Every winter, no matter what the industry is or how the work conditions are, slips, trips and falls consistently remains the top cause of workplace injuries and accidents. These are injuries and ...

What comes to mind when you think of fall protection? Is it a harness, keeping a construction worker connected to a building? Or is it a device that alerts an emergency if a worker has fallen and is ...

Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the 21st century. But you wouldn’t know if you looked at the violations the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues. In ...

Protecting employees from falls is a major concern for responsible employers in all types of work settings. From general industry to construction, falls account for a large number of injuries and ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala. -- Fall protection can be defined as a system or means to prevent or reduce the severity of injuries from a fall. Often, when we think of fall protection, we think of someone ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email Stating a “safety first” philosophy