Autodesk Construction Solutions is funding a grant program with the Associated General Contractors of America to provide contractors with safety harnesses specifically sized for women.
OSHA has cited Proctor Enterprises Inc. — based in Stanley, N.Y., and doing business as Proctor Roofing and Contracting — for exposing employees to falls, slapping the company with $116,686 in penalties.
OSHA and the New York Department of Labor are investigating the death of a 33-year-old worker after he fell from a roof while not wearing a harness or safety equipment.
Roofing contractors must carefully consider how to use a harness and tool belt together in order to exhibit a good-faith effort to eliminate or mitigate infeasibility and greater fall hazards.
Two Florida-based roofing contractors face a total of $83,348 in penalties for exposing employees to fall hazards and stuck-by hazards at a work site in Greenacres, Fla.