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Preventing Falls: How Contractors can Master Ladder Safety One Step at a Time

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In this blog, let’s break down the major causes of ladder-related injuries, the safety essentials for contractors, and how to ensure safety and compliance for your workers at all times! Issues may also arise when calculating the proper weight needed to sustain the integrity of the ladder. This ensures workers climb at a slower pace.

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Preventing Falls: How Contractors can Master Ladder Safety One Step at a Time

Safety Services Company

In this blog, let’s break down the major causes of ladder-related injuries, the safety essentials for contractors, and how to ensure safety and compliance for your workers at all times! Issues may also arise when calculating the proper weight needed to sustain the integrity of the ladder. This ensures workers climb at a slower pace.

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OSHRC Decision on Controlling Employer Responsibility

FDR Safety

One of Suncor’s subcontractors had two employees scheduled to inspect the welds, requiring them to enter the heater and climb to the third level of the scaffold where the guardrails were missing. After several hours, one subcontractor employee working on the third level of the scaffold fell 25 feet, sustaining serious injuries.

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Amputations in Manufacturing – A New OSHA National Emphasis Program

FDR Safety

OSHA Area Offices may add, based on local evidence, manufacturing establishments (regardless of the NAICS codes) to the master list where amputation injuries or fatalities related to machinery and equipment have occurred in the five years preceding the effective date of this Instruction.

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7 Construction Trends That Will Propel the Industry in 2022

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The 3D printing market is growing at an accelerated rate as developers turn to more affordable, sustainable, and readily accessible sources. They can, for example, perform a visual inspection of high-risk areas like tall buildings, smokestacks, and partially completed bridges. Here are some trends that deserve a deeper dive.

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What Type of Hard Hats are Not ANSI Approved?

Work Gearz

Hard hats save the worker from any head injury do to hit bye above head objects hangings moving machinery’s and while loading and unloading objects. But not every hard hat can save you from the head injuries because the ones that are not approved by OSHA and meets the ANSI standards do not guarantee safety. They protect against burns.

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What Color Hard Hat do Electricians Wear?

Work Gearz

There are certain gears which help in reducing workplace injuries. The hat saves you from head trauma due to contact with falling objects, electrical shock or burns and injuries due to striking low overhead objects. To save their head from injury, use of a hard hat becomes essential. Must sustain electric shocks.

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