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Starting a Sound & Straightforward Safety Program

Construction Business Owner

With a well-documented safety plan, you can reduce costs and the risk of injury, sickness, equipment damage and other worksite issues. . With your day-to-day demands, it can be difficult to find time to review or enhance your business’s safety program.

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National Safety Month 2024: Top Tips for Risk Management

Safety Services Company

Recent statistics reveal a sobering reality: one in five construction workers experiences a fatal injury annually. Furthermore, the construction industry has the highest reported rates of avoidable injuries and fatalities. National Safety Month provides a timely opportunity to delve into effective safety and risk management strategies.

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Construction Risk Management: What to do when your project goes wrong

Lets Build

There is a number of parameters that you should think about and an efficient management of the risk is surely necessary. In other words, you can’t really define risk on the exact same way in every construction project. Even within the same project, there may be distinct sources of risk. Types of risk in construction.

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New OSHA 300 Log Requirements in 2025 | What You Need to Know

Safety Services Company

If you’re a contractor or safety professional, these changes are more than just another to-do on your compliance listthey bring important updates for recording and submitting workplace injuries and illnesses. Not an option (unless you want to risk penalties, and who wants to do that?). What Info Should Be on Your OSHA 300 Log?

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What to Do When LOTO is Not Feasible

FDR Safety

It matters not that your procedure meets the test for acceptable risk and that power is essential. If you ignore set-up, cleaning, adjusting, or other service and maintenance jobs that require power believing that workers are magically complying with LOTO, you are waiting for a potentially serious injury to occur with resulting OSHA citation.

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Feasibility For Machine Guarding Is A Big Deal For Employers and Employees

FDR Safety

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. There is no such thing as being absolutely safe, or in other words, a complete absence of risk. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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FDR Safety

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. There is no such thing as being absolutely safe, or in other words, a complete absence of risk. All machinery contains hazards, and some level of residual risk.

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