Shop Floor Safety — A Cause for Concern

“From a safety perspective, we’re going backwards fast as an industry,” he remarks. “The scary thing is, it’s not isolated to any one particular type of activity. The commonality is they’re all equipment related.”

Deaths aren’t the only problem. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has identified printing as a “high hazard” industry for amputations. And while it may only be an unhappy coincidence, an unusually high amount of fires have struck printing establishments in the past year, the safety expert notes.