An earlier hierarchy of controls had engineering controls as the top-level control. Of course, now most hierarchy of controls, including the one used by OSHA, include elimination and substitution ...

Employees should be trained to control all hazards by following the hierarchy of controls in order of effectiveness. For example, consider fabricating work on the ground to eliminate fall hazards, ...

With this hierarchy in place, there is a continuous flow of information from high level to low level and vice-versa. As data goes up, information gets aggregated, and as data goes down, it ...

Businesses and employers must first consider, and if reasonably practicable, implement higher level hierarchy of control steps first, such as elimination, isolation, substitution or engineering ...

Engineering controls that allow remote monitoring and control of equipment and guards, such as gates and inspection doors that obstruct access, greatly reduce exposure to risks. But again, they do ...

Because most of the dynamic systems that we design, from machines to governments, are based on hierarchical control, it is difficult to imagine a system in which the parts use only local ...