Industrial Times call for Industrial Measures
Spring is nearly here! Am I optimistic or what? Serious spring cleaning begins by getting »
Caution: OSHA is not a small town in Wisconsin! June is National Safety Month.
Safety Glasses. All in favor, say ‘EYE’! The Motley Guy “Gear Guru” reviews the perfect »
Cheap Insurance Tip: Get a Fire Safe. You will thank me later.
Fires can be a beautiful thing to cuddle next to on cold, winter nights. Fires »
Breathe In, Breathe Out. Simple as that.
Turns out, there are hundreds of different jobs endangering the health of workers. Just this »
You’re at School. The kid next to you suddenly collapses. How do you help an unconscious person?
325,000 Americans die each year from SCA, which can be prevented by calling 911 and »
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Need an extra hand? How about two or three?
Unless you were born with a third arm, you inevitably have learned the limitations of having only two hands to hold with. That means two hands climbing a ladder. Or one hand to hammer
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Memorial Day….. Fourth of July….. Show your Patriotism every Day. Oh, and there’s a cherry on top!
Is there a soldier in your family? A Marine, perhaps? Whatever branch of the armed services, what he or she has done to protect our country deserves honoring, and that’s what the Semper Fi
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Waste Not, Want Not
Your mother isn’t around to pick up after you, and potentially…… neither is the janitor. I know you like working from home on summer days like these, but trash still collects around your workspace,
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I used my head and figured this out for you: assembling a hard hat
Engineers designed hard hats over in St. Paul, Minnesota, but that doesn’t mean we’re all engineers wearing them. It took me 5 tries before I managed to successfully assemble the 3M hard hat model H-702R
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Life Hacks for Summer Projects
Kids back to school soon? Once they’re gone, you’ll have a little free time to get after those summer projects that never came to fruition. I love to paint, and just did a bathroom
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Hearing protection is always a sound investment.
Ringing always in your ears? Could be your job site is too loud and you need ear protection, my friend. OSHA requires hearing protection when the noise level is above 85 dB (based on
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Table testing by Jean-Claude Van Damme. Just sayin’
This is the real deal. The Motley Guy got hold of this incredible surface material, called Enduro, made by our friends over at Holland Barstool. You know their team of engineers vetoed dozens of
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Alas, flu season is upon us…..
…. But fear not my friends: the good folks at Purell got us covered! (you know those guys: they make the #1 most trusted brand in hand sanitizer, but no biggie). By using Purell
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How important is the work that Chicago Lighthouse does for the blind and deaf? Only Time will Tell.
I know there’s a clock on your phone. Maybe that’s why you stopped wearing a watch. But riddle me this: how often do you find your battery dead before the day is done? That’s
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60 seconds of Trash Talk to Learn your Earth Day Lesson!
Enough excuses. Unless you’re a bro who crashed on his buddy’s futon last night, ’cause that party was outta control, and you’re awake & cleaning up like a….bro…. it’s time to learn how to
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You won’t cut it with cheap tape…..
…or maybe you will cut cheap tape, and thus my point: not all tapes are created equal. These days maybe you’ve noticed: cardboard is EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING. The hippie in me doesn’t love
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Visa Gift Cards > Cold Hard Cash
Everyone takes credit cards these days (even the questionably homeless man near MIT has an iPhone and uses Square – WHAT?!) so that effectively makes the Visa Gift Card you’re about to get in
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