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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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Confined spaces pose serious risks such as entrapment, exposure to noxious fumes, physical injury, and suffocation due to lack of airflow. WHAT IS A PERMIT-REQUIRED SPACE? Furthermore, a confined space isn’t always a permit-required space. UNDERSTANDING OSHA’S CONFINED SPACE REQUIREMENTS.

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Understanding OSHA’s Confined Space Requirements

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Confined spaces pose serious risks such as entrapment, exposure to noxious fumes, physical injury, and suffocation due to lack of airflow. What is a Permit-Required Space? Furthermore, a confined space isn't always a permit-required space. A permit-required space contains objects that are big enough to engulf a person.

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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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Top 6 Most Dangerous Construction Activities

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Additional formalized training, especially for these high risk topics, is a huge improvement for cultivating a safety culture. Here are the top 6 training courses for the construction industry that address high risk activities: 1. workers that enter permitted confined spaces annually? Fall Protection and Ladder Safety.

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Can Construction Workers Wear Tank Tops?

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Construction workers have to wear clothes that provide them with more coverage and protection so as to minimize the chances of injuries and accidents at work. . Construction workers are almost always at the risk of scratching or cutting themselves from bumping or carrying objects. Why can’t construction workers wear tank tops? .

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Marijuana Regulation at Work: Your Responsibilities

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With 8 states that have approved the use of recreational marijuana and 18 states permitting the use of medical marijuana, it’s critical for companies operating in these areas to understand their legal responsibilities and how to deal with cannabis use at worksites. California. Massachusetts. Washington.