Know your OSHA obligations if COVID-19 strikes your business
Not all employers are bound by the recordkeeping and reporting requirements established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Generally, an employer must have more than 10 employees to be subject to those legal obligations, unless OSHA specifically instructs you otherwise. Your company also must be in an industry that’s considered hazardous, such as manufacturing, construction, utilities, agriculture, and...
Cost-effectively preventing Heavy Equipment Theft
Heavy equipment theft of everything from forklifts, skid steers, and trucks to bulldozers, backhoes, excavators, and wheel loaders can be a serious issue for business owners, whether at the rental yard or job site. Stealing batteries, catalytic converters, and entire vehicles can be a relatively low-risk, high-reward opportunity for thieves unless sufficient security equipment and procedures are in place. Equipment damage plus cut...
Innovation expedites Warehouse Logistics in the largest, most challenging Work Platforms
Warehouse OEMs and integrators can accelerate successful project completion of even increasingly complex, automated systems with advanced platforms The growth of e-commerce is driving warehouse, distribution, and fulfillment centers to utilize larger structures, automated systems, and engineered elevated work platforms that can deliver faster logistics and shipping. To accommodate the growing size and complexity of such systems,...
Welcome to ProMat DX
In these unprecedented times, supply chain solutions are more critical to business success than they have ever been. To answer this call, MHI created the ProMat Digital Experience (ProMatDX), a new digital event experience designed to power up manufacturing and supply chain professionals with critical access to the latest solutions they need now to improve resiliency and agility of their operations. ProMatDX combines the power of the...
Why we need to redefine Employee Engagement
If you Google “Employee Engagement” and look for images representing it, you’ll find groups of people in business attire smiling, high-fiving, laughing, or conducting some other staged behavior. While it may look a bit comical, somewhere in the recesses of our minds, we want to replicate this feeling with our own staff. We associated happiness with engagement, and often try to fill the void with a series of...
Job Shock: Solving the Pandemic & 2030 Employment Meltdown Part III: The Kids & Workers Are Not “All Right”
Many students and workers cannot accept the new reality that they are undereducated for many jobs in this decade’s labor market, let alone future ones! KNAPP has created a robot for warehouses with the dexterity to recognize and sort random items with 99 percent accuracy. Once such robots are put into operation, humans would continue to work alongside them, but the catch is that these workers will need a whole set of additional...
Job Shock Part II: Solving the pandemic & 2030 employment meltdown. What changed?
Would You Use a Videotape in a Blu-ray Disc Player? The days of semi-skilled blue-collar factory jobs are fast disappearing. These jobs once provided a 19-year-old high school graduate or drop-out with the wages and benefits needed to support a family with a middle-class standard of living. Thinking that working in low-skill manufacturing or service occupations will propel you into the middle-class today is as sensible as buying a...
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