PARAGOULD, AR — Allen Engineering Corp. was awarded the Accumulative Safety Award on Thursday, August 29, 2019 for having worked three years without a lost day away from work. The Accumulative Safety Award is an high achievement for any company. In the past twenty-five years only 688 of these awards have been given, and in […]
Source: CONEXPO/CON-AGG Due to the constant movement of people and equipment on a jobsite, construction jobs demand high levels of alertness. Sleep deprivation and fatigue affect many aspects of worker safety (including response time, motor control and decision-making ability, to name a few) and can easily go unnoticed. Todd Dawson, project manager for fatigue services, […]
WATERTOWN, SD – Terex Utilities has updated the monitor display for the Terex Load Alert system. Load Alert monitors and analyzes the truck’s jib and platform capacity and boom positions on Terex aerial devices. It provides visible and audible alerts when an overload is detected. Load Alert monitors boom angle, platform and jib capacity, winch […]
Source: Safety Law Matters / Avi Meyerstein Last week, OSHA began a potential rulemaking process to expand what some might consider exceptions to the 2016 silica rule in construction. Here’s what we know… On July 29th, OSHA submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) what likely will be a future public request for […]
Source: EHS Today Trenching and excavation continue to place workers in the construction and utility industries in dangerous positions. The private construction industry was responsible for 80% of trenching fatalities between 2011 and 2016, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. OSHA’s National Emphasis Program (NEP) in Trenching and Excavation specifically requires agency investigators to […]