ANSI/ASSP Z359.14-2021: Self-Retracting Devices Safety Requirements
Year after year, fall protection tops OSHA’s top 10 most frequently cited violations. This threat is more than a workplace blunder, however, as falls comprise […]
Fall Protection
ASME BTH-1-2020: Design of Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices
The ASME BTH-1 standard for the design of below-the-hook lifting devices has been revised. The new edition, released as ASME BTH-1-2020 Design of Below-the-Hook Lifting […]
ASTM F1637-21: Standard Practice For Safe Walking Surfaces
Trips and falls can happen anywhere. In 2019, there were 244,000 workplace injuries from falls, slips, and trips, according to the National Safety Council. Uneven […]
ANSI/ASSP Z359.11-2021: Full Body Harnesses Safety Requirements
Over one century ago, a group of workers fought epochs of erosion with 44-pound jackhammers and dynamite. Their job: to free loose rock from the […]
ANSI/ASSP Z359.1-2020: The Fall Protection Code
ANSI/ASSP Z359.1-2020 – The Fall Protection Code has been released. This standard specifies minimum guidelines for the processes, systems, and components used in a managed […]
NFSI B101.1-2020: Measuring the Wet SCOF of Walkways
The bipedal gait cycle (i.e. the way you walk), begins with heel strike. The spring ligament of the foot releases its tension during toe-off, which leads to the swing […]
New American National Standard for Dropped Object Prevention Solutions
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 […]
ASME B30.5-2018: Mobile and Locomotive Cranes
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 B30.20-18: Below-the-Hook Lifting Devices, Changes
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 […]
ASME HST-3-2017: Performance Standard for Lever Hoists
Lever hoists are designed so that an operator can exert a force, via a lever pull, to lift or pull a rated load and apply […]