If you manage or direct an industrial facility and are trying to reduce the amount of waste you send out – and trying to increase the amount of material that gets recycled – you must be extra careful about how your employees dispose of their lunch materials. You can easily ruin any attempt to decrease waste if they place the waste in the wrong bins. While some of the waste will be recyclable, like clean cardboard containers or plastic drink bottles, other items will have to be thrown away due to food contamination. Read More»
If you work at a factory that needs you to fabricate new safety rails, they may give you raw cold rolled steel tubing with which to work. If you do not have much experience working with the material, you may not know how to properly prepare it. If so, use the following three tips for preparing the steel for rail fabrication.
Thoroughly Degrease The Surface
The first thing you should do when preparing the steel rails is to degrease the surface. Read More»
The one smell that no one really wants to smell inside of their house is sewage. If you have a septic tank and can smell the sewage from it inside of your house, you have a problem. Here are the three most common reasons you can smell your septic tank inside of your home and what you can do about it.
#1 Dry Drains
One of the most common reasons for the smell of sewage to start stinking up your house is dry drains. Read More»
During the summer, water heaters are often kept on a low setting. However, as fall turns into winter, people all over the nation find they need to adjust their water heater so that they can take hot showers and baths. If you find yourself in this situation and this is your first time changing the temperature on an electric water heater, follow these steps.
Turn off the Power
Electric water heaters have many electrical wires that if touched while receiving a current can cause severe injury or worse. Read More»
In your manufacturing plant, your employees probably share tools with one another. Although this can be a good way to ensure that everyone has what they need to get the job done while saving money on tools, it can lead to a lot of lost tools along the way. Obviously, lost tools can lead to expensive replacements and can result in your employees not having what they need when they have to get a job done. Read More»
