Equipment Safety

Hazards associated with compressed gases include oxygen displacement, fires, explosions, and toxic gas exposures, as well as the physical hazards associated with high-pressure systems. Special storage, use, and handling precautions are necessary in order to control these hazards. Grainger can help you with our complete offering of compressed air systems.

Approximately 3 million workers service equipment and face the greatest risk of injury if lockout/tagout is not properly implemented. Compliance with lockout/tagout standard 29 CFR 1910.147 prevents an estimated 120 fatalities and 50,000 injuries each year. Grainger can help you keep workers safe from unexpected energies, or start up of machinery or equipment by helping you lockout hazards.

EHS Today states falls from ladders injure more than 20,000 American workers every year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The direct compensation and medical treatments associated with falls from elevation cost American businesses $4.6 billion, according to Liberty Mutual's 2005 Workplace Safety Index. Climb as high as you need safely with Grainger’s line of ladders, scaffolding & manlifts.

Moving machine parts have the potential to cause severe workplace injuries, such as crushed fingers or hands, amputations, burns or blindness. Employee exposure to unguarded or inadequately guarded machines is prevalent in many workplaces. Grainger has the essential safeguards you need to help protect your workers from these preventable injuries.

Moving large, heavy loads are crucial to today's manufacturing and construction industries. There are significant safety issues to be considered, both for the operators of the diverse "lifting" devices, and for workers in proximity to them. Grainger offers ASME/ANSI approved hoists and pullers as well as the cranes and other equipment you need to safely perform your job.

Welding, cutting, and brazing are hazardous activities that pose a unique combination of both safety and health risks to more than 500,000 workers in a wide variety of industries. The risk from fatal injuries alone is more than four deaths per thousand workers over a working lifetime. From welders to respiratory protection to cylinder trucks, Grainger has what you need to work safely.