Safety Posts
Prepare to Be Safe This Winter
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. OSHA has released winter weather guidelines so you can best prepare to be cold weather ready. With winter weather comes slippery surfaces, strong winds and environmental cold. During this time employers need to pay extra attention to preventing illness, injury or fatalities and work ...
Carbon Monoxide Safety
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Contractors must be cognizant of the carbon monoxide risks that can come with a residential reroofing project The kind of story no roofer wants to hear is like the one about the woman in Oklahoma whose house filled with toxic carbon monoxide following roof ...
Four Entry Points for Hazardous Chemicals
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Construction site employees need to understand the chemicals they may encounter at the worksite and the amount of exposure they might encounter. There are chemicals present at virtually every worksite. Many of those chemicals are hazardous to humans, depending on the exposure. Know the potential ...
How To Protect Your Roofing Crew On The Job
By Equipter. Prevent slips and falls by following these helpful roofing safety tips. Not only is roofing one of the riskiest jobs out there, but the most common injuries come from slips, trips and falls. When a worker on your crew gets injured from a fall, it not only hits ...
Battling Complacency on the Job Site
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Complacency affects more than the individual worker. It affects your organization. Complacency on the job site has consequences. What is complacency? According to dictionary.com, it is a feeling of “quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect or the like.” ...
OSHA Offers Workers’ Rights Cards in Spanish
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Hispanic construction workers are hard to reach with information about worker rights and safety due to a language barrier. Latinos are the fastest-growing population in the construction industry but sometimes do not understand their rights on the job or how to protect themselves against injuries. The ...
Why Toolbox Talks Are Essential
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Keep safety issues at the forefront of workers’ minds and increase awareness of hazards. Safety training should be an ongoing practice at construction sites. However, while formal OSHA instruction is critical for a secure worksite, continuous reminders are also essential. You can communicate those ...
PPE for Roofers
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. There are numerous pieces of equipment roofers use that require proper protection to avoid injury. It’s important to provide the proper safety equipment to employees and make sure they are using it. It is key to a safe workplace. Let’s break down the ...
How Drones Make Jobsites Safer
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Jobsites are becoming much safer these days as project managers, inspectors and surveyors are turning more and more to drone technology. As we all know, construction work can be dangerous and today, we are also dealing with a contagious global pandemic, so the fewer ...
What You Should Know About Fall Protection
Everyone in the construction business is well aware that falls are the number one cause of death in the industry. Of the 1,008 construction deaths in 2018, 338 were the result of falls. Fall protection systems are vital in giving workers the essential safety tools they need and reducing the ...
