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August 26, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
By working together, employers and employees can create a culture of safety that ensures everyone returns home safely at the end of the day.
Workplace safety rules are put in place to protect employees from potential hazards and risks. However, despite these rules being implemented, employees may not ...
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August 11, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Building a culture that protects crews and companies.
Roofing has never been more demanding or more scrutinized when it comes to safety. Between tighter deadlines, labor shortages and increasing OSHA enforcement, safety programs that once relied on routine box-checking no longer cut it. The best contractors have ...
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August 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Mental health and suicide prevention in roofing.
Most safety conversations in roofing focus on what you can see: fall hazards, equipment, weather and materials. But some of the most serious risks on a jobsite aren’t visible at all.
Mental health struggles don’t announce themselves with alarms or warning ...
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August 10, 2026 at 3:00 a.m.
Por Cotney Consulting Group, traducido por Alberto Torres
Cómo las temperaturas extremas aumentan silenciosamente el riesgo en los trabajos de techado
El calor extremo normalmente no provoca el primer error en un trabajo de techado. Provoca el segundo.
El paso que se omitió.
El movimiento apresurado.
La decisión que en ese ...
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July 31, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
How extreme temperatures increase jobsite risk.
Extreme heat doesn’t usually cause the first mistake on a job. It causes the second one.
The missed step.
The rushed movement.
The decision felt fine at the moment, but it wasn’t.
Crews understand heat. They work through it every ...
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July 29, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Managing stress during high-traffic roofing seasons.
Every roofing company has a season when everything feels urgent. Phones ring nonstop. Backlogs grow. Crews are stretched thin. Weather windows close fast. Customers want answers yesterday. Busy seasons are good for business, but they’re also when safety risk quietly increases. ...
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July 22, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Why roofing crews are getting flagged, and how you can avoid it.
Many roofing contractors are surprised when an OSHA inspector brings up silica exposure. After all, most roofers don’t think of themselves as “silica trades.” They’re not mining, blasting or pouring concrete, silica citations are appearing ...
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July 21, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Wildfire smoke has become an operational concern that many Canadian roofing contractors can no longer treat as an uncommon event.
By mid-July 2026, hundreds of active wildfires were burning across Canada, with elevated fire danger affecting several northern and central regions. Smoke from those fires ...
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July 20, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By Cotney Consulting Group.
Turning compliance into culture on roofing jobsites.
Safety isn’t just a program, a manual or a meeting. It’s what happens when leadership, training and accountability come together on a jobsite day after day, without exception. Yet, too often in roofing, safety culture gets reduced to slogans and paperwork. ...
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July 6, 2026 at 6:00 a.m.
By John Kenney, Cotney Consulting Group.
Tips for staying alert in building maintenance.
There’s a unique mindset that comes with building maintenance work. Unlike construction crews who move from project to project, maintenance technicians return to the same properties day after day. They know the buildings, understand the systems and learn the ...
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