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

Safety Services Company

So, with falls being a fear for contractors, initiatives like National Ladder Safety Month are vital. Here at Safety Services Company, we are committed to observing initiatives like these to save lives and build a strong safety culture. To add, you face potential legal repercussions and a loss of productivity.

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

Safety Services Company

So, with falls being a fear for contractors, initiatives like National Ladder Safety Month are vital. Here at Safety Services Company, we are committed to observing initiatives like these to save lives and build a strong safety culture. To add, you face potential legal repercussions and a loss of productivity.

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Contractor Management and Prequalification: Why Are They Necessary?

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Contractor management is a series of checks ensuring that the contractors follow up-to-date safety practices and conform to health and regulatory standards. Avoiding Legal Issues Hiring clients hire a licensed contractor to save themselves from legal liabilities and low-quality work.

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Reopening Minnesota: What Businesses Need to Know about Workplace Safety and Preventing the Spread of Covid-19

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The plan, which was first referred to as Executive Order 20-74, enables businesses to transition into operations by complying with mandated health department and governmental guidelines. These guidelines should also meet the state executive orders associated with health and safety in the workplace. Workplace Safety Solutions.

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Adjusting During A Pandemic: Skepticism Abounds – It Can’t Happen to Me… or Can it? Part 2

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This blog utilizes research and data from a range of professional safety journals (i.e., Professional Safety) and research reports, and blends it with economic realities and common company leadership expectations. It is written as a series for those who are new to safety or have an expanded role within safety.

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Construction quality management: Everything you need to know

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It requires written standards that can be referred to at any time by employees, sub-contractors, and clients alike. If it’s a new situation, it may be necessary to devise workarounds to issues as diverse as legal risks, worker training, or cash flow concerns. Construction quality management is broadly similar to project management.

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OSHA Alert: How to Prepare for an OSHA Inspection

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The representative, ideally the Safety and Health Director or Manager or someone in upper management, should be well-versed in OSHA standards applicable to the business, health and safety conditions of the workplace under inspection, location of required records to be kept under OSHA (e.g.

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