OSHA is ready to sock a Boston-area framing contractor with $300,000 in fines, alleging a willful violation of fall protection rules.
Hanley Wood LLC, the premier media, event, information and strategic marketing services company serving the construction industry and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced today a strategic partnership whereby Hanley Wood has acquired the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo.
Unrelated incidents involving collapsed excavations have critically injured one construction worker in Lincoln, Nebraska, and killed a worker in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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A revised version of Subpart M could increase the maximum height at which workers can forego fall protection
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The delay gives roofers another shot at getting the agency to reconsider its personal fall-arrest requirements.
Falls are still the leading cause of death on construction sites
Online materials and DVDs can help construction contractors meet their obligation to prevent the industry's leading cause of injury and deaths on jobsites.
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Texas lawsuit faults co-worker for failing to provide a safe workplace, inadequate supervision.
Bill Gates hosted the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Seattle where 8 prototypes of a hygienic, waterless, energy-producing toilets of the future were showcased.
The key to the HitchClip Fall Arrest System is a 4.4-ounce anchoring clip that attaches to the roof framing with just four 16d (or equivalent) fasteners.
A partnership between Prevent Blindness America and the Uvex brand empowers workers to promote eye safety.
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Regulators consider new table-saw safety standard; repair guidelines for tainted drywall updated; New Jersey framer fined for fall-protection violations; more
New code requirement for tornado safe rooms; OSHA postpones alternative fall-protection prohibition; Chinese drywall supplier settles with homeowners
Ever since the EPA's Repair, Remodeling, and Painting (RRP) rule took effect in April 2010, remodelers around the country have been waiting expectantly for the agency to begin enforcement action against violators of its strict work-safety and record-keeping requirements.
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Sprinkler foes buoyed by Pennsylvania victory; federal court rejects challenge to revised OSHA fall-protection rules; more
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