Tag: OSHA
30 Universal Work Zone Safety Tips
By Bryan Christiansen
Most sites are looking to continuously evolve and improve their safety program. To help with this, new ideas need to be...
SEAA Member Companies Receive Safety Excellence and Craft Training Awards
May 12, 2020 (Winston-Salem, N.C.) The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) announces the recipients of the 2020 Safety Excellence Award and Craft Training...
Safer, Faster, Smarter: Prefabrication is Vertical Construction’s New Normal
Sarah Bowers, Fraley Construction Marketing
Nearly every builder is experiencing at least a little coronavirus panic these days. Schedules and budgets are up in the air....
Water Environment Federation convening a blue-ribbon panel to evaluate biological hazards and precautions for...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — To ensure the protection of wastewater workers during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond, the Water Environment Federation (WEF) is convening a blue-ribbon panel...
Protecting Inactive Construction Sites During the Coronavirus Pandemic
By: John Newbury, Ramtech Electronics Limited
Should construction keep going during the Coronavirus Pandemic? It’s a highly volatile debate, and the rules seem to change...
Preventing deaths in the utility industry with enhanced vehicle safety
The utility industry is a major contributor to the US economy with the electric sector alone providing 5% of GDP and supporting 7 million...
Preventing Construction Tragedies from Above
Here are three steps toward better safety at heights.
By Charles D. Johnson
Several high-profile incidents this year brought workplace safety-at-heights failures into public view. Two...
How to Securely Anchor Machinery to Prevent Movement (OSHA regulation 1910.212(b))
A proactive business owner knows that providing a hazard-free workplace by adhering to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will help create a...
OSHA Provides Compliance Assistance Resources to Protect Workers from Falls
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has developed a collection of compliance assistance resources to address falls in the workplace, the leading cause of worker fatality in the construction industry.
