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Integrating Load Sensors into Scaffolding for Improving Safety

May 14, 2019July 8, 2019Guest Contributor

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), over 2 million workers work on scaffolds. However, despite regulatory practices set by OSHA that ensure […]

ANSI/ISEA 138-2019: American National Standard Performance Classification Impact-Resistant Gloves

ANSI/ISEA 138-2019: American National Standard For Performance And Classification For Impact-Resistant Gloves

March 19, 2019July 8, 2019Erin Stepka

Why Wear Impact-Resistant Gloves? According to The Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, the second most common body part injured at work is the hand. The […]

ANSI/ISEA 121-2018: American National Standard For Dropped Object Prevention Solutions

New American National Standard for Dropped Object Prevention Solutions

March 7, 2019July 8, 2019Brad Kelechava

Construction sites mark transition, where one location or piece of a city is on-way to becoming something new. Since these locations exist in their unfinished […]

ANSI/ASSP A10.28-2018: Safety Requirements for Work Platforms Suspended from Cranes or Derricks

November 9, 2018July 26, 2019Matthew Fowler

Personnel on work platforms can reach incredible heights when doing a job. The aerial view of these scenes, as the worker helps to build or […]

Crane Safety by OSHA Standards: Common Hazards and Control Measures

October 30, 2018July 8, 2019Guest Contributor

Wind gusts can be extremely hazardous to workers due to their unpredictable nature. When high winds occur, structures under construction are in particular danger of […]

ASME B30.5-2018: Mobile and Locomotive Cranes

October 25, 2018July 8, 2019Brad Kelechava

If you examine many devices actively utilized in construction operations, you will see, while perfected with centuries of innovation and a comprehension of modern physics, […]

ASME B30.20 2018 Below the Hook Lifting Devices

ASME B30.20-18: Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices, Changes

October 12, 2018August 23, 2019Brad Kelechava

A volume of the overall safety standard for cableways, cranes, derricks, hoists, hooks, jacks, and slings, ASME B30.20-2018: Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices, has been released. Revising […]