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Entries for the 2008 AFS Millionaires Safety Award now are being accepted. The award is designed to recognize AFS corporate member firms that succeed in providing the highest level of safe and healthy workplaces.
This annual award recognizes facilities that accomplish increments of a million consecutive man-hours worked from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 without incurring an occupational injury or illness that results in days away from work or death. Candidates for the 2008 award must apply by Jan. 5, 2009. The awards will be presented at the 113th Metalcasting Congress, which will be held April 7-10 at the Paris Hotel, Las Vegas.
"AFS is committed to making workplace safety a top priority," said Jerry Call, AFS executive vice president. "We are proud to recognize safety efforts made by our corporate members with this award."
Applications can be downloaded at the AFS website by clicking here. For more information, contact Fred Kohloff, AFS director of environmental, health and safety, at
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The metalcasting industry recorded its third consecutive decrease in recordable injury and illness cases in 2007, according to the results of an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) study.
The administration indicated that metalcasting facilities reported 11.8 injuries or illnesses for every 100 full-time employees. The number is only slightly down from 2006 (11.9) but has decreased 12.6% from 13.5 in 2005. The incidents also have remained below 2003 numbers, when only 13.1 incidents were recorded per 100 workers, the year before the 2004 spike to 14.
The OSHA statistics indicated that metalcasting facilities experienced higher rates of illness and injuries than other manufacturing plants as a whole, which reduced their numbers from 6 incidents per 100 full-time employees in 2006 to 5.6 in 2007. The metalcasting industry is also behind other primary metal manufacturers (8.1 incidents per 100 full-time employees). Both manufacturers as a whole and primary metal manufacturers experienced a greater rate of decrease from 2006 to 2007 than did metalcasters alone.
Non-investment steel metalcasters recorded the highest number of injury and illness in 2007 at 13.8. The plants were the safest among metalcasters in 2005. Nonferrous diecasters (excluding aluminum) managed the lowest number of incidents in 2007 at 6.1. The safest group in 2006, nonferrous non-diecasters (excluding aluminum) experienced the greatest rate of increase, jumping 83% from 6.4 to 11.7 incidents. Non-diecasting aluminum facilities recorded the greatest rate of improvement, lowering their 12.1 incidents by 26% to 9.
For more information, contact Fred Kohloff, AFS director of environmental, health and safety, at
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The Improving Operations and Profitability in the Small Foundry Conference will be held Dec. 3-4 at AFS Headquarters, Schaumburg, Ill. This workshop was developed to help sustain the small metalcasting business in today's challenging financial climate by detailing ideas to reduce costs and improve profits. It is being held in response to industry-wide requests for a conference that addresses the needs of smaller metalcasters. Topics include:
- managing human resources;
- pricing castings;
- common OSHA violations;
- utilizing automation and robotics in a job shop cleaning room;
- sand system maintenance;
- becoming QS certified;
- integration of process modeling.
The conference will conclude with an open forum where metalcasters can ask the experts about pressing issues facing them. For more information, or to register for this conference, contact AFS customer service at 800/537-4237 or click here to download a conference brochure in .pdf format.
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MODERN CASTING magazine has put the compendium of information available in its annual Buyer's Guide up on the internet, so you can find the materials, equipment and services you need to improve your metalcasting business without leaving your office.
The new guide, available at buyersguide.moderncasting.com, includes all of the suppliers in each of the product categories presented in the print edition of the resource. But with this interactive application, you can search through the data to find the products you need by directly selecting a product category, entering a supplier's name or location, or choosing from a list of supplier names.
The online guide, which is constantly kept up to date by the suppliers themselves, also can be accessed through the AFS website (www.afsinc.org) or MODERN CASTING site (www.moderncasting.com). Check out the new Buyer's Guide today, and go shopping for a better business.
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Engineered Casting Solutions and the AFS Marketing Div. 14 now are accepting submissions for the 2009 Casting Competition. Each year, dozens of castings are sent in with the hopes of becoming the next Casting of the Year.
Find out if your castings stand up against the elite. All castings submitted receive free publicity in Engineered Casting Solutions magazine and the winners are part of an end-user PR campaign. The Casting of the Year and Best in Class winners receives a free license of Magmasoft casting simulation software. Click here to download an entry form. For more information, contact Dave Krugman, AFS PR and marketing coordinator, at
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