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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 11
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Why Your Business Can Benefit From Safety Training Videos

Safety is an issue that affects all kinds of businesses, 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 without interruption, 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 tasks safely. 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 their responsibilities 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. To watch more safety training videos, visit http://www.5stoday.com/

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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 area cleaned 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. Visit http://www.5stoday.com/ to find different choices of 5s red tags.

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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 spacious area 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 the floor; 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 them in peelable 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. Borders are 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. To find quality floor marking tape, visit 5s Today.

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Using A Floor Sign As A Constant Reminder To Be Careful

Whether youre at home or at your work 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 places so 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 reminders every 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. Check out 5s Today for their selection of floor signs.

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Why You Should Invest In An Industrial Label Maker For Your Business
Many business professionals and experts have 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 in the 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 factory floor 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. Visit http://www.5stoday.com/ for more details.

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