Finding a solution to use is just the first step in implementing a safe working environment. Making sure that it is installed correctly is just as vital. You have a few options to make sure that this is done correctly.

To reduce costs and provide timely service, John Blonien, Fleet Director for Milwaukee County, decided to pour a concrete pit. However, after the pit was installed, John realized a cover was needed to avoid someone falling into the pit.

It’s tempting to jump straight to PPE. Don’t rush to do this as PPE puts the user in contact with the hazard. Administrative Controls are worth considering. In fact, you already have these in your workplace, but they may not be implemented effectively.

Here are three factors that...

There are ways to prevent forklift accidents from happening. But should you rely on your operators to perform perfectly at every turn? Even the best forklift operators make mistakes.

There are many options that you can use to protect your warehouse. Here are 7 solutions to protect the...

Mechanical rooftop unit maintenance comes with a fair share of risk to the employee. Depending on the unit, this can range from electrical hazards to falls from height.

Some units are too tall for workers to easily access. This can result in setting up inappropriate platforms, like...

In January 2021, a 22-car derailment occurred in New Brunswick because a key component caused a coupler to fail. This caused an adjacent highway to be closed for 5 days, especially when eight of the cars carried hazardous materials.

There are many reasons why derailments can happen. These...

Roof safety doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Having 10 different buildings with HVACs doesn’t mean that you must have thousands of feet of rooftop guardrail.  

Let’s be honest, most budgets don’t accommodate the cost for that much railing. So, what do you do? 

We worked with a...

Does your worksite have temporary workers? Temporary workers are paid by a staffing agency and are assigned to a host employer (the staffing firm's client) for both quick and long-term jobs. These jobs may be short-term or permanent but staffed by temporary workers. The host employer and the...

Most employers, at some point, must hire contractors or external vendors to work on-site. These outside parties generally perform non-routine work without much oversite. Hiring contractors introduces risk to the company.  

Contractors can be beneficial for accomplishing a site’s goals...

Impact barriers are a crucial engineering control when working with forklifts inside your facility or warehouse. Impact barriers are physical barriers that are intended to keep building components, storage racking, objects, equipment, materials, and people protected from the dangers of...

Every work environment, every task, every piece of equipment, and every single worker are different. 

It would be foolish to think that a company could plan for safety with a one-size-fits-all process.  Yet, many companies still attempt to do just that – provide a one-size-fits-all...

There are many safety and health organizations that a safety professional or the person in charge of the health and safety of a company should be aware of. Making sure you are familiar with and engaged in these organizations ensures that you are up to date on occupational safety and health...

If you’re a safety professional on social media, it would be hard to not notice that your newsfeed blows up this time of year with OSHA’s top ten most-cited violations list.  It’s like clockwork.  And yet, there is one thing that is probably LESS surprising than these articles showing...

Earning the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Certification from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) is an incredible feeling. You have likely studied for hours and put in hard work to prepare for the exam. When you receive the piece of paper that says, “Congratulations! You...

Safety plans should never attempt to be a one-size-fits-all solution.  There are so many different factors that can contribute to a hazardous situation that each needs to be evaluated for the proper means of abatement.    Fall protection on roofs is no different, so let’s look at it in more...

Skylights provide a lot of natural light to the building and are more common than one would think on rooftops. Having protection for skylights is often overlooked because they aren’t initially seen as a fall hazard on the roof.

PNM is a large utility company in the southwest that pursued OSHA compliance for rooftop fall safety in 2020.  

They chose a holistic approach and worked on many safety areas, including roof edge guardrails, metal roof walkways, roof hatchrailing, and skylight protection. This was an...

Skylight protection can be an oversight during bigger rooftop projects, but that is not to say that they are any less important when it comes to the need of fall protection. OSHA categorizes skylights in the same field as hatchways which means that they are a hole in the roof that a person may...

Safety Access Platforms provide the safest and easiest access to work zones that may have previously been inaccessible or at least not accessed safely. A work platform will improve the stability of the surface the working zone and would eliminate the need for any form of ladder or unsafe...

The US Military needed an industrial work platform and they needed it yesterday.

Perhaps you can relate.

The priority of a project can shift at a moment’s notice, and you need the ability to adjust to the needs of your business. That’s why our government needed to find someone who could...

Working on a roof is inherently dangerous work, but the dangers aren’t only present during the work.  Accessing the roof in the first place presents its own set of hazards. 

Ladders are one of the most common methods of access and there is a reason they get their own section of the OSHA...

The edge is not the only danger on your sloped roof.

Every time you send someone on your roof to perform maintenance or an inspection, you expose them to various slips, trips, and falls. Slips, trips, and falls were the second leading cause of workplace fatalities in 2021 and 2020, according...