Assessing risks
As an employer, you need to conduct a systematic risk assessment to help you identify the hazards that exist in your…
Category: 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
Skid Steer Loaders Risks
Skid-steer loaders present a number of risks to workers. The most types of injuries caused by skid-steer loaders are rollovers on…
E-Books:Guide for Developing a Workplace Safety and Health Program
About this guide A workplace safety and health program is a legislative requirement in workplaces with 20 or more workers.…
E-Books:Rethinking the Way We Think About Safety
For the last half of a century, the rates of injuries in the workplace have steadily fallen, particularly in the…
Construction High Risk Strategy
The Construction High Risk Strategy (HRS) is designed to reduce the construction industry’s serious injury rate through risk-reduction tactics focused…
E-Books:THE WORKPLACE GUIDE TO ARC FLASH SAFETY
The work place guide to Arc Flash safety Get answers to your arc flash and NFPA 70E questions With the…
E-Books:Forklift Safety Guide
Forklift Safety Guide Learning the safe way to operate a forklift and other powered industrial trucks may save your life…
Low-level access-Looking beyond ladders
Why are low-level access products gaining in popularity as a means of fall protection? [xt_networks title="Follow Us" force_original_colors="yes"] Low-level access…
Three things You Should Never Force Employees To Do
There are three things that an employer should never “force” an employee to do... [xt_networks title="Follow Us" force_original_colors="yes"] “Work at heights” – …
Alternative measures for lockout/tagout
When is it appropriate to use the alternative protection measures outlined in OSHA 29 CFR 1910.147 in place of standard…
Miller Fall Clearance Calculator:Safety APP.
When working at height, it is important to know your fall clearance and swing fall, whether using a shock-absorbing lanyard…
Working safely around confined spaces
Employers are responsible for managing the confined space hazards in a workplace. If you are a worker, there are also…
Managing Confined space Hazards
As an employer, you must take the following five steps to reduce the risks association with confined spaces hazards in…
Confined spaces
Confined spaces in the workplace pose a significant risk of injury and death. Hazards in confined spaces can result in fire, explosion, unconsciousness,…
Powered Industrial Trucks
This Post contains safety requirements relating to fire protection, design, maintenance, and use of fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks,…
OSHA Proposes Rule on Crane Operator Certification
Eight years after it began the process of finalizing a rule to govern the certification of crane and derrick operators…
Tool Box Talk: Securing a construction Site
There are many instances where the public make their way into a work site to run equipment for the thrill…
Tool Box Talk: Manual Handling of loads at work
Manual Handling Operation is any transporting or supporting of a load, including the lifting, lowering, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying…
Tool Box Talk: Back Sprains and strains
You may not be aware, but the most commonly experienced workplace injury is also the most avoidable. 50% of US…
A Proposed Rule for Beryllium
OSHA has published a new proposed rule on beryllium exposure that rolls back some requirements for the construction and maritime…
Hazard Communication and Health Hazards
If you work with industrial chemicals each day, then you make your living in a high-risk work environment. Chemicals are…
Site Equipment and Tools Inspection Procedure
This guide line enable you To establish minimum requirements regarding the site tools and Equipment inspection are available for use…
Reporting Near-Misses
Understanding the benefits and barriers of 'Near-Miss' reporting is essential to recognize that near misses happen every day in the workplace.Near…
Confined Spaces Safety Tips
These Safety Tips examines real hazards in real work environments. The safety tip video explains ways to stay safe while working with…