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Staying Safe: A Reminder from OSHA

Does your facility use meat grinders? The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently sent out a reminder to keep your team members’ safe when working with this machinery. OSHA recommends that employees working with this equipment be trained to: Only use a proper plunger when feeding meat into grinders. Operate grinders only when feeding […]

The Essentials of Roof Load Capacity

Since original drawings for older buildings are often lost or discarded over time, many renovation project teams must spend significant time trying to determine whether a roof can sustain additional weight. Yet trying to get more load capacity from an existing roof can be difficult even for more modern facilities where drawings do exist. If […]

SARA 313/Toxic Release Inventory: Five Things You Need to Know

The annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports under SARA 313 for the 2023 calendar year must be submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) by July 1, 2024! Now is the time to begin reviewing the amounts your facility used, processed, or manufactured last year. In the Spring issue of Hixson’s EH&S From […]

Conduit Seal Effectiveness

Whether for product or ingredient storage, or to maintain product temperature during processing and packaging, facilities often contain spaces that are conditioned to low temperatures (ranging from 60°F to 0°F or lower). At these temperatures, when the temperature in the conditioned room is below the dew point of vapor in the adjacent spaces, the potential […]

The Value of Construction Mockups

Hixson’s construction specifications typically include items or assemblies that require the contractor to provide mockups for Hixson (as the Architect/Engineer) and the facility’s Owner to approve prior to the installation of the finished product. These mockups are called out for scopes of work which we have found to be challenging for contractors to get correct […]

A Look Back: Maple Leaf Foods

Hixson served as the A/E of record for the $772MM, 640,000 SF Maple Leaf Foods poultry processing facility in London, Ontario. Leading-edge food safety, environmental, and animal welfare processes and technologies were designed into the facility, one of the most technologically advanced poultry-processing plants in the world! Want to discover more about what makes this […]

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