Plant Managers – Friday Plant Walk – Compressed Air Safety
How is your compressed air safety? If you’re in a manufacturing plant, you use compressed air. It’s used to operate all kinds of equipment, for material conveying (dense phase or dilute), and for cleaning. As you’re walking today, look and LISTEN. Are you hearing air leaks? Especially when your equipment is down and you still…
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Plant Managers – Friday Plant Walk – Let’s take this outside!
So, let’s take a look at the outside of your manufacturing plant. How is your site security? The high today in Burleson is only 96° – practically a cold spell, so it’s a good day for it. Is there a fence around your site? If so, lucky you. Do the gates stay closed most of…
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Plant Managers – Friday Plant Walk – Electrical Safety
“Electrical safety? Are you asking me to go watch my electricians? I don’t think those guys like me.” No. The work they do is a whole other post. This post is about general electrical safety. The stuff we walk by every day and don’t notice. Is “eye blind” a term? Like “nose blind”? WARNING –…
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How to Start Lettuce Seeds in Rockwool
Here’s how I successfully started lettuce seeds in rockwool cubes, after a couple of failures because I got complacent. Starting seeds in rockwool should be easy, right? When I started doing hydroponics a few years back, I think I just got lucky – everything I planted germinated on the first try. Over time, I got…
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Plant Managers – Friday Plant Walk – Contractor Safety
Today’s walk-through talks about contractor safety and setting expectations. Do this one early in the day. I’m not saying your contractors knock off early on Fridays, but – do this one early. Do you have contractors working in your plant? Installing equipment, doing upgrades, or repairs? Do they follow the same safety rules as your…
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