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    5sToday:Providing The

    Best Safety

    Features For You

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    Table Of Contents

    Why Your Business Can Benefit From Safety

    Training Videos

    3

    Why Businesses Should Choose Pre-Printed 5s Red

    Tags

    5

    Seven Fun And Creative Uses For Floor Marking

    Tape

    7

    Using A Floor Sign As Constant Reminder To Be

    Careful

    9

    Why You Should Invest In An Industrial Label

    Maker For Your Business

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    Why Your Business Can Benefit From Safety Training

    Videos

    Safety is an issue that affects all kinds ofbusinesses, no matter the industry. Of course,

    some industries will be more susceptible to risky

    situations such as companies that deal with

    construction, manufacturing, or oil and gas.

    However, corporate environments can still be

    vulnerable to certain hazards. In order to ensure

    that all employees and surrounding communities

    are protected, and the business operates withoutinterruption, companies need to come up with

    their own safety training programs.

    Beyond the Safety Signs

    Safety training programs will vary with the unique operational requirements of

    every business. This means that emergency procedures, precautionary measures,

    and protocols for working around certain work areas will be different. And it can

    be tough for many employees to process every piece of important information

    from a thick safety manual. Placing safety signs around the workplace, while helpful

    in reminding workers of certain precautions to take, will not be enough either to

    ensure a healthy and safe working environment.

    This is why safety training videos need to be included as one of the effective ways

    of communicating the safety program and procedures of the company. Videos are

    fairly successful in capturing and maintaining employee attention, which means

    workers are able to digest the information they need in order to perform their taskssafely. People are much more receptive to getting information through imagery as

    opposed to when it is in written format.

    Saving Money and Business Protection

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    By using a safety training video, your company can communicate its unique rules

    and regulations to keep the workplace safe. You can illustrate your emergency

    procedures for specific situations. You can better demonstrate how specialized

    equipment should be operated in a safe manner. This means that the safety

    training video, whether it is specific to emergency procedures or about proper

    equipment handling, can be used repeatedly. Instead of designating a trainer and

    spending on training seminars, you can just use your safety training video for new

    employees.

    But other than saving costs on training to deliver your safety program, the videos

    you have can also protect your company against liabilities. Insurance firms may use

    your library of videos to prove that you have done all that you can to keep your

    workers informed and trained so that they remain safe while carrying out theirresponsibilities in the workplace.

    Safety training is critical to the success of any business. When employees are

    protected against hazards and the company is shielded against risks, the business

    can operate without interruption and ensure that profits are made. By using

    engaging and informative videos to deliver your companys safety programs, you

    enable your employees to better recognize unsafe conditions and teach them to

    act according to your safety rules and regulations.

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    Why Businesses Should Choose Pre-Printed 5S Red Tags

    Efficiency, safety, and profitability

    these are the intended results from any

    businesss 5S program. The 5S program

    was conceptualized in Japan, and the

    5S stands for seiri (tidiness), seiton

    (orderliness), seiso (cleanliness),

    seiketsu (standardization), and

    shitsuke (discipline). From a

    manufacturing plant to an auto shop,

    every business uses the basic and fundamental systematic method towards

    improving safety, productivity, and profitability. And one of its critical aspects is in

    the sorting phase, which is when redundant items are marked for removal from any

    work area.

    Seeing Red

    To facilitate the quick and easy removal of unnecessary items from old machines

    that are not being used anymore to auto body shop wastes businesses need to

    use a visual management tool like red tags. Red tags make it easy to get a work areacleaned up and organized. When a work area is tidy and everything is in its proper

    place, workers will naturally be more productive, the quality of service will

    undoubtedly improve, accidents will be avoided, and the business can immediately

    resolve any serious issues in the workflow and prevent future production problems

    in the process.

    While it sounds pretty straightforward enough to put a red tag on unused items in

    work areas, businesses that merely put tape in the back of red construction paper

    might risk looking unprofessional. The crude, homemade 5S red tag may also

    indicate the businesss lack of commitment to its system of continual improvement.

    Moreover, it is likely that the adhesive on the tape may wear off and the red tag

    could easily fall off.

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    Marked for Success

    Instead of relying on DIY red tags, businesses should consider using pre-printed 5S

    red tags that also come in varying styles. There are pre-wired red tags, which make

    it more convenient to attach to items that need to be removed from work areas.There are red tags with built-in adhesives, which make it easier to stick on to certain

    items that do not have a good tie-point for strings or wires. These pre-printed red

    tags are also designed to stay on for as long as they are needed and contain enough

    space for required and additional information.

    A work area that is overrun by unused items, waste materials, and other redundant

    pieces will be vulnerable to disorganization, accidents, and other workflow

    problems that spell extra costs for the business. By implementing the 5S program

    and using professional and reliable red tags as a visual management tool, a business

    is more than likely to succeed in maintaining an efficient, safe, and profitable

    operation.

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    Seven Fun And Creative Uses For Floor Marking Tape

    So youre already done with the home

    reno-recon project, but you still have a

    lot of excess materials that you want to

    put to good use while youre still feeling

    creative. Well, there are numerous ideas

    available that you can try and you can

    devote a couple of hours or an entire

    weekend trying all these ideas out,

    delighting in the process of making

    things more functional and enjoyable by using these excess materials you have

    from your home renovation project.

    From these materials, you can start off your special DIY projects with your

    collection of colorful floor marking tape (that you really just used to mark where

    certain elements for your home renovation project were to go). Provided below are

    seven ideas you can try either to continue with your home enhancement project or

    just to create something fun for a special occasion.

