Commentary: Welcome to a Better Printing Industry (piworld.com)

One of the great things about my job is I get to spend time talking to people with strong insight about the printing industry. And from a couple of recent exchanges with a couple of the PRINTING United Alliance’s subject matter experts, I’ve concluded that printing is a better industry to work for than it previously has been.

Inherently Safer
A couple of months ago, I spoke with Gary Jones, the Alliance’s vice president, environmental, health, and safety affairs. In that discussion, Gary outlined some of the ways printing businesses often fall short of OSHA requirements, and how they can take steps to do what’s required and provide a safe workplace for their employees.

As the printing industry has become more digital, more automated, less assisted by the human touch of work in process, it has become inherently safer – to a point. While it is true that injuries do still happen, and machine guards are, at times, circumvented, there is less reason today to do so. There are fewer opportunities for a press operator, for instance, to make equipment adjustments “on-the-fly.”

More Attractive
Within a soon-to-be released article in Printing Impressions by Adriane Harrison, the Alliance’s vice president of human relations consulting, she says the generation of workers just now coming into our workforce – those known as Gen Z – are most interested in working for employers that care about their physical and mental well-being. This is according to a 2020 Gallup survey.

much more at: https://www.piworld.com/article/printing-industry-better-place-work-than-before/