In a move to bolster safety across off-highway equipment industries, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers recently introduced a free online safety toolkit tailored to promote safety awareness, education, and training for operators of equipment used in the construction, agriculture, utility, mining, and forestry sectors.
AEM’s Safety Toolkit delivers a comprehensive suite of resources aimed at enhancing safety awareness, education, and training including:
- Digital Safety Manuals — Access extensive consensus documents vetted by industry committees, providing invaluable insights into best practices. While they serve as excellent references, they are meant to complement and not replace OEMs’ original documentation or printed safety manuals which may be required in the machine.
- Action Plans — Dive into interactive learning modules sourced from AEM safety manuals, guiding users through on-site equipment operation best practices.
- Insightful Articles — Stay informed with the latest news, best practices, and industry insights through AEM's rich repository of articles, updated regularly.
- Training Resources — Equip your toolbox talks and classrooms with downloadable training slides, educational materials, and AEM's safety pictorial database, ensuring comprehensive safety coverage.
"Our online safety resources build upon AEM's 50-year legacy of promoting safety,” says Jaime Vos, AEM's senior director of cultural innovation. “And now we are making these valuable resources available through an online toolkit, making it easier for equipment operators to reference our safety manuals and the full range of our safety training and education materials.”
Click here to see the complete line of AEM safety materials or visit safetymaterials.org.
“AEM’s safety toolkit features an extensive selection of information that is helpful for the Safety and Training School the service team provides to our customers,” says Annie Kirk, technical writer at AEM member company American Augers. “Our internal technical publications group also references the e-manuals and the pictorial database to ensure consistency of our safety content.”
