When a Midwestern manufacturing plant launched a targeted English as a Second Language (ESL) program for its 225-person workforce, the results spoke louder than any budget memo: a 26% year-over-year decline in voluntary turnover, over 50% improvement in machine uptime, and 306 consecutive days without an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-recordable incident....
If you run a manufacturing operation in Massachusetts and your production floor includes workers with limited English proficiency, public Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) funding for English language training is available to support your company. This guide breaks down the two main funding paths Massachusetts manufacturers can use to pay for workplace...
For Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) managers running multilingual operations, language is either a safety system or a liability. Managers can reduce workplace accidents through language training, and there is a strong correlation from improving English proficiency to incident-rate reduction. Here we take a look at how to implement language training and track...
OSHA language access requirements are essential for compliance in every manufacturing facility, not merely optional guidelines. OSHA mandates that safety training, work instructions, and hazard communication be delivered in a manner that employees can understand, with special emphasis on non-English-speaking workers and those with limited literacy. For example, a metal fabrication plant had...