OSHA compliance updates, product guides, and fire safety best practices for facility managers and safety teams. Built on 30+ years of manufacturing industrial safety equipment.

Pit fall protection comes down to three options: fixed handrails, collapsible handrails, or pit covers. Each has trade-offs that depend entirely on how your pit operates. FIXED HANDRAILS - Always in place, always compliant - No operator action required - Problem: they block vehicle and equipment access over the pit - Best for: pits that are rarely accessed from above (utility tunnels, cable trenches) PIT COVERS - Full surface protection when closed - Can support vehicle loads

OSHA 1910.157(d)(2) and (d)(4) set maximum travel distances to fire extinguishers: - 75 feet for Class A hazards - 50 feet for Class B hazards Sounds simple. It is not. Travel distance means actual walking path. Not straight-line measurement on a floor plan. Not the distance a drone would fly from workstation to extinguisher. The path a person walks — around racking, through doorways, past equipment. Here is how OSHA compliance officers measure it during inspections: 1. They