Safety Labeling Formats Through Update to Facility Safety Sign and Tag Regulations

In this column, we’ll discuss the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) newly proposed update to rules on safety signage in the workplace and how it validates the efforts of product design engi... Read More...

Kitting: Implementing a Systems Approach to Safety Label Inventory

In this column, we’ll discuss one way to carry out a systems approach to safety: label ‘kits’. You may recall that, in one of my prior articles in the On Your Mark series (“It’s Not a Bunch of Labels – It’s ... Read More...

Guarding Labels

In this column, we’ll explore the importance of guards on products and machinery, and the best practices to be considered when it comes to labeling to improve safety and reduce liability. Guards. Switches. L... Read More...

It’s Not a Bunch of Labels – It’s a System

In this column, we’ll explore how the safety labels you use on your products should function as a system in order to most effectively improve safety and reduce liability. As a professional in the electrical ... Read More...

Symbol Standardization: There’s No Need to Reinvent the Wheel

In this column, we’ll explore the need for standardized elements and components in symbols in order to effectively communicate safety. As a professional in the engineering field, a primary concern you’re fac... Read More...

Alligator Signs and Your Warnings

In this column, we’ll explore the importance of being aware of accidents occurring within your industry, in order to better meet your legal duty to warn. We all know it: accidents happen. When it comes to effec... Read More...

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