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Safety Around Powerlines: Part I

FDR Safety

Overhead lines: One thing to pay attention to when you are at your jobsite is your location and proximity to overhead lines or utility poles. If you are operating tall equipment or removing trees that may be in contact with an overhead line you may become that easiest path to ground.

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Construction Safety Meetings: 7 Key Topics You Need to Address

Safety Services Company

No matter what you call them — safety meetings can be an effective way to quickly incorporate safety into your day-to-day operation without interfering with production. We’ve put together a list of the top 7 construction safety meeting topics you should be addressing regularly. The Importance of Safety Meetings.

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Make Crane Safety Priority One!

Constructonomics

This post was written by SPANCO, an industry leader in overhead cranes since 1979. Moving heavy loads around a work environment demands careful attention to safety. Operators and workers should be trained in the crane’s capabilities, movements, speed, control settings, and safety devices. We’ll cover a few of the basics here.

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Second-term advice: Bring OSHA regs into 21st Century

FDR Safety

That confusion leads to safety practices that are not in the best interests of workers. In my opinion, with an updated set of standards, employers would better know what to do, safety practices would improve, and injuries and fatalities would drop. Because many are outdated, they leave employers confused about what to do.

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Door Closer Hinges: A New Approach

Construction Specifier

Innovative engineering has made closer hinges more compact and functional; the new generation of products provides unique combinations of features and benefits to address door closing challenges that are not satisfactorily met by overhead surface-mounted door closers. Performance. The closer hinges have built-in door stops. Aesthetics.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

Job Order Contracting

coefficient (reference table of allowable overhead). ORGANIZATION NAME Technical Staff / Facilities Management Department Representative(s) and authorized ORGANIZATION NAME Procurement Authority review the Contractor’s Proposal. The UPB costs should NOT include contractor overhead and profit. Safety Nets. authorization.

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Avoiding common OSHA recordkeeping mistakes

FDR Safety

3) Not reporting work-related injuries from employees who are working from home or traveling for business related events. If your employee is on an airplane on a business trip out of town and injures his or her shoulder while lifting a bag into the overhead compartment, then it would be a recordable injury on your log.

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