Hooking up your Trailer can be a dangerous job if proper safety precautions are not taken. Before towing, make sure that your vehicle and trailer maintenance is up-to-date, and that you check the following each time you hook your trailer up. Photo 1: Trailer coupling...
Standards are commonly used in engineering design. Some standards are legal requirements while others are consensus or voluntary standards. There are a number of organizations that provide standards including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA),...
As a mechanical engineer who works in equipment design safety, I sometimes get involved in lawsuits where injuries occur while equipment is being used. Usually in the roll of an expert witness. One question that I am often asked in one form or another during...
Recently, there was a big hullabaloo in my neighborhood regarding the swings in the park maintained by our HOA. Someone posted a picture on our neighborhood Facebook page showing two of the swings hanging by only one chain. As you might imagine, the neighborhood...
Warning Signs to be Aware of in Machinery and Maintenance The old adage: “Red sky at night sailor’s delight, Red sky in the morning sailor take warning.” has been around in one form or another for thousands of years (Matthew 16:2-3). This was a well understood sign...
Congratulations! You think you came up with a new, multi million-dollar idea… But you want to be sure… I met with an inventor not too long ago, who told me about his idea for a new gardening tool that he was really excited about. We went over what he had...