Top Topics to Cover with Machine Shop Safety Videos

Workplace injuries frequently occur out of a direct result of a lack of training or negligence on the employer’s part, but it really doesn’t have to be that way. Training doesn’t have to take a long time for machine shops and it shouldn’t take time out of management’s busy schedule. Machine shop safety videos provide essential training for your employees reducing the potential of workplace injuries while ensuring your compliance with OSHA and other regulatory agencies. But as a machine shop owner, you’re probably wondering what topics you should cover with your machine shop safety videos.

Covering topics that are vital to employee safety should, of course, be at the top of your list when creating machine shop safety videos, but you don’t want to stop there. You should also consider covering topics that will fill any gaps in safety training that your machine shop currently may have. This requires you to carefully analyze:

• Your current safety training programs.
• Recent or past employee injuries and whether there is any pattern involved.
• Equipment and tools that are used and what training is provided.
• Your current safety goals and intended safety objectives.

At Beverly Boy Productions, we work with machine shops and business owners in industries where heavy machinery is frequently used. As a full-service film production company, we specialize in producing machine shop safety videos that can be used to train employees on safe operations of equipment throughout the shop to minimize the risk of workplace injury and to improve overall safety within the shop. To learn more, or to produce any of the following machine shop safety videos, give us a call!

General Machine Shop Safety Videos 

First on the list of topics to cover with machine shop safety videos is general safety. This may seem like common sense, but you’ll be surprised at how many employees lack the general knowledge of how to safely enter and work within a machine shop or similar environment. With general machine shop safety videos, you can cover topics like:

• Safety gear that is required as well as when, where and how to wear it.
• Groups or buddy systems and the importance of having two or more employees in the shop at all times.
• Clothing that can and cannot be worn inside the shop.
• Hand tools and how, when, where and what to do with them as well as what not to do with them.

Safety Reporting Videos 

Because the risks while working in a machine shop are so high, it’s often important for business owners to provide machine shop safety videos which directly cover what to do in the event of a safety injury or risk. Training workers to recognize potential safety risks and to report them is equally as important as training them on how to operate safely within the machine shop.

With safety reporting videos for your machine shop you might also teach your workers:

• What types of safety issues require immediate reporting.
• Who your employees should report their safety issued to.
• How to report safety issues.
• The steps and procedures for reporting a safety incident such as an injury.
• What to expect after reporting a safety issue, injury or similar problem.

Safe Equipment Operations

Machine shop safety videos should also focus on the specific equipment or machinery that your employees will come into contact with over their course of working within the shop. Teaching employees how to safely operate equipment, as well as how to recognize risks or other potential issues with equipment is essential to ensuring their safety while they are at work in your machine shop.

Consider covering the following equipment related topics with your machine shop safety videos:

• What equipment is within the machine shop.
• How to check equipment before, during or after use. 
• How to safely troubleshoot equipment inside the machine shop.
• What to do if equipment isn’t working properly.
• Where emergency power, shut-off, or other equipment features can be found.
• How to safely interact with others while equipment is in use within the machine shop.

Naturally, you might have other important topics that are directly related to the operation of equipment or specific safety features that are found within your machine shop which you can use machine shop safety videos to provide essential employee training on. Overall, the focus of any topics that you choose to cover with your machine shop safety videos should be with the intent of creating a safe, injury-free, environment for your team that will minimize any risk of danger when workers are involved.

Analyzing your machine shop, and any past issues with safety that your team may have had, is a great starting point when it comes to laying out ideas for your machine shop safety videos. There are probably endless topics that you “could” cover, but you want to be sure that you’re covering topics that are relative, reasonable, and valuable to your team. To learn more about producing machine shop safety videos, give Beverly Boy Productions a call!