To assist construction companies with insurance issues, AIG is offering a new program that provides OSHA-specific legal assistance.
OSHA has broadened its exemption for digger derricks in its crane and derricks standard.
After the employee was fatally injured in a saw accident, OSHA penalized his employer with a $140,000 fine.
After receiving nine citations since 2000, a contracting company will be making big changes to improve safety.
After reviewing an appeal from an Ohio-based painting company, a judge has upheld the citations OSHA filed against the company.
The company's CEO said the third quarter is ordinarily soft, but demand increased in multiple product categories. Third-quarter sales were $955.7 million, up 2.2 percent from a year earlier.
Before Dec. 15, conduct an on-site compliance check. Confirm that workers elevated 6 feet or more above the lower level of a structure have OSHA-acceptable forms of fall protection.
Remember: The safest entry is no entry at all!
Head and face PPE should be rated to meet the rigors of the specific job application, including hazard type, amount of protective coverage required, electrical conductivity, heat rating, and ease of use when worn in combination with other PPE.
OSHA is about to begin enforcing an interpretation of 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13), which requires workers 6 feet or more above lower levels to be protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or alternative fall protection measures allowed by other provisions of 29 CFR 1926.501(b) for particular types of work.
It is still a very dangerous business, and even with our best efforts, confined space accidents are still occurring.
The city's Department of Buildings and its Department of Investigation announced the arrests Oct. 25 and said one of the people arrested is a construction company owner charged with possessing 32 fraudulent scaffold certification cards he had made.
The agency also is drafting amendments to its regulations to adapt to OSHA's crane operator accreditation requirement by Nov. 10, 2014.
Safety and health professionals who also have security and environmental responsibility may want to stay a while: Chicago’s McCormick Place plays host to ASIS, Safety Congress, and WEFTEC conferences in a three-week span of September and October.
The subsidiary of Tyco International is also celebrating 80 years of operation and its role in helping to safeguard industrial, military, and fire service customers around the world.
OSHA renewed it for two additional years.
The discovery raises the number of fatalities to four in the partial collapse of a five-story parking garage being built in Doral for Miami Dade College.
Licensed design professionals can submit plans and obtain permits electronically for home renovations, office makeovers, façade repairs, etc.
CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training, unveiled its new design Oct. 4.
The recipients are attending community colleges coast to coast. The distribution giant also has designated October as "Skilled Trades Awareness Month."