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Choosing Safety Switches

From Honeywell Sensing and Control

One of the most stressful, regretful and disastrous events a plant manager can experience is the injury of a colleague due to an accident. In this day and age of "too many things to do and too little time to do them," sometimes the job of keeping a manufacturing plant safe takes a second chair to cranking out product. But if just a few minutes of conscious examination and planning could prevent just one injury, wouldn't it be time well spent? Not only could a little forethought help prevent a needless tragedy, but it could prevent the fallout that inevitably follows an industrial accident such as OSHA inspections and fines, bad press and loss of productivity.

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