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Safety Tips: Prevent Fires and Burns on Your Construction Site

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Startling data from OSHA states that burn-related injuries make up 5% of fatalities in construction sites. Working with oil, electrical equipment, and even lingering flammable debris can raise the level of risk. welding, cutting, brazing, or grinding), a permit should be required. Proper storage and disposal is a must.

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Understanding OSHA’s Confined Space Requirements

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UNDERSTANDING OSHA’S CONFINED SPACE REQUIREMENTS. Confined spaces pose serious risks such as entrapment, exposure to noxious fumes, physical injury, and suffocation due to lack of airflow. By OSHA’s standards, not all work spaces without windows or ventilation are considered a confined space.

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Understanding OSHA’s Confined Space Requirements

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Understanding OSHA's Confined Space Requirements. Confined spaces pose serious risks such as entrapment, exposure to noxious fumes, physical injury, and suffocation due to lack of airflow. By OSHA's standards, not all work spaces without windows or ventilation are considered a confined space. What is a Permit-Required Space?

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Where Maryland’s State Plan is Stricter Than OSHA

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Federal OSHA regulations are simply the minimum standard. Maryland OSHA (MOSH) is one of the “state plan” states that administer their own “mini-OSHA.” MOSH has beefed up their regulations on everything from: Excavation designs. Excavation Design. MOSH decided that risks of tree care (e.g. Entering Manholes.

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Top 6 Most Dangerous Construction Activities

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If you’re a construction safety veteran, your safety program is well established and falls in line with OSHA requirements. Additional formalized training, especially for these high risk topics, is a huge improvement for cultivating a safety culture. Most fall and ladder accidents are preventable when following OSHA guidelines.

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Process Safety vs. Personal Safety

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For anyone working in safety or in a high-risk industry such as a refinery or manufacturing plant, you’re probably heard the term process safety. Process safety is primarily aimed at putting in place controls to mitigate the risk of major and potentially catastrophic events in the workplace. Process Safety vs. Personal Safety.

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Comparing Liquid and Sheet-applied Bridge Deck Waterproofing Membranes

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However, over the past few decades, more bridge engineers are specifying liquid waterproofing membranes to help extend the design life of the bridge and accelerate project completion. Gain stronger adhesion for improved design life. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) warns that “all hot work is potentially hazardous.”