Working from heights is inherently dangerous. Effective and feasible fall prevention and fall protection measures are readily available. Falls can be prevented and lives can be saved.
GREEN railcar access platforms, manufactured by Benko Products, Inc., provide safe access to the tops of railcars and can be customized to meet the demands of any size operation.
Safety as an industry is somewhat slow to adopt new technology. Years after the release of a popular smartphone app that streamlines jobsite inspection, it is almost a given that a site safety manager uses the app today. After my initial chuckles about the Apple Watch release, I started to think about wearable tech’s application for safety. Specifically, how could a wearable device, like the Apple Watch, impact worker safety?
J&M Metro General Contracting Corp. failed to provide lifesaving protections
October 9, 2015
Vidal Sanchez fell to his death at a Brooklyn work site on April 1, 2015. It should not have happened. The 51-year-old laborer, who worked for Brooklyn-based J&M Metro General Contracting Corp., fell while raking freshly poured concrete at the unprotected 6th floor edge of a building under construction at 360 Neptune Ave. in Brighton Beach.
A subcontractor and general contractor were cited for safety violations by OSHA after a worker plunged to his death from a four floor apartment complex in in New Braunfels, Texas.
Dynamic Safety, USA is an independent Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) manufacturer that began in 2015 as an expansion of DSI Safety, Inc., a leading manufacturer of PPE in Canada.
Latchways was founded in 1974 and is acknowledged as the first company to successfully develop and market engineered, cable-based, fall-arrest systems.
