Safety

Utilities and contractors have a duty to protect employees and provide a safe work environment, but many fail to supply or specify all...

You know that good performance workwear and personal protective equipment is an investment. You wear these every day for hours on end...

At 20-years-old, Regina McMichael’s husband died after falling off a roof at a job site where he was working. That was the...

Everyone plays a role in preventing damages to underground utility infrastructure. AEM continues to support the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) and asks its members to help spread awareness of the need to...

Summer is a great time for business, but a brutal time for workers. Excessive heat and sun exposure pose significant dangers, such...

Effective communication is key to the success of any contractor. One of the best tools for improving on-the-job communication is two-way radios. Two-way...

In April 2021, a Long Island contracting company was ordered to cease all excavating operations and pay $136,000 in penalties, the result of a...

So you see a colleague violating a safety procedure while operating a combo vac truck. Or breaking an office ethics protocol. Or doing...

On any given day, between 800 and 900 employees at Thompson Industrial Services fan out from 22 strategically located facilities, along with...

Safety and quality are two of the most inseparable components to success on a job site. You can’t have one without the other. And...

In 2018, Nor-Cal Pipeline Services of West Sacramento, California, had no recordable-injury incidents. And in 2019, the company, which does hydroexcavating, sewer...

The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a national nonprofit trade association dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near...

Technicians at Abacus Plumbing in Houston, Texas, are now significantly less prone to distractions while driving than they were earlier this year...

Hydroexcavation is often promoted as a safer method of excavation — and in almost all ways, it is. But that doesn’t mean...

So you see a colleague violating a safety procedure while operating a combo vac truck. Or breaking an office ethics protocol. Or doing...

Discussions of safety in confined spaces and other dangerous environments often center on protecting employees from toxic gases, falls or other big...

Collections system workers are injured or killed almost every year using pneumatic plugs. This entertaining, yet informative video highlights the dangers associated with the use of...