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Management
What Are EV Pedestals? Understanding EV Charger Support Equipment
If the nations of the world keep their current transportation and energy policies, the global fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) will grow to 145 million units by the end of the decade. If many governments adopt certain sustainability initiatives, the fleet could grow to 230 million vehicles by 2030. That will be around 12 percent of all vehicles, everywhere.
Custom Electrician Equipment: Material Handling Solutions Built to Spec
Electrical wholesalers face unique material handling challenges that require unique material handling solutions. Your standard utility cart is useless in the face of light fixtures, wire coils, or bundles of rigid conduit. An unmodified forklift can’t lift a loaded steel cable reel.
A Systems Approach to Material Handling Integration
Material handling equipment doesn’t operate in a vacuum. A forklift is only useful to the degree that it interacts with the things and people around it: operators, loads, other material handling equipment, the physical layout of your facility, and more. To get the most value out of material handling costs, then, it may not be enough to simply buy a new machine. You also need a plan for integrating new solutions into your overarching material flow.
Food and Beverage Pallet Loads Are Changing; Here's How DCs Can Adapt
Supply chain disruption wasn’t just a pandemic phenomenon, as it turns out. As the world transitions to its new, post(ish)-pandemic normal, grocery leaders continue to worry about keeping food on the shelves. In fact, the industry’s concern has only grown as the pandemic has receded.
EV Charger Cable Management: Can You Use Forklift Cable Retractors?
Across industries, fleet managers are making plans for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. They may be municipalities converting bus fleets to electric; distributors upgrading delivery fleets; or manufacturers switching trucks or material handling vehicles to run on electricity. These managers of industrial EV fleets may already be familiar with a decades-old electric vehicle technology: Forklifts.
Reducing Electrical Material Loss: 5 Wholesaler Strategies
Loss of electrical materials at a job site isn’t just the contractor’s problem. If electrical wholesalers don’t package or prepare orders adequately, these products are more vulnerable to damage and theft. With enough lost product, electrical contractors may start looking for a new supplier.
The 2022-2027 OSHA Warehouse Safety Program: What Employers Should Know
In 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that the injury rate in warehousing was significantly higher than the average for all industries: 4.8 injuries per 100 workers in warehousing and storage, versus 2.7 per 100 for all industries combined. In an effort to improve warehouse safety and bring down these injury rates, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a five-year initiative beginning in August 2022. It’s called the Regional Emphasis Program (REP) for Warehousing Operation.
OSHA Recordable Events and Reportable Incidents: Know the Differences
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires most employers to record workplace injuries and illnesses. (Some relatively safe industries, and small businesses with fewer than 11 employees, are exempt from OSHA record-keeping rules.) But OSHA has different requirements for different types of injuries.
What Training Does OSHA Require? An OSHA Training FAQ
When Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspectors investigate a workplace injury, they ask a lot of questions. One of the first is always, “Was the employee properly trained?”
Proactive Ergonomics Saves Money; Here’s How to Get Started
Proactive ergonomics improves workplace safety, but that’s just one of the benefits. It can also cut costs to help your business grow.