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7 Key Precautions To Ensure Loading Dock Safety

Construction Marketing

With all the hustle and bustle happening in loading docks, it shouldn’t surprise you that they’re a hotbed for injuries and accidents; countless dangers could occur in a typical dock. Two of the most common causes of accidents on the docks are slippery floors and poorly designed ledges that can pose fatal fall hazards.

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Your New Boss May Not Really Understand Safety | Part 2

FDR Safety

elimination, substitution, engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE). Reduces the potential for serious injuries and fatalities. Lastly, the direct costs of a serious injury (i.e., medical, regulatory, legal) are often known, but may not totaled, visible, or a attributed to a particular injury.

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9 Types of Insurance You Need to Protect Your Contractor Business

Construction Marketing

Between the potential for accidents and injuries on the job site and the risk of lawsuits, it’s important to have insurance to protect yourself from financial losses, but what kind of insurance do you need? Roofing contractors are often at the top of a building, making them more susceptible to accidents.

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Handling Traffic Accidents

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Citing the amount of time consumed filling accident reports on non-injury accidents (estimated at 250 hours a week); there are a number of cities where police have decided not to respond to non-injury traffic accidents. Drivers involved in accidents are expected to perform the steps listed below.

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Engineer Boots vs Motorcycle Boots: What’s the Difference?

Work Gearz

But unlike the name engineer boots, these boots are not for the present day engineers as we might mistake, but were worn by the steam locomotives while working in the railways.    But the point of discussion for this post is what is the difference between engineer boots and motorcycle boots or whether they are the same!

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October 2014 newsletter

FDR Safety

Off-the-job accidents: hidden costs to employers. Off-the-job accidents: hidden costs to employers. Employers may be missing that point as well, losing an opportunity to keep workers safe and avoid the significant costs to their companies that come with off-the-job injuries. Accident Prevention Training' By Fred Rine.

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7 Ways Construction Companies Can Keep Their Workers Safe

Construction Marketing

Statistics show that there are over 400 injuries and over 20 fatalities each year related to construction in Ontario alone. A majority of construction-related injuries occur due to a lack of proper personal protective equipment (PPE), such as helmets and gloves. Providing adequate safety gear. Hire experts. For instance, the U.S.