Chip Macdonald

The whole process was technologically sound, deceptively simple and obviously profitable.

Whenever the employees’ fall protection is ignored, the employer should be prepared to either rescue a fall victim or retrieve a body.

Though most molds and fungi are benign, slightly irritating or even beneficial, some are very toxic to humans

This article is a review of four innovative anchor point devices. They are all designed for different purposes on different roof styles, job conditions and materials.

For roofing contractors, the final component of the PFAS is an adequately designed and effectively selected roof anchor point, capable of resisting all applied gross-impact forces.

No construction employee should expect that a fatal fall for one out of 1,000 workers is “inevitable.”

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently amended and revised Subpart R: Steel Erection standard.

Late in the afternoon, a UPS van pulls up to your office and a number of large cardboard boxes are unloaded. In a matter of minutes, there are hundreds, or more likely, thousands of dollars of equipment stacked in your waiting room, shipped directly from the Never Fear Safety Co. The answer to all of your safety problems has arrived!

Deputize all of your workers, utilize all of their skills, encourage their input and before you know it, you’re miles down the road to saving lives and losses to those who matter most – your workers.

Effective January 1, 2002, OSHA’s revised Part 1904 “Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses” standard will replace the former record-keeping obligations of the employer.