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Be Safe on the Assembly Line

August 5, 2022

On June 6, 51-year-old welder Quoc Le died at a railcar assembly plant in Hamilton, ON, Canada, after a 1-ton bulkhead fell on him. Shockingly, it was the third fatal accident at the factory, which is owned by National Steel Car, in the past 21 months.

TE Connectivity Signs Agreement With Phoenix Contact for Relay Product Line

December 30, 2021

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland—TE Connectivity has acquired the force-guided narrow safety relay from the Phoenix Contact Group as part of a long-term partnership agreement.

UL Joins AV Safety Initiative

July 2, 2021

NORTHBROOK, IL—Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has joined the World Economic Forum’s Safe Drive Initiative, a new program created to assist autonomous vehicle development.

Sensors for Working Safely With Robots

Human-robot collaboration is driving demand for new technology.

Austin Weber

June 3, 2021

Traditionally, robots have worked alone inside safety cages or fences. But, more applications on assembly lines today require humans and machines to work in close proximity.

Ford to Restart Operations with Enhanced Safety Protocols

May 11, 2020

DEARBORN, MI — Ford is targeting a phased restart for its North America operations beginning May 18.

COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis Solution for Offered for Free

March 24, 2020

SASKATOON, Canada — SafetyTek is offering its COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis, an extension of the cloud-based Workplace Safety Engagement Platform, to organizations providing essential services.

Process Enhancements for Constraining Threaded Fasteners

August 28, 2019

The process of installing Safety Wire remains awkward and costly, and the inspection process is demanding.

America’s Most Destructive Industrial Fire

When an inferno destroyed General Motors’ transmission factory in Livonia, MI, it plunged the automaker into a monumental crisis.

Tim Trainor

May 8, 2019

When General Motors opened the Detroit Transmission plant in Livonia, MI, in 1949, the 1.5-million-square-foot facility sym-bolized the resounding success of the most popular component in American automobiles—the Hydra-Matic Drive transmis-sion.

OSHA Cites Firearms Assembler After Employee Loses Fingertip

April 8, 2019

ILION, NY—Remington Arms was cited for more than two dozen violations of workplace safety and health standards—and fined more than $200,000 as a result—after an employee’s fingertip was amputated while working at the company’s assembly plant here.

UL Allows Online Access to Entire Catalog of Safety Standards

February 26, 2019

NORTHBROOK, IL—Last week, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. announced that it now offers open-access online views of its entire library of UL Safety Standards for any interested individual or organization.