Safety Posts
Ladder Safety is a Year-round Topic
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS COO. While we promote Ladder Safety awareness each March, we need to not forget about it the rest of the year. Falls from ladders are a leading cause of injury in the United States. The American Ladder Institute (ALI) reports that “work-related ladder falls result in ...
Avoiding Skin Cancer Caused by Sun Exposure
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Tips for roofers to avoid skin cancer and warning signs to look for. Roofers are as likely as anyone on earth to develop skin cancer due to sun exposure. While light sun exposure can help us absorb essential vitamin D, many of the sun’s effects ...
Two Types of Workplace Stress
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Stress can be a great motivator on a job site. Sometimes it is positive stress and sometimes it is negative stress. How employees feel at work affects their performance and ability to work safely. The level of stress they experience on the job significantly ...
Recordable Injuries: Why Employees Should Care
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Why reporting an injury is crucial to the wellbeing of your business and how to avoid recordable injuries by taking action quickly. While some work-related injuries may seem pretty insignificant, all work injuries should be reported, no matter how small. Recording them protects you ...
How do you Rank on This Safety Scorecard?
By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter. Use this quiz to learn how to start, improve and transform your safety program for the better. Safety is obviously a top priority within the roofing industry, but it’s not always easy to know if your safety program has areas where it can ...
Do it the Right Way, Not the Easy Way
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Keep your employees safe by going the extra mile to make sure things are done correctly. Roofing contractors should take care to do business the right way, not the easy way. Doing so will keep your workers safe from injuries on the job. ...
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 ...
