Steel Tube Institute and MTS Sign Safety Support Service Agreement

The Steel Tube Institute of North America (STINA) has signed a Strategic Services Agreement with Multimedia Training Systems, Inc., which will provide monthly safety information and video clips for STINA?s website. New safety information will be provided every month; previous months? topics will be archived so they can be easily accessed.

The agreement is part of the STINA?s Safety Task Force mission to help STINA?s member companies focus on and improve their safety performance by sharing safety information and best practices. Since being formed in September 2006, the Task Force has held a series of safety meetings at member company?s facilities. The group has focused on twelve key safety issues that were identified in a survey of safety personnel of member companies. The topics include: head injuries, machine guards, the use of robots, modified work programs, mill roll zinc build-up, pinch points, turning tubes and hydro blowouts.

Bill Wolfe, executive director of the Steel Tube Institute, said, "Our agreement with MTS is another step in our Safety Task Force?s effort to help our members reduce injuries and save lives. Each of the monthly topics will relate to a safety issue relevant to the steel pipe and tube industry and will complement the other efforts of our Safety Task Force."

Each month, a new safety issue will be placed on the STINA?s website. The focus will be on OSHA topics such as lockout/tagout, and respiratory and hearing issues. The postings on the website will
include a video clip and an opportunity to get more detailed information on each topic. In discussing the benefits of partnering with the Steel Tube Institute, David K. Coffaro, President of MTS, said: "This is a good opportunity for us to open a positive dialogue with safety personnel throughout the pipe and tube industry. The videos and topics we will be placing on the STINA?s website will be specific to their industry. Our video clips include interviews with injured people; we also have the ability to recreate accidents with animation that will help viewers understand what caused specific accidents."

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