Safety Posts
Harness Adds Features to Ease Compliance With OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Standard
The new features to its safety app come as a welcome relief to contractors who are frustrated by the burden of compliance. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to minimize the risk of COVID-19 transmission in the workplace. The ETS establishes ...
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.” ...
The Head and Heart of Safety
By Karen Cates. Make safety more than a lesson, make it an emotional commitment. Important messages don’t really stick the first time you share them with your workers. Research has demonstrated that new information must be shared at least seven times for it to be fully processed and adopted. One roofing ...
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 ...
