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Honeywell website creates customized hard hats in 4 steps

Honeywell launched Build Your Own Hat, a Web-based application that lets safety managers customize their company’s hard hats in four steps. Users are asked to select the style of hat, choose a color, specify a suspension and upload a logo… Keep Reading

Why 2014 is the year of the workers’ voice

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MSHA has recently expressed concern about fatalities in the aggregates industry and about employees taking risks by not focusing on potential consequences. The agency has emphasized that fundamental procedures, such as locking out and blocking equipment, are indispensable to preventing… Keep Reading

6 steps to streamline mobile processing

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Six simple solutions to enhance culture, improve safety and increase profits. Have you ever found yourself waiting impatiently at a traffic light when there were clearly no cars coming in the other direction? Do you ever find yourself looking for… Keep Reading

Blasting, explosives safety seminar set for September

RAM Inc. will hold its annual two-and-a-half day fall Blasting and Explosives Safety Training (BEST) Seminar at the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, S.D., Sept. 3-5. The continuing education course will include in-class training as well as… Keep Reading

MSHA issues 147 citations in April impact inspections

MSHA says federal inspectors issued 147 citations and 15 orders in April during special impact inspections of 12 coal mines and four metal and nonmetal mines. Mines subject to monthly inspections merit increased attention and enforcement because of poor compliance… Keep Reading

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MSHA to conduct on-site discussions to help prevent fatalities

MSHA says it will conduct on-site safety discussions with miners and mine operators across the country in an effort to halt fatal mining accidents. Twenty miners -- including six supervisors – died in metal and nonmetal mining accidents since October… Keep Reading

MSHA explores factors involved in latest fatal accidents

MSHA held a summit for training professionals May 22 to discuss causes of the 20 metal and nonmetal mining deaths that have occurred since October 2013. MSHA determined several causes were at the root of the accidents, including failure to… Keep Reading

Safety leadership

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Aggregate site superintendents can coach supervisors and managers into promoting better safety practices. From the senior-most level to the front lines, people in the mining industry share a great value for safety. Despite this common ground, safety results don’t always… Keep Reading

Idea from space inspires new way to reduce carbon emissions, fuel

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Less carbon emissions means a more environmentally friendly way to drill, and less fuel use means cost savings. You’re kicked back in your favorite recliner, watching a documentary on the Space Shuttle and suddenly they’re talking about on-board pneumatic systems.… Keep Reading

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