About Us

While working as a Safety Director at an aerospace component manufacturer we had a surprise audit performed by OSHA which resulted in a verbal warning for being in violation of our bench grinder's tool rests and tongue guards. Even though it wasn't a fine or finding I thought that there had to be a gauge out there to aware operators and prevent this potential hazard from reoccurring. Over the next several weeks I researched several safety catalogs and internet searches and found there was no product out there of this nature. With the level of hazard and numerous cases of deaths from the lack of compliance within the manufacturing industries along with my background in engineering, I knew I could design an awareness device that could help prevent these hazards from occurring.

In the summer while remodeling my kitchen I was building kitchen cabinets and came up with several wooden prototypes from the leftover scraps of wood. I then persisted to make several steel prototypes with metal stampings similar to the wooden prototypes. I soon finalized the design and approached a plastic manufacturer to build plastic mold versions of my prototypes. As of January 2009 I have progressed to making injection mold tooling and started the first production run with initial product release of March 2009. The overall intent is to prevent at least "ONE" injury from ever happening; every injury prevented thereafter is a bonus!!

BE SAFE, BE PROACTIVE, BUY A GAUGE!!

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