Pressure tests are performed to ensure the safety, reliability, and leak tightness of pressure systems. A pressure test is required...
Construction
Construction is a high-hazard industry that comprises a wide range of activities involving construction, alteration, and/or repair. Construction workers engage in many activities that may expose them to serious hazards, such as falling from rooftops, unguarded machinery, being struck by heavy construction equipment, electrocutions, silica dust, and asbestos.
In This section, we will provide Construction Safety information, tools, and resources to assist those in the industry – whether workers or employers – to identify, reduce, and eliminate construction-related hazards. The Resources will include and not be limited to blogs, Apps, Training Materials, Forms, Templates, and more
George Kennedy is supervisor can recall multiple incidents involving unprotected workers and trench cave-ins. Unfortunately, some of those stories have...
A competent person is an employee who is able to recognize hazards associated with a particular task, and has the...
Job-make wooden ladders are custom-made to fit specific job situations during construction or demolition operations. Their primary purpose is to...
The use of a crane suspended personnel platform (manbasket) is prohibited unless there is no safer, practical, conventional means of...
Welding safety checklists are tools used to ensure the safety of workers throughout the entire welding cutting and brazing process....
Workplace inspections are an opportunity to identify hazards and assess risk in your workplace on an ongoing basis. As part...
This articles outlines the specific planning and execution requirements for lifting critical loads and to provide minimum requirements for the...
Safety science is a twenty-first-century term for everything that goes into the prevention of accidents, illnesses, fires, explosions, and other...
Many people across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing/maintenance, medical, hospitality, science and education use gases from compressed gas...
Job Hazard Analysis A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond From Hazard to Risk: Transforming the JHA from a Tool...
Working safely around high-voltage conductors is a challenge for many workers . High-voltage systems are generally associated with utility services...
This Small Entity Compliance Guide (SECG) is intended to help small businesses comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s...
Low-voltage electrical systems serve most homes and commercial buildings. Every day, hundreds of workers in many projects work safely on and around...
The intent of this WELDING GUIDELINE is to serve as a resource for employers and workers to safely perform welding activities....
Employers are responsible for investigating certain incidents or near-misses that take place in the workplace and submitting an investigation report...
Once you've completed a risk assessment in your workplace, those risks that you have identified as high or moderate may require additional...
As an employer, you need to conduct a systematic risk assessment to help you identify the hazards that exist in your...
Skid-steer loaders present a number of risks to workers. The most types of injuries caused by skid-steer loaders are rollovers on...
About this guide A workplace safety and health program is a legislative requirement in workplaces with 20 or more workers....
For the last half of a century, the rates of injuries in the workplace have steadily fallen, particularly in the...
The Construction High Risk Strategy (HRS) is designed to reduce the construction industry’s serious injury rate through risk-reduction tactics focused...
The work place guide to Arc Flash safety Get answers to your arc flash and NFPA 70E questions With the...
Forklift Safety Guide Learning the safe way to operate a forklift and other powered industrial trucks may save your life...