Pre-shift Inspection Tip for Lifts: Check Your Lug Nuts and Pins
When operating heavy equipment, including boom and scissor lifts, a pre-shift or pre-trip inspection is critical. These inspections include a visual check for a range of problems...
Why Holding Toolbox Talks Daily is Not Too Often
Research shows that when it comes to these brief safety meetings, more is better. Short and specific to the tasks at hand, toolbox talks serve multiple purposes. They remind...
How Often Do You Review Your Safety Program’s Performance?
Your company may have most of the elements of a great safety program in place, including commitment and support from management, regular site-specific safety meetings and ongoing...
What Are Your Company’s Core Safety Principles?
Does your company have a set of rules for employees that may not be broken?
Reduce Incident Rates with Better New Hire Safety Orientations
Want to slash your company’s TRIR (total recordable incident rate) and DART (days away, restricted or transferred) scores in half? Beef up your new hire safety orientation program...
Safety Tips for Framing Contractors
Framing is dangerous work. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2017 the incidence rate of recordable nonfatal injuries and illnesses for this group was 7.5. The bulk of...
When to Replace Your Personal Fall Protection Equipment
Yvonne Cumpian, a Certified Master Trainer with United Academy, the training branch of United Rentals, asks workers to put their fall protection equipment on a table during one of...
Fitness Tips for Keeping Your Crews Injury Free
Help reduce the risk of musculoskeletal problems with these six strategies. Technology, from automatic bricklayers to bionic arms and exoskeletons , will eventually take a load off...
Protecting Workers from the Other Sun Hazard: Skin Cancer
Sweating it out in the heat on a jobsite is no fun and can even be dangerous, which is why it’s so important for employers to have a heat illness prevention plan . But heat-related...
Good Construction Safety Meeting Topics for Summer
Summer poses a double safety whammy: Your construction business is in full swing, which means workers are probably putting in more hours, and the heat of the season is making their...
