20 How to’s for Construction Work Safety
20 How to’s for Construction Work Safety
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Enhance your construction work safety with these 20 essential ‘how-to’ guidelines.
Lone Worker: A Comprehensive Safety Guide
Lone Worker: A Comprehensive Safety Guide
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Lone workers are individuals who perform their job duties in isolation, without immediate access to colleagues or direct supervision. While this type of work is common in many industries, it poses unique risks to the safety and well-being of workers. Protecting lone workers is not only a matter of ensuring
Bench Grinder Operations: A Complete Safety Guide
Bench Grinder Operations: A Complete Safety Guide
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A bench grinder is essential for anyone working with metal, wood, or tools that require precise maintenance. This stationary power tool has abrasive wheels that rotate at high speeds to grind, sharpen, and polish various materials effectively. Whether you’re restoring dull tools, shaping metal, or refining wood or plastic surfaces,
Compressed Gas: How To Handle Safely
Compressed Gas: How To Handle Safely
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It is common knowledge that many industries, including power, manufacturing, agriculture, and health care, as well as labs and welding shops, normally use compressed gas cylinders. But are you aware of the pressure consumed in the compressed gas cylinders? And what will happen if one makes a mistake handling it?
Pallet Trucks: A Guide To Safe & Efficient Use
Pallet Trucks: A Guide To Safe & Efficient Use
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Pallet trucks are also referred to as pallet jacks. Pallet trucks are used in warehouses, factories, and other industries to efficiently move palletized goods. Due to their simple and strong design, pallet trucks make handling heavy loads quite easy with little effort. Workers can quickly move items around without much
Scaffolding Safety: A Complete Guide
Scaffolding Safety: A Complete Guide
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Scaffolding is one of the components that spans many industries, including construction and maintenance, and helps workers get to elevated areas of their workplace safely. Overhead protection is essential while working with scaffolds because, if set up or used incorrectly, it can result in dangerous falls. OSHA (Occupational Safety and
Overhead & Gantry Crane Safety: A Complete Guide
Overhead & Gantry Crane Safety: A Complete Guide
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Overhead and gantry cranes play a vital role in industrial and construction settings, allowing workers to move heavy loads with ease and efficiency. However, the use of these cranes introduces specific hazards that, if not properly managed, can lead to serious accidents, injuries, and even fatalities. Understanding the common hazards
Arc Flash: How To Stay Safe
Arc Flash: How To Stay Safe
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Arc flash Protection ARC FLASH? ARC FLASH: A Hidden Danger THE SCIENCE BEHIND THEM What is an arc flash? It is a light and heat produced from an electric arc. When supplied with sufficient electrical energy, it can result in an arc blast, which causes considerable damage, harm, fire, or
What Is DOT Compliance? How To Achieve It?
What Is DOT Compliance? How To Achieve It?
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The Department of Transportation holds a large body of rules and regulations for commercial fleets to ensure the health and safety of workers in the transportation industry. DOT Regulations govern and regulate different segments of the industry including vehicle maintenance and inspection requirements, driver’s qualifications and criteria, and recordkeeping. DOT
Halloween Special: Three Haunting Horror Worksite Stories
Halloween Special: Three Haunting Horror Worksite Stories
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Three Terrifying Construction Horror Stories Construction sites are known for their heavy machinery, dangerous tools, and high risks. But what if there’s something more unsettling lurking on the job? Some workers have experienced terrifying encounters that go beyond workplace accidents; encounters that seem otherworldly. This Halloween, we bring you three
Understanding OSHA’s Recordkeeping and Reporting
Understanding OSHA’s Recordkeeping and Reporting
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for ensuring workplace safety in almost every industry that exists in the United States. Among the important features of the occupational safety and health regulatory framework of OSHA are those features that have to do with recordkeeping and reporting requirements. These regulations
How Many Construction Workers Are Electrocuted?
How Many Construction Workers Are Electrocuted?
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The World's Largest Employer 10 Million More than 10 million people work in the construction sector. Many of those individuals are working in specialized construction activities that include demolition, renovation, site preparation, electrical installation, roofing, plumbing, scaffolding, and much more. According to various estimates, construction is the biggest employer in