Safety

The ability to hear is something most people probably take for granted until it’s gone. October is National Protect Your Hearing Month,...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a Pennsylvania sewer worker who was killed when a 12-foot-deep trench...

All businesses need to take reasonable efforts to ensure the safety and physical well-being of their employees, but maintaining high standards of...

It’s not complicated. If you have employees, you are subject to OSHA regulations.“Oftentimes you see people who think they are exempt. There...

The five-year anniversary of the Copiapó mine rescue in Chile has special significance for the employees of Aries Industries. The Wisconsin-based company designed and...

The Damage Information Reporting Tool (DIRT) Report recently released by the Common Ground Alliance’s (CGA) confirmed the importance of making a free call...

What started as a way for Rob Sweeney to send texts and emails to his technology-challenged mother has grown into a way...

In fall 2003, No-DigTec tackled an unusually challenging job: replacing 200 feet of a collapsed 6-inch sewer line running underneath the Children’s...

Josephina Guzman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.An underground explosion shot a nearly 300-pound manhole cover through the floor of...

Safety products manufacturer, Checkers Industrial Products, has acquired SVE Portable Roadway Systems. As an industry leader in temporary roadways and ground protection systems,...

A construction worker who was part of a crew working on a sewer main replacement project in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, died last week...

SENSIT Technologies, a global leader in gas detection and measurement instruments, recently announced that its HXG-2d Combustible Gas Leak Detector received ATEX...

You may not spend as much time working in roadways as a highway construction worker, but work zones on streets and roadways...

A contractor using a utility locating system appears to be a magician of sorts. By slowly waving a wand through the air,...

Training a good CCTV inspection operator doesn’t happen by accident; it requires precise planning. This will ensure that training covers every important...

The owner of a Florida tree service company will spend 15 years in prison for aggravated manslaughter of a child in the...

Workers in the construction industry now have the same confined space protections that those in manufacturing and general industry have had for...