Safety 2021: Elevate Your Standards

Michelle MachenMauser News, Safety

At Mauser Packaging Solutions, you—our dedicated employees—are our biggest asset, and it is our responsibility to ensure that you go home to your family and loved ones safe and healthy every day. Safety is a cooperative undertaking requiring an ever-present safety consciousness on the part of every employee. Only through cooperative efforts, can a safety culture that is in the …

Renewing Our Commitment to Safety

Michelle MachenMauser News, Safety

At Mauser Packaging Solutions, our dedicated workers are our biggest asset. It is our ethical responsibility to ensure that each employee goes home safe and unharmed, every day. As our CEO, Mark Burgess, communicated earlier this week in his 2021 kick off message, we are issuing a revised a Global Health and Safety Policy that outlines the Company’s commitment to …

Life Saving Rules: Hazardous Materials

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Industrial Solutions, Safety, Small Packaging

Life Saving Rules are essential safety principles that when followed, will protect employees from serious injury or death. These rules were developed around hazards specific to Mauser Packaging Solutions and are focused, clear and simple, actionable, and observable.HAZARDOUS MATERIALSWhat is Chemical Exposure? Everything is made of chemicals including the food we eat, the water we drink, the clothes we wear …

Life Saving Rules: Fall Protection

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Industrial Solutions, Safety

Life Saving Rules are essential safety principles that when followed, will protect employees from serious injury or death. These rules were developed around hazards specific to Mauser Packaging Solutions and are focused, clear and simple, actionable, and observable.FALL PROTECTIONFalls are the leading cause of serious injury and death on the job; which can result from slip, trip or falls on …

Life Saving Rules: Energy Isolation

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Industrial Solutions, Safety, Small Packaging

Life Saving Rules are essential safety principles that when followed, will protect employees from serious injury or death. These rules were developed around hazards specific to Mauser Packaging Solutions and are focused, clear and simple, actionable, and observable.ENERGY ISOLATIONWorkers who service equipment, perform maintenance, or clear jam-ups can be exposed to the release of hazardous energy. Some common energy sources …

Life Saving Rules: Line of Fire

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Safety

Life Saving Rules are essential safety principles that when followed, will protect employees from serious injury or death. These rules were developed around hazards specific to Mauser Packaging Solutions and are focused, clear and simple, actionable, and observable.LINE OF FIREIn safety, “Line of Fire” means the direction of movement (or potential movement) of an object. Incidents or injuries occur when …

East Brunswick Reaches Safety Milestone

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Industrial Solutions, Large Packaging, Safety

On July 28, the East Brunswick Industrial Solutions facility reached 1 year without a lost time injury incident. This achievement is particularly significant in contrast with the facilities safety history in recent years. In 2018, the East Brunswick facility had 10 recordable accidents with three lost time injuries. “For this team to accomplish this milestone in the same environment and …

Indianapolis Reaches New Safety Milestone

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Safety, Small Packaging

On July 11, the Indianapolis Small Packaging facility reached 3,285 days, which is 9 full years, without a lost time accident. Indianapolis continues to serve as an excellent role model demonstrating that no matter what disruptions come our way, and no matter what head winds are faced,  great results can be achieved when safety is an unwavering value shared by …

Life Saving Rules: Confined Spaces

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Industrial Solutions, Large Packaging, Reconditioning, Safety, Small Packaging

Life Saving Rules are essential safety principles that when followed, will protect employees from serious injury or death. These rules were developed around hazards specific to Mauser Packaging Solutions and are focused, clear and simple, actionable, and observable.CONFINED SPACESEvery year, thousands of workers are seriously injured when working in a confined space. On average in North America, two employees each …

National Safety Month – Week 4 – Driving

Michelle MachenOur Stories, Safety

The same safe driving practices that apply to personal driving should be practiced when driving at work whether on the road or when driving industrial vehicles such as a forklift. Motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of workplace deaths, and pedestrian fatalities are on the rise.Think through on-the-job risks to stay safe around vehicles in your workplace: Use …