The broadcast at 10 a.m. Central time is a roundtable discussion in which company representatives will share safety best practices and how they train employees.
Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood recently announced that Pittsburgh International and Allegheny County Airports will receive the first funding allocations for airport infrastructure projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
"The shrouded mystery of electricity compels many safety managers to depend upon plant electrical maintenance or engineering departments to manage their electrical safety program," writes Phil Allen, president and owner of Grace Engineered Products.
Through the partnership, APCa has developed 10 fact sheets so far, all describing best safety practices when working with equipment such as backhoes, sidebooms, and trenching machines.
Oregon OSHA Administrator Michael Wood, shown here, announced the 2008 total, 44, on Tuesday at the 2009 Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference in Salem.
Following an investigation of the Sept. 12, 2008, incident that killed four workers, the company has been charged with violating the OSH Act.
Letters of intent to create the center are due by March 16. NIOSH expects to make one award of up to $5 million per year for five years to support the center, with the intention of making it a national information resource for all construction stakeholders.
"With this recovery package, we will be creating jobs, saving jobs, and putting money in people's pockets," Biden said.
"We would like to ensure all construction companies--big and small--are prepared to effectively control the workplace hazards their employees may encounter," said Nick Walters, OSHA's area director in Peoria.
OSHA standards require an effective form of fall protection whenever employees work at heights of six feet or greater.
OSHA has is inviting employers from Connecticut and southern New England to attend a free March 12 meeting at Wesleyan University in Middletown to learn about the agency's Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP).
One in 17 British carpenters born in the 1940s will die of the cancer of the lining of the lungs caused by asbestos, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Phillip S. Ezzell, a longtime trainer, is asking independent examiners, training companies, and user organizations to form the Crane Operator Examiners Association at a March 30 meeting in Las Vegas, Nev.
The first-ever joint visit by the sitting president and vice president to the U.S. Department of Transportation took place today, with Obama and Biden announcing $26.6 billion is now available to the Federal Highway Administration. Biden's office said the $28 billion in stimulus money going to states for road and bridge projects will lead to 150,000 jobs saved or created by the end of 2010.
The national winner will be announced on the first-ever (and henceforth annual) National Sun Safety Day ("Don't Fry Day")--May 22. Winning posters will receive state and national prizes, with the top national winner receiving a family trip to Disney World and a WeatherBug Tracking Station for his/her school.
It is a dangerous business to make your living hundreds of feet off the ground. We’ve come a long way from the cavalier attitude so often depicted in the popular prints of the Rockefeller center construction project: the long line of ironworkers having their lunch on a suspended beam high above the ground.
The Construction Safety Council offers a free online course that requires six to eight hours to complete, depending on the study's existing knowledge of excavations. No college or CE credits are awarded for the course.
The Associated General Contractors of America is offering Susan Harwood Grant training on Focus Four Hazards in Construction (falls, electrocutions, struck-by's, caught betweens) at 14 locations this year.
According to OSHA, A-1 Excavating has received 38 citations from the agency since 1982, including at least eight citations for hazards associated with potential cave-ins, and seven citations for having the spoil pile too close to the trench edge.
Released Jan. 12, 2009, by the U.S. Department of Labor and Associated General Contractors of America, the model gives educators a clearer picture of the skills students needed to succeed in construction careers.