Safety Articles

Can you list all the workplace safety hazards you and your team come in contact with on a daily basis? Chances are...

When your equipment is damaged, repairing or replacing it is only part of the cost. Factor in production or service interruptions, downtime for...

In a chaotic work zone, missed warnings are accidents waiting to happen. What if you hear a shout, but don’t understand what...

John Remstedt, co-owner of Grease Masters in St. Charles, Missouri, takes us along on a project cleaning out a city sewer main, located near...

An Oregon woman survived up to three days trapped inside a septic tank after falling into it during maintenance work, according to...

A 3-year-old boy is dead after falling into a grease trap outside a Tim Hortons restaurant in Rochester, New York, according to...

The accolades are many for Jeremy Johnston: Multiple safety awards. A top performer with perfect attendance. And now runner-up for the Portable...

Struck-by, struck-against and back-over incidents are far too common:421 Hudson St., Manhattan, New York, April 21, 2016: Construction worker killed by scaffolding...

It’s time to ditch the foam earplugs. First there was a cotton ball and petroleum jelly. Then came foam earplugs. They’ve reached...

“Don’t know what you got until it’s gone.” What do Cinderella and Passenger have to do with full-duplex communication? Both bands topped the charts singing about taking...

The ability to hear is a truly amazing feat of nature and it’s astounding what the human ear can do. In fact,...

Rochester Asphalt and Concrete’s Royal Johnson shares a story about an on-the-job incident where Sonetics wireless headsets wireless headsets played a key safety role.

Entry 288482Everyone in the industry has heard at least one horror story about someone getting fired or demoted for reporting a safety...

Many view training as an unproductive but necessary evil. Not true. The Construction Industry Institute found that productivity increases by 11 percent for every...