Safety Label Importance at Sturtevant, Inc.
Posted by Clarion Safety Systems | 7th Jun 2019
The Need for Best Practice Labels on Today’s
Products
In today’s workplaces, labels on equipment and signage within the workplace are a key component in
communicating about hazards and mitigating risk. Yet, companies often struggle with
keeping labels and signs up-to-date and consistent. Without effective warnings in
place – ones that comply with
OSHA/ANSI/ISO and effectively reinforce safe
behavior – the lives of your workers could be at risk.
Lack of Safety Labels for Dangerous Machinery
Sturtevant, Inc., is a material-processing equipment manufacturer that builds
crushing, grinding and air classification equipment to be used at food,
pharmaceutical, chemical and mineral industries. The machines they build and create
for these industries are very dangerous. For example, some of the machines are
meant to crush materials such as rocks which can have dire consequences if
people interact with the machines in unsafe ways. Sturtevant chose Clarion
Safety to create
best practice labels to help warn their
product users of the dangers these machines could pose, all in the effort to increase safety.
Clarion Safety’s Fix: A Standards-Compliant, Harmonized Label Format
Through Clarion Safety's expertise with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Clarion Safety created a harmonized
label format for Sturtevant, Inc. This harmonized label format included
best
practice designs and graphical symbols to help Sturtevant warn their food,
pharmaceutical, chemical and mineral industries of the possible risks when using
equipment. Clarion Safety's team provided standards-compliant labels that are not only visually
effective for Sturtevant when warning, but also cost effective for them.
How Clarion Safety Can Help Your Business
For over 25 years, Clarion Safety has been at
the top of the field of visual safety communication. Clarion Safety is a long-term leader of the best practice ANSI and ISO standards – and Clarion Safety will use that knowledge to
help you warn as effectively as possible. With 15,000+ clients and nearly 100
million signs and labels in use, zero Clarion Safety customers have had
warning-based allegations brought against them.
We will work with you every step of the way – from planning, to implementation and beyond – to come up with customized, holistic risk management solutions that take the unique hazards of your industry or work environment into account.
See how Clarion Safety’s best practice, standards-compliant safety systems can help increase safety and reduce liability at your facility. Contact us today!