Emergency Preparedness and Natural Disasters: Floods and Electricity
When electrical equipment becomes submerged or otherwise damaged by the incursion of floodwater, personal safety and facility structures are threatened.Read More
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Best Practices for Keg Users
All industry stakeholders have a role to play in returning kegs to their owners. This post includes best practices for everyone using kegs.Read More
Keg Etiquette
The Golden Rule KegReturn.com is designed to provide tools to help anyone redirect a keg towards its home brewery. Returning a keg to its owner is the right thing to do—if you lost your wallet you’d hope someone would return it …Read More
Keg Scrapping
Many Brewers Association member breweries have been contacted by their local scrap yards letting them know that someone has tried to sell one or more of their kegs for scrap value. At 30 pounds empty weight, a typical stainless steel …Read More
A Modern Brewpub’s Quality Control Program
By Dana Garves Many brewpubs are eager to implement quality control, but are hesitant for a number of reasons. The main concern is that quality control (QC) is too expensive for a brewpub budget. This is a common misconception; in …Read More
Reducing Wrist Injuries from Lifting Kegs
As we’ve grown, we are seeing an increased handling of full kegs throughout the brewery. One of our crew recently developed a tendon strain in his wrist from moving kegs. We had always been focused on the safety aspects of …Read More
Brewery Safety Plans – Train Yourself or Hire Consultant
I have a question regarding brewery safety plans. Is it generally more effective for breweries to research and train employees on brewery safety or to hire a safety consultant to create a site specific safety plan? Where do insurance providers …Read More
Ensuring Safety During Brewery Tours
It's important to ensure the safety of all brewery visitors. These best practices will help you consider potential hazards and eliminate them. Read More
Wheel Chock Safety
We have a policy that has been hard to enforce: we require that all trucks loading or unloading at our dock use wheel chocks. Neither the drivers nor our staff regularly take the time to do that. Can you give …Read More
Forklift Certification
My brewery just had a close call with a forklift. I read that everyone that operates a forklift needs to be certified. The brewery is small and, according to the owners, we don’t have it in our budget to get …Read More
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