The winter season continues to create an inordinate amount of storm activity across North America, forcing businesses to re-evaluate the priority and required...
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14 Steps to Ensure Safety In and Around Trenches and Excavations — Part 2
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part article that discusses 14 steps you and your work crews must plan...
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14 Steps to Ensure Safety In and Around Trenches and Excavations — Part 1
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a two-part article that discusses 14 things you and your work crews must plan...
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There’s No Excuse for Trenching Accidents
The risks, including death, are well known. Despite being easily prevented, cave-ins during trenching and excavation work continue to occur, killing an...
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Brass Knuckle Glove Features Complex Construction for Wide-Ranging Protection
Brass Knuckle safety products from Safety Today Inc. introduces the SmartShell BKCR4599, a heavy-duty protective glove offering wide-ranging protection for extreme jobs. The BKCR4599...
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Rescue Crews Free Contractor Trapped in Sewer
A plumbing contractor in Oakland, California, survived being trapped up to his waist in sand and dirt in a 15-foot-deep hole for nearly...
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What You Need to Know About Confined Space Entry
On May 1, 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new standards aimed at increasing protections for construction workers in...
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Does Your Business Need Workers’ Comp Insurance?
It’s hardly news that many plumbing contractors look at the expense side of the ledger every month with an eye toward trimming...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
The definition of “extreme cold” varies from region to region. In the south, near-freezing temperatures feel downright cold, while in the north...
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Keep Your Workers Focused on Safety
Whether you are required to hold them or not, safety meetings are critical to protecting your workers and your company from the...
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Dressing for the Cold: A Primer on Layering Clothing
Service workers are hardy folk. Regardless of weather, even when the mercury (or digital thermometer, if we want to be a little...
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Contractor Fined $14,000 in Worker’s Drowning Death
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a Massachusetts contractor for two serious violations of workplace safety standards after a...
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Safely Remove Manhole Covers and Drainage Grates
Rock Mills Enterprises has introducted the new Lifter PLUS, which complements and builds on the success of the existing Lifter. The Lifter is designed...
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Liquid Load Handling Tips
Think about when you were a kid competing in an egg relay race at summer camp. You were never so careful about...
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Business Diversification – Septic Pumping, Plumbing
Camera unit helps inspector locate weeping tilesProblem: A home inspector was having a hard time inspecting clogged weeping tiles and sewer lines...
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Contractor Killed in Trench With No Cave-In Protection
The owner of a Wisconsin construction company was killed Nov. 10 when a 10-foot-deep trench he was working in caved in and...
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Practical Training for Confined Spaces
Practice makes perfect. That adage can be applied to the safety training philosophy of Irwin’s Safety. After all, the Calgary, Alberta-based safety...