    1. If you have children who love to play hopscotch, you can choose a spaciousarea inside or outside your house and create an elaborate hopscotch pattern.

    Whats better about using floor marking tape is that it doesnt get erased when the

    young ones accidentally step on it, and you can combine different colors for a

    better visual appeal.

    2. Upcycle plain furniture like wood chairs and benches. You can create stripes,

    a gingham pattern or even a weave (if youre really patient) using the tape.

    3. Make instant picture frames. Floor marking tape doesnt only stick to thefloor; it also adheres to walls and ceilings structures you may want to stick some

    pictures to. You achieve a nicer display for these pictures by putting themin peel-

    able frames that come in really nice colors.

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    4. Create faux tiles for plain floors and conceal some blemishes at the same

    time. Using the applicator, you can stick straight lines and create perfect rectangles

    and squares to achieve a new look for your floors.

    5. Create nice borders for doors, windows, ceilings, floors, and walls. Bordersare just straight lines most of the time and the cool advantage about using floor

    marking tape is that should you get tired of the look, you can just peel it off and

    come up with a new one.

    6. For Halloween (which is just around the corner), Family Fun magazine offers

    the idea of creating a highway costume for the little ones. With a grey sweatshirt

    and sweatpants, stick the tape on the sweats, then pin some matchbox cars and

    voila! A highway with cars!

    7. Use it to make cheap wall decals. Some DIY gurus create tree branches with

    the tape then attach push pins to the branches from which you can hang

    accessories or other ornaments.

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    Using A Floor Sign As A Constant Reminder To Be

    Careful

    Whether youre at home or at yourwork place, its important to be extra

    careful. But sometimes, its hard to

    rely on your memory to remember

    certain warnings (especially since

    there are just so many things to think

    about) to ensure your own personal

    safety. What you can do is to put up

    viewable reminders in strategic placesso you would always be guided on

    how youre supposed to behave or what youre supposed to do.

    At home, you may put up a white memo board and you can just write the important

    reminders for the day, such as to use a towel when opening the refrigerator door

    because the handle is gives off a slight electric buzz, or not to use the kitchen tap

    because the plumber has not fixed it yet, and such. Using a whiteboard for memos

    and other reminders is quite effective and you can easily change the remindersevery day. Now, if you want something more colorful, post-its or sticky notes are

    good alternatives, but you will be consuming a lot of paper if you constantly need

    to change reminders. But for tasks to be accomplished regularly or things to be

    followed all the time, sticker signs you can stick to walls or floors are the best

    options they do not get erased either, so thats an extra benefit you get.

    In the workplace, on the other hand, theres a need for eye-catching signage to

    make sure that important reminders or warnings are hard to miss. A floor sign is

    particularly effective because its often made with meaningful images that not only

    present the warning, but also sometimes the consequences of ignoring the

    warning.

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    These days, floor signs are very easy to customize and makers actually offer a

    variety of great designs either to increase efficacy or even to support the aesthetic

    sensibilities of the buyers. If you wish to use lots of signage and assign a specific

    color or even font to enhance the recognizability of the sign (even if people do not

    get to read the written content instantly), sign makers can provide you the best

    color options and fonts for this purpose. Lastly, they even take in requests for very

    specific signs for personal use; since a lot of people like the industrial look of floor

    signs and the pop of color they provide to plain floors, sign makers enjoy the

    additional demand and the request for them to stretch their design chops.

    Therefore, if you need to have reliable and effective reminders of the things that

    you should be careful or mindful of, floor signs with the message that applies to

    you are definitely worth buying.

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    Why You Should Invest In An Industrial Label Maker For

    Your Business

    Many business professionals and expertshave long looked up to Japan and its

    impressive growth in the last few

    decades. Apart from being a key player in

    the global and political arena, the

    Japanese have been known for

    implementing various key concepts

    pertaining to management and

    productivity.

    One of these key concepts is the 5S process, which means Seiri, Seiton, Seiso,

    Seiketsu and Shitsuke. In English, this translates to tidiness, orderliness, cleanliness,

    standardization and discipline or, in some translations, sorting, setting in order

    to flow, systematic cleaning, standardizing and sustaining. The overall goal of the

    5S process is to create a safer, more efficient and more productive workplace.

    Another important benefit gleaned from this process is the boost in employee

    morale among a business's staff members.

    In the Western context, these principles can be achieved in quite a number of ways

    including providing training, outlining the role of each individual, defining each

    workspace properly and even floor marking. With an industrial label maker, you

    can easily satisfy the requirements set forth by the Occupational Safety and Health

    Administration (OSHA) and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

    But apart from complying with the recommendations of OSHA and ANSI, marking

    floors can enable your business to save time and money as well as boost safety inthe workplace.

    According to OSHA, permanent aisles and passageways should be marked. The

    ANSI Z535.2 Safety Color Code, on the other hand, has designated the color yellow

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    as a caution color and should be used in areas where your personnel may stumble,

    fall or trip. While you can paint specific areas in the work area, paint has a tendency

    to chip and peel overtime, especially in areas where there is heavy foot traffic.

    A good industrial label maker is versatile enough to be used either on the factoryfloor or in the office for 5S, lean and pipe marking, making it a good investment.

    Instead of outsourcing your labelling needs, you can print your own labels, saving

    your business both time and money. These printers can produce labels of varying

    lengths and widths which can withstand the elements as well as chemicals and daily

    wear.

    When shopping for a printer, opt for those which will work well with the software

    installed on your office computer, be it a word processing tool or desktop layout

    software, to enable you to cut the learning curve required to operate it.

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