Ladder Safety Mistakes Georgia Contractors Must Stop Making on the Job Site
Ladders— including step ladders, extension ladders and attached climbing ladders—are an essential tool in most organizations. For such a simple staple, ladders have a deadly reputation, with more than 20,000 ladder-related, on-the-job injuries and 150 worker fatalities in 2015. EMC Senior Risk Improvement Representative Case Doorn lays the blame on common mistakes that many ladder-climbers […]
Top 10 Safety Tips
Given the recent tragedy involving a fatality during a construction accident, we wanted to offer a refresher on top safety tips. It is always our desire to offer value and insight that matters and to encourage those in the fields we service to be prepared and informed. For these safety tips, we focused on OSHA’s […]
Brake Safety
DID YOU KNOW… An unannounced brake inspection event in April placed nearly 1,600 commercial vehicles out of service for brake violations. Over 11,500 roadside inspections were conducted across 52 jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada during the April 25, 2018, event conducted by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). Last year, the one-day inspection event, […]
Trench Safety Stand Down, June 18-23, 2018
Trench Safety Stand Down, June 18-23, 2018 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and GUCA are partnering to sponsor a week-long campaign, June 18-23, 2018 to reinforce the importance of trench safety. During the Stand Down, employers across Georgia are encouraged to voluntarily stop work for one hour to review […]