Items Tagged with 'Construction site safety'

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12 steps --- July 2013

12 steps to strengthen construction site safety

In a white paper, "Building a Proactive Safety Culture in the Construction Industry" by the Philadelpia-based ACE Group, George Cesarini, Geoffrey Hall and Matthew Kupiec of ACE's Construction unit discuss the need for construction companies to build a culture of safety that is ingrained at all levels, beginning at the top.
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Watch your step

Work-related falls can result in severe injuries and death. According to the National Safety Council, falls to a lower level were the second leading cause of workplace fatalities in 2009, behind highway crashes.
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Designing safety

Prevention through Design is gaining traction, but widespread implementation may still be years away
NIOSH and other safety experts tout the benefits of Prevention through Design, a method used to integrate safety into every aspect of a process, product or facility during the design stage. So why hasn’t it become a common practice?
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Piling on safety

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health provides regulations to protect the safety of workers engaged in pile driving.
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