11 safety questions to answer for new employees

11 Safety Questions You Need to Answer for New Employees

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Proper safety training is critical when hiring new employees for your food processing plant.

According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food-processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 Reaching across a conveyor, lifting heavy loads, twisting and bending at a work station, performing repetitive tasks, and working in awkward positions – all tasks commonly found in processing plants – are leading risk factors for injury.

Most new employees don’t understand the risks of injury associated with working in a food processing plant when they apply for a job — especially if it is their first time working in the food processing industry. Often, they don’t even know the right safety questions to ask to be prepared for the risks.
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8 Causes of Costly Injuries in Food Processing Plants

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According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in food-processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 Reaching across a conveyor, lifting heavy loads, twisting and bending at a work station, performing repetitive tasks, and working in awkward positions – all tasks commonly found in processing plants – are leading risk factors for injury.

Every injury comes at a cost — both to the employee injured and to the company — in way of accident investigations, OSHA logs, employee downtime, employee turnover, employee retraining, insurance premium increases, medical services, and hiring temporary replacement workers.

Understanding the causes of the most common injuries in food processing plants is key to making adjustments, investing in ergonomic equipment, and providing employee training in order to avoid the high cost of employee injuries.

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Lighting up the Night: Macomb High Bombers Sign

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Fusion Tech is lighting up the night with the completion of our latest custom signage project — a back lit Macomb High Bombers plane.

Featured on the side of the Macomb High School field house on the corner of West Grant and South Johnson Streets, the Bombers plane is part of an effort to help support the local community and make improvements to the field house. It gives the Macomb High School athletes, students, parents, and local community something to be proud of and show off.

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6 Benefits of Stainless Steel Ergonomic Stands

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Ergonomic stands have become staple equipment in any food processing facility.

The differing heights of employees, mixed with the growing awareness of musculoskeletal disorders caused from stretching, twisting, overreaching, and repeated awkward movements, has made ergonomic stands necessary to keep employees safe and accident reports (and costs!) down. A facility without ergonomic stands opens itself up to a greater risk of employee injuries and a greater risk of shelling out thousands of dollars for those injuries.

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6 Options You Should Look For in a Food Conveyor

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Conveyors play a key role in any food processing plant. The right food conveyor system can streamline your processing or packaging operation, reduce operating costs, increase the efficiency of your operation, and increase your product yield.

But finding the right food conveyor system – the one that will increase product yield, decrease operating costs, and fit seamlessly with your current equipment – is not an easy task. Do a quick Google search for food conveyor and you’ll find thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of results. How are you supposed to narrow down those results to find the perfect food conveyor system for your plant?

Simple. Look for these six options when purchasing a food conveyor system:

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6 Reasons to Visit Our Process Expo Booth

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With over 500 exhibitors at this year’s Process Expo, each offering solutions to your various needs, deciding which booths to visit, interact with, and pick up information from won’t be an easy task.

Where do you start? Which manufacturers are offering solutions to your operational needs? How do you narrow it down so you have time to visit and converse with the right manufacturers and attend the educational sessions on your list? How do you avoid getting stuck at manufacturer’s booths who promise one thing but clearly can’t deliver?

The questions are endless.

We know the struggle and the time constraint you’ll face while walking the McCormick Place this September. To help you out, we have put together six reasons why you will want to visit the Fusion Tech booth at this year’s Process Expo:

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6 Reasons to Invest in a Custom Designed Conveyor

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Do a quick Google search for food conveyor, and you’ll find thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of results – most of which are stock conveyors. The manufacturer has specific sizes, options, and styles of conveyors they build, and spend big bucks convincing you to buy what they have in stock.

It’s a great business model for them. Not so much for you.

They have a few styles of conveyors they pump out in mass, only have to train their employees to build a few versions, offer select few options, and try to convince you to buy them, whether it fits your specific application or not.

There is a better way.

Custom designed conveyor systems are all about you and your specific application needs. You can get exactly what you need, designed to meet your specific goals, and not have to work around stock equipment that doesn’t quite fit.

Here are 6 reasons why purchasing custom designed conveyor systems are the better choice:

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Fusion Tech: A Proud Small Business

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It’s National Small Business Week – a week set aside every year to recognize the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Small businesses, like us here at Fusion Tech, are a driving force in the American economy. More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, and they create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year.

We are proud to be counted in such an amazing group of entrepreneurs and visionaries who set out to create something new, add to the economy, and provide jobs for those in their local community.

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5 Reasons to Attend Process Expo

5 Reasons You Should Attend Process Expo

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Imagine a place where you can view and interact with the latest equipment and technology in the food processing industry, discover solutions that fit your processing needs, and attend sessions to grow your knowledge of the industry and do it all in 4 days without paying a registration fee.

Sounds too good to be true, right?

You don’t need to imagine it! The Process Expo, held September 15-18 at McCormick Place in Chicago, is all of that and more!

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