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Basic Health and Safety Workplace Expectations for Construction Employers

With so many rules and regulations to follow it can be easy to forget the basic standard you are expected to provide for your employees

Construction employers are required to provide hard hats, high visibility jackets and any other essential uniform that is there as a means to keep the staff safe.

Memorial Day Safety Reminder

Give your employees a safety reminder to enjoy their Holiday.

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Capital Safety Donating Fall Protection Equipment, Training to Habitat for Humanity

3M Fall Protection Business (formerly Capital Safety)

Equipment will be used by workers doing work at height, including roof-related work at the build sites.

Study: In-Vehicle Video Could Sharply Reduce Truck Accidents

The best safety monitoring systems use in-vehicle video to identify risky driving behaviors that can be corrected, reducing future crash risk

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Take a Stand on Fall Protection

Falls account for more than a third of all deaths in the construction industry. Now OSHA offers an opportunity to "stand down" against them.

National Safety Stand-down week encourages construction firms to host safety stand-downs that focus on recognizing hazards and preventing falls.

PSE Amber Matrix System

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LED Flood Light

Buyers Products Co.

Rectangular flood light offers easy mounting on trucks and trailers

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Uvex Hypershock Safety Eyewear

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Video: Behind-the-Scenes with Cat B15 Smart Phone Test

Watch this to learn about the making of "Gravity", a video highlighting the ruggedness of the Cat B15 Smartphone.

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IPAF Supports OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down for Fall Prevention

International Powered Access Federation (IPAF)

OSHA is promoting a National Safety Stand-Down during the week of June 2-6, 2014, in an effort to raise awareness among employers and workers in the construction industry about the hazards of falls.

NIOSH Evaluates Smartphone Sound Measurement Apps

After testing, NIOSH only approved four iOS smartphone sound measurement apps as meeting NIOSH standards

Failure to Provide Fall Protection Resulted in Construction Worker's Death

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

OsHA concluded that if general construction contractor MTL Design Inc. would have provided and ensured the use of fall protection safeguards a 23-year-old worker's death could have been prevented

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