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Voluntary Safety Committees reduce accidents, injuries, fines.

2016-01-19 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

While safety committees are not required by OSHA, several states do mandate them. Safety committees, when designed and implemented properly, help companies reduce accidents, injuries, and fines. Specific benefits of well-run safety committees include peer-driven reviews of safe work habits as well as additional insight into illness and accident investigations. By knowing more, employees become fully invested in minimizing risk of citations, fines, and workers' comp awards.

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Understanding AMS Withdrawal of Two Voluntary Marketing Claim Standards

2016-01-15 21:10:13| National Farmers Union

NFU Note: USDA AMS withdrew their grass-fed standard earlier this week and there were a lot of questions from NFU members. NFU reached out directly to the source to find out more about how this impacts producers. FSIS has committed to ensuring that all grass-fed claims remain truthful. Read more from AMS Deputy Administrator Craig Morris in

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ANSI Voluntary Standards cover vehicle gears, grinding machines.

2015-12-29 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

ANSI/AGMA 6002C15, Design Guide for Vehicle Spur and Helical Gears, helps guide engineers in selecting design considerations – paramount to parallel axis gear sets required in vehicle drive lines. ANSI B11.92010 (R2015), Safety Requirements for Grinding Machines, applies to all stationary grinding machines used in industrial or commercial applications that use abrasive product to change shape/size/surface finish of any material as well as machines grinding materials other than metals.

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Delta farmers reach voluntary metering goal for irrigation wells

2015-12-19 03:16:17| Waste Management - Topix.net

The latest installations brought to 1,820 the number of wells that have been equipped with flow meters to help members of the Delta Sustainable Water Resource Task Force determine how best to manage the alluvial aquifer that supplies most of the irrigation water used by Delta farmers. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said farmers have installed flow meters on the 10 percent of the permitted irrigation wells needed in each of the 19 Delta counties to meet a goal set to avoid mandatory monitoring of the wells.

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