Roofing Safety

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Keeping with Roofing Contractor’s long tradition, our editors compared notes and assembled the following collection of products worth singling out with our annual Editor’s Choice awards.

Each year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) releases its list of top violations as a reminder of the risks workers face every day.

In roofing, “free climbing” operations essentially indicate the employer’s lack of any concern for worker safety.

If your company is submitting dozens of quotes every week, you should consider adding a wide variety of permanent rooftop safety solutions as options to your quote.

OSHA is expected to increase fines and make it harder than ever for employers to police safety violations.

. While our attention is seldom far from safety, this month’s issue of Roofing Contractor highlights safety, so I want to get things started with a few words on the topic.

A group of national trade associations file federal lawsuit over new silica regulations.

For a roofing project to be truly sustainable, the health, safety and success of the workers who install the roof must be considered.

Today, it’s more critical than ever to ensure your safety program is current and that employees are properly trained to take on all safety challenges on projects of any size.

Under Federal law, all individuals are presumed legally competent until a judicial hearing determines otherwise. Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), however, the competency criteria of a designated employee must first be evaluated by his/her employer.