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4 Ways To Improve Construction Safety In High-Traffic Areas

Construction Marketing

Thus, as an employer or construction company entrepreneur, you’re responsible for ensuring the safety of your employees, pedestrians, and motorists whenever you have construction work in progress. Injuries and, in severe cases, permanent disabilities or deaths can happen if there are very few preventative safety measures in place.

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7 Key Precautions To Ensure Loading Dock Safety

Construction Marketing

Of course, these are hardly the only safety issues in loading bays. Collisions can happen and compromise not just the dock operations but also the goods being moved and the safety of the workers. Ensuring loading dock safety requires a proactive approach from both the management and employees of the warehouse facility. .

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NAHB Offers Strategies and Resources for Managing Mental Health

Pro Builder

And when a construction worker is struggling to manage mental health issues, it can compromise both their own safety on the jobsite and the safety of those around them. As a part of its ongoing initiative regarding members’ mental health and well-being, NAHB recently created a new video “toolbox talk” on mental health.

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6 Dangers Of Falling Debris In Construction Sites

Construction Marketing

Regardless of the type of injury in the workplace, whether due to falling debris or poor safety practices, someone is always liable. A lack of sufficient safety training might cause falling debris in the workplace. One of the most crucial concerns is providing workers with proper training in building site safety procedures.

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Wearable Biometric Sensor Brings Better Data on Heat-Related Illness in Construction

ENR Construction

A new wearable sensor is offering construction workers and safety managers an early warning signal when someone on the jobsite is showing signs of heat exhaustion.

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Good Safety Signage

FDR Safety

There are good safety signs, bad safety signs and those that don’t tell you anything. An example of a “bad safety sign” is shown to the right. Notice the horrible placement and lack of context on the sign itself. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK” is an example of this type of sign.

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The Complexity Of OSHA’s PSM Standard

FDR Safety

FDRsafety continues to encounter situations where worker training is incomplete or lacking, especially in safety. I recently attended the 2 nd Annual Process Safety Summit in Washington DC on Oct 15-16, 2019. I do not like standard safety signs and warnings because they typically mean little to the worker.

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