From Climbers to Contractors
For more than two centuries, workers, sportsmen, and rescuers have been challenging some of the world’s highest, steepest, and toughest rocks, ice flows, and...
Four Steps to Keep Workers Safe in Severe Heat
Summer may be winding down, but in many regions, the heat hasn’t fully subsided yet. No one likes the feeling of being out in...
The Green Light for Safety
By Troy Geisler
Safety on the jobsite is easy to recognize with hardhats, earplugs, and blinding neon vests. But beyond the jobsite, when hauling equipment...
Less Injuries
The construction industry is easily one of the country’s riskiest. Approximately 20% of worker deaths in the U.S. occur in the construction field, even...
The Power of Pre-Task Safety and Health Plans
Pre-Task Planning is necessary to make any construction project successful. “Pre-Task Safety and Health Planning” is necessary to promote a safer and healthier work...
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...
Verifying the Training
FAST FACT:
Fast Fact: An estimated 6.5 million people work at approximately 252,000 construction sites across the U.S. on any given day. According to...
Invest in Safety: Part 2 of 2
Training needs to be continuous to be effective. When delivering training, too many businesses sign people up for a seminar, or provide an annual...
Invest in Safety: Part 1 of 2
When Paul O’Neill started as the Alcoa CEO in 1987, the aluminum manufacturing giant was in trouble. Several of its recent product launches had...
Key Solutions for Safer Sites
Nothing is more important than the physical safety and mental wellbeing of workers,” says Teresa Kee, vice president of health and safety, United Rentals....