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SafeWork NSW Crackdown On Crane Operator Licensing, Competency & More
SafeWork NSW Inspectors Move To Verify Licensing & Operator Competency On Crane Operators, Riggers & Doggers In a 6 month crackdown on…
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ACT Work Health And Safety Law Changes For Major Construction Projects
Amended ACT Work Health and Safety Tabled On June 7, 2018 With the advent of a new 2018 amendment, the ACT Work…
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Essentials of an Optimized Construction Industry Safety Culture
Building Optimized Safety Culture and Health Management Within The Construction Industry An optimized safety culture helps reduce construction industry accidents. This means reduced…
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OSHA Interpretation For Construction Contractors
Four Major Categories of OSHA Interpretation OSHA standards for safety fall into four primary categories with each grouping based according to specific…
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Is Your Equipment In Compliance?
Equipment Compliance – Historical Safety Reflections Without steadfast standards of agreement, the concept of equipment compliance would have to rely on the…
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Digitizing Workflows for Safety on jobsite
Operations Workflow Management, The Good Old Days In the golden age of digitized workflows, construction Supervisors struggled to make do with spreadsheet…
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Safety Topics for Tool Box Talks in 2018
Toolbox Talks – Supplemental OSHA Health and Safety Training A well-planned approach to health and safety Toolbox Talks can help ensure that…
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Compliance is Critical – how maintaining ISO or OSHA Standards will keep your workers safe
ISO or OSHA Compliance Critical In The Battle To Protect Workers From The Dangers of Exposure To Crystalline Silica OSHA and ISO…
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Safety Compliance Checklist For The Jobsite
Jobsite Safety Compliance – Leading into 2018 With ISO and OSHA Compliant Confidence Confidence in your jobsite 2018 safety compliance programs need…
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Staffing Checks For Construction-Based License Renewal And Trainings
Consequences of Inadequate Training and Failed License Renewal Although requirements differ from region to region, every respectable government issues some measure of…
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Take 5 Safety Checklists Automated Increases Jobsite Safety Awareness
Five Minutes To Enhance Jobsite Safety Awareness – Take 5 Safety Checklists Designed to help eliminate in one ear and out the…
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How Can Drones Change The Way We View Jobsite Safety?
Using Drones To Point Out Potential Construction Jobsite Safety Hazards In this bold new world of construction technology, many contractors have set…
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Following PPE Requirements – What To Do When Employee’s Do Not Comply
Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), Ensuring OSHA Compliance In striving to protect your most valuable construction assets, your workforce, it sometimes seems that…
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Jobsite Injuries, The Aftermath To Employees Who Must Continue To Work
Jobsite Injuries – An Immediate Response to Traumatic Jobsite Events In spite of recent improvements in construction safety training requirements and programs,…
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Major Storm Preparedness – Safety for the Jobsite
Construction Disaster Readiness – Tips On Storm Preparedness For Construction Jobsites Never think that major storm preparedness is isolated to homeowners, insurance…
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Construction Industry Resources – Uses of AR/VR for Safety Purposes
AR/VR for Safety Purposes – Augmented and Virtual Reality Applied To Construction Industry Safety and Training It appears that AR/VR is fast…
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Morning Safety Stretch – Why Stretch And Flex Programs Are Beneficial On The Job Site
Benefits of Stretch and Flex Morning Safety Stretch Programs Even as employee injuries remain a major concern for construction contractors, arguments against…
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How To Manage Lost Time Injuries And Reduce The Frequency Rate
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate – Under Fire As An Incomplete Safety Monitoring Process As a defined lag indicator of contractor performance…
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Risk Assessment Management In Construction – Best Practices
The Practical Aspect of Construction Risk Assessment Management As modern construction operations seek formal control over the health and safety hazards common…
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Top 9 must-have features of construction management software
Whether you are subcontractor that does civil work, infrastructure, labor hire, dry / wet plant hire or commercial work. You want deliver…
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The Real Costs Of Shortcoming Construction Health And Safety Regulations
Construction Health and Safety Regulations – Define The Right Mindset It is no accident that construction firms are called to operate under…
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Everything You Need To Know About Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS)
Safe Work Method Statements: Health and Safety Procedures For High Risk Construction Work Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) defined… In accordance with…
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Fall Protection and Prevention – Construction Site Safety Tips
Jobsite Safety – Tips For Fall Prevention and Fall Protection In the construction industry, fall protection occupies a critical position in the…
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Silica Exposure – New OSHA Requirements For Tracking Silica Exposure
Overview: OSHA On Silica Exposure – New Standards Under the March 25, 2016 final OSHA rule concerning workplace control of airborne silica…
