Avoiding Needless Tragedy

A federal workplace safety investigation has found a Glenburn general contractor's decisions to ignore an onsite expert's repeated warnings and the company's own site-specific safety...

You May Never Feel a Thing

Portland cement, specifically when wet, is a caustic and abrasive substance found in building materials, such as concrete, mortar, plaster, grout, stucco, and terrazzo....

The War on Jobsite Injuries

Remote-controlled Demolition Machines: On a Mission for Safety By Peter Bigwood Shards of concrete, high working heights, falling rubble, piles of metal rebar—it’s often what a...
safety culture

The First Priority

Building a top-notch safety culture doesn’t happen overnight. Getting buy-in from employees requires a top-down approach starting with the executive officers. “Safety First” can’t...
Worker Dangling a Foot

Fall Protection FAQs: Three Things You Need to Know

As a construction professional, you’ve likely mastered the basics of fall protection since your first days on the job. Using the right equipment and...

Wearables

Wearables have become a very fashionable topic in the construction industry, but it’s not all window dressing, every day, wearables are promoting health, safety,...

VIZZ Headlamps

For professional trades like utilities, facility maintenance, and construction, Princeton Tec’s industrial-grade VIZZ series headlamps are designed to provide powerful, lasting, reliable, hands-free illumination...

On-Site Safety

Having a dedicated risk and safety director pays dividends By Murray Rice I have been running a construction company for 15 years, and I am always...

The Real Cost of Falls: Why it pays to be safe

It’s time to face the facts—falls happen. Most serious work-related injuries and deaths commonly result from falls that can and should be prevented. In...
construction site accidents

Why technology may be the answer to workplace accidents in the...

Every year, accidents on construction sites across the globe lead to fatalities and serious injuries. Indeed, incidents such as falling from scaffolding or being...