This video encourages you not to cut corners with people's safety. Below are a few devices that we carry to try to make operating a ladder safer and easier.

Protecting your eyesight on the job is serious business. The video above impresses the importance of making sure you use properly rated ANSI Z87 safety glasses. The consequences of shoddy or imitation safety glasses is not worth the low cost.

Here are some protective eye wear solutions...

(FOREST GROVE, Ore.) Fire officials say one person died and a second was successfully rescued today, after they became trapped in the confined space of an underground manhole on NW Timmerman Road west of Forest Grove. This recent headline could have been taken from just about any newspaper...

We sell safety products, thats a fact.  However, we are not under the illusion that simply having the right product will always protect you or your workers from an accident.  In addition to having the right protective gear you have to have the right mind set in regard to safety.

Safety Culture...

A fall arrest system is the kind of fall protection which includes the safe stopping of a person already falling. It is one of many forms of fall protection, which also include fall guarding and fall

OSHA specifies under Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations that...

A confined space is any space that:

A...

If youve watched any of the Olympic events at the Whistler Sliding Centre then youve already caught a glimpse of Kee Klamp railing in action. The sliding courses are lined with hundreds of linear feet of pedestrian guardrail to keep people off the course. The usage of the railings at such a...

Promoting safety and safe working conditions does not always have to be dry or serious.  Sometimes some humor can help drive the point home.  These guys over at Dominion Power obviously think so!

Skylight screens are a form of fall protection that prevents workers on the roof top from falling into skylights. We have updated the skylight screens section of our web site. We invite you to see the update pictures, features and technical information that is available about our skylight...

Changes in the legislation in states like California have made dependence upon solar energy, not only more appealing, but a requirement.  California is specifically pushing hard for rooftop solar installations.  Rooftop solar installations mean exposure to fall hazards.  Fall hazards increase...

Discovery Channel has a new show called Prototype This.  This year they featured fall protection by creating a prototype of a wearable airbag.  I love how the guys says, I dont know why this shouldnt be on the market and the guy who is working is wrapped in something the size of a small...

OSHA is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) and increasing civil penalty amounts in an effort to address urgent safety and health problems. The SVEP allows OSHA to focus enforcement on recalcitrant employers who endanger workers with indifference to their safety...

On April 22, 2010, David Michaels issued a memo to the OSHA Regional Administrators outlining changes to OSHAs penalty policies. Some of these administrative changes are being made now and will end with the advanced reprogramming of government computers and updating OSHA Information System...

OSHA is raising its penalties. This is the first time that OSHA raised its penalties since 1990. A serious violation, one that may cause death or serious injury is raised from a maximum of $7,000 to $12,000, with the average fine $3,000-4,000, up from $1,000. The maximum penalty for a willful...

Kee Safety has launched a new line of components for building horizontal lifeline systems. These lifeline systems are designed to take the mystery out of shock absorbing lifeline systems by revealing everything to the installer and user.  Unlike the fall over can systems, the Kee Line system...

We have had this product available for a while, but have never featured it properly.  KeeGuard Metal Roof Top Railings are designed to protect workers who are operating around a roof edge on a metal building.  The use of S-5! clips and connectors, means that the railing system will not...

Kee Safety has released an innovative new rooftop walkway system.  The system, designed with safety and installation in mind has combined various attachment methods to make installation of this modular system a snap. 

Aluminum rails are the base of the system, attached to the roof via

Since June we added over 70 new safety consultants, trainers, installers and experts to our safety network.  If you have not taken the time to sign up, do so today!  Its free to get your business information listed. 

Here are some of the advantages of being listed:

OSHA has their own education centers across the United States.  Most of them are located at major US universities and colleges.  The entire listing of education centers has been added to the network!

Search for OSHA Training in the Simplified Safety Network.

We recently had the opportunity to visit the site of one of our recent roof railing customers in PA.  The scope of the project was full roof perimeter protection on two buildings.  Their rooftop fall protection included roof railing, skylight screens, and safety gates for ladder access points...

In my experience,  it is not uncommon to hear of self-retracting lifelines and/or lanyards daisy-chained together to create a longer connection to an anchor point.  This typically happens when someone buys a product that is long enough for an application on one job, but finds that they need...

Kee Walk is a rooftop walk way system built-in modular sections to allow for easy installation. In this video, Kee Safety shows you how to mount a traverse section of Kee Walk to a sloped roof. The ability to create flat walkways on sloped roofs is just one feature of our versatile solution. Kee...

As if falling were not enough, falling onto exposed rebar can turn a survivable fall into a disaster.  Rebar caps protect the falling worker from impaling themselves on the concrete rebar that is protruding during the construction process. 

Rebar...

Kee Walk is a rooftop walkway system that allows you to create level walking surfaces on pitched or angled roofs.  Here are a few examples of how the Kee Walk system is being used to create a safer walking path for people who work on pitched roofs.  You can find out more about Kee Walk on the