About Our History of Workplace Safety

At the heart of Harkins Safety’s mission is eliminating workplace injuries.

Increase safety awareness: Provide safety professionals with the tools they need to communicate safe work behavior and expectations.
Boost employee morale: Enable employees to own their responsibility for safety in the workplace by understanding safe working conditions.

The Harkins Safety Story

Trusted since 1947, Harkins Safety was established in Pittsburgh, PA, just two years after the end of WWII. Harkins Safety grew as a prominent distributor of safety supplies across the United States with access to major brands of PPE and safety gear to compliment your safety program.

A Focus on Safety Banners & Posters

Sixty years after Harkins Safety’s founding, the focus continued with banners and posters, where the team created and provided safety messages to improve workers safety that included catchy rhymes, themes, and imagery. This effort expanded on Harkins’ historical offering, and grew to include over 1,000 messages, images, and themes. Each promotes workplace safety and employee commitment to safety.

Today, Harkins Safety continues its rich history focused on employee safety, providing products to meet safety regulations and help mitigate safety issues. Serving longstanding customers, and welcoming new customers, we offer custom banners, posters, and stickers – either with your own safety message or one of ours. Customization can be simply adding your company’s logo to an existing banner, or a complete new message and image specific to your organization. Harkins is currently hard at work developing new methods of housing and deploying Lock Out / Tag Out programs for the workplace. (More to come on that in the near future – check out myharkinshouse.com). Finally, we are committed to providing our services and products with honesty, friendliness, and convenient service.

Looking Towards the Future

Building on Harkins Safety’s longstanding support of the American employee, The 804 Group, LLC added Harkins Safety to its operation in 2021. The 804 Group began with the development of products safe for use. Now expanding by adding Harkins Safety, and we at “804” are adding to the Harkins offering. We have redesigned our website, making the wide selection easy to browse, and building a new lineup of banner/poster designs and safety products. We are investing in additional printing technology and looking forward to our launch of MyHarkinsHouse™.

Thanks for checking out Harkins Safety today.

We hope you find the safety messaging that you are looking for, and if not, let us know by emailing [email protected] or calling 855-423-7824. We are glad to help, ready to design a new banner, poster, decal, or wallet card for you. We look forward to helping you on your safe workplace journey.