Plastics manufacturers
“Plastics” was the one-word advice once given to a famous graduate, and it’s still good advice today: the plastic products manufacturing industry accounts for more than $300 billion in revenue and employs nearly a million workers, according to SPI, the Plastics Industry Trade Association.It’s also an industry that must be concerned that certain risks could slow—or halt—that revenue. At Hanover Risk Solutions, we have focused programs that zero in on whatever most concerns you: the health and safety of workers, electrical fire prevention, or keeping your business going when weather threatens to slow it down.
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Basics of machine safeguarding
Machine injuries are likely the most common in almost any manufacturing industry. They sideline employees, burden their families, and cause stress for both employers and employees. They also slow the production line and raise an important concern: how to keep them from happening again. Learning the basics of how machines can injure workers and how to protect them is key. Hanover can help.
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Fire protection impairment management checklist
Fire losses are among the most frightening – and most costly – for manufacturing, but fire protection systems can help. When those systems are down, businesses face critical periods of risk that need to be managed carefully. This handy checklist can aid your vigilance when those systems are offline and help keep those risks in check.
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Sample personal protective equipment hazard assessment certification form
Knowing what the hazards are is the first step; finding the equipment that can protect your employees from injury and illness is the next one. Assessing the hazards they face can help your business make the right calls when it comes to providing the correct personal protective equipment (PPE) for your crews.
Resources
Risk Solutions Partners
Hanover has partnered with other expert safety professionals to provide our customers with discounted solutions to costly problems. Your company's safety officers may find these especially helpful:
- HSB’s IoT Sensors for Business can help protect your property from moisture damage, 24/7, with an easy-to-install system that monitors temperatures and moisture to help pinpoint problems before they destroy property.
- The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) Disaster Recovery Planning can help you plan for the worst and get your business up and running when catastrophe strikes
- Testing and inspection of alarm systems and 24/7 monitoring as well as testing and inspection of automatic sprinkler systems with Tyco Simplex Grinnell
Education and training
- Take an online course at your convenience; view our online electrical preventive maintenance video to see how you can stop problems before they stop your business.
- The Hanover Driver Safety Advantage Program offers driver training courses through a national provider of online training, available to your employees wherever they may be.
- Additional driver training courses and 197 OSHA Essential/General Safety courses are available at a discount through Driver's Alert. Visit the training section on Risk Solutions Partners.
Related Links
- OSHA Plastics Industry Page
- Ergonomics for the Plastics Industry, Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation
- Society of the Plastics Industry Worker Health & Safety Resources
- Phthalates Information from Consumer Product Safety Commission