Our topic for this month is one that virtually all operators are familiar with, though some may take them for granted—Safety Boards. For a closer look at the use of safety boards and the impact they and related visual media can have on incident-prevention efforts, we posed a series of questions to Dan Getter, senior manager of safety operations for UniFirst Corp., Wilmington, MA.

Why should a plant have a safety board?

Plant production operations typically have the greatest concentration of the workforce and provide the greatest opportunity to impact many at once. Safety boards are a consistent reminder ...