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OSHA Accident Reporting – Distinctions In Forms 300, 300A and 301
OSHA Accident Reporting Overview – Importance of Proper Completion of Accident Reports For OSHA OSHA accident reporting involves detailed documentation of accidental…
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Training Operators The Basics Of Machine Operation, Maintenance and Safety
Six Steps To Better Construction Equipment Operations, Safety and Maintenance The age of computerized emission controls, on-board camera systems, motion position sensors,…
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How Proactive Safety Analysis Improves Jobsite Safety And Efficiency
Task-Focused Jobsite Safety Analysis For Better Company-Wide Jobsite Safety And Efficiency Effective strategies for construction jobsite incident prevention produce greater company-wide efficiency…
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Why Construction Supervision And Safety Programs Matter
Construction Safety Programs – The Cost of Poor Supervision Adequate construction supervision ensures success in ongoing construction activities and tasks. Ignore this…
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Assess Health And Safety – Daily Safety Checks
Safety belongs at the top of every jobsite daily checklist. So how well is the construction industry meeting the challenge? Daily Jobsite…
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Understanding & Fixing Issues of Contractor Employee Health and Safety
It doesn’t matter if your construction company only does small renovation work or erects skyscrapers, the need for a formal, compliant, and effective…
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Opportunities In Construction – Get Better Results From Safety Moments
Defining An Opportune Construction Safety Moment? Safety moments come and go quickly. Don’t miss the opportunity. It typically occurs at the beginning…
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Avoid Workplace Fatigue On Your Construction Projects
Workplace Fatigue, A common Problem For Construction Contractors Poor, bad and below normal construction labor productivity hinders effective construction planning. This means…
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How Technology Improves Efficiency And Safety On The Jobsite
Benefits of Cloud-Based Construction Solutions In spite of a slow start, the construction industry has finally taken a bold leap into Cloud-based…
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Safety, Crafting Of A Shared Safety Vision On The Jobsite
The Importance Of An Established Company-Wide Culture For Job Safety At first glance, the need for a shared safety vision may seem…
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Construction Software Improves Jobsite Safety
Full-Function Construction Software Integrates Jobsite Safety Into Daily Processes Above all, construction safety on the job stands as an individual responsibility. Yet…
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Reducing Risk and Liability of Falls On-The-Job
The construction industry is the second most dangerous industry for workers in the United States, surpassed only by the logging industry. Of…
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How Construction Management Software Improves Job Site Safety
The construction industry in the United States ranks among the top industries for injuries and deaths on the job. All stakeholders agree…
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Construction Operator Safety Guidelines – Keeping Workers Safe
Hazards of Heavy Machinery Demand Comprehensive Construction Operator Safety Guidelines Keeping workers safe is not always easy. Accidents happen, and even the…
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ISO 14001 Implementation In Construction
ISO 14001: You keep hearing about the benefits, and the drive is on. But you can’t quiet get a handle on were…
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Jobsite Safety – How To Enforce Safety Regulations On The Jobsite
Office Safety Regulations – Reducing Accumulated Jobsite Safety Paperwork To best reduce jobsite safety issues, modern construction companies require access to clear…
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ISO 45001 Replaces AS NZS 4801 – Effects Of ISO 45001 Changes
Effects of ISO 45001 Changes For Australian & New Zealand Construction Companies AS / NZS 4801 has been replaced with ISO 45001.…
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Construction Management: Managing Worker Fatigue
The construction industry often puts workers in high-risk activities. To meet the challenges, they face on the job site safely, construction workers…
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Contractors Benefit From OSHAS 18001 Certification
Construction companies that achieve an OSHAS 18001 certification are recognized for meeting industry standards. That status demonstrates the organization has the ability…
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Government Contracts: AS/NZS 4801 Occupational Health and Safety Compliance
Paying the price of unsafe and unhealthy work environments can be devastating. Substandard conditions can lead to work-related illness and injury that…
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Taming the Fatal Four in Construction Accidents Leading to Injury or Death
The construction industry is a leading industry for injuries, illnesses, and death in the United States. The United States Department of Labor,…
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ISO 14001 Certification Requirements for Construction Companies
The 14001 series environmental standards created by the International Organization (ISO) for Standardization are important requirements. They provide a systematic approach to…
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Top Construction Site Accidents…& How to avoid them – Part 2
Construction sites have the highest injury rate of all dangerous work environments. In Part 1 we explored the five most common accidents…
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Top Construction Site Accidents…& How to avoid them – Part 1
Construction sites are prone to accidents, this week we look at how to avoid them… One of the biggest challenges in the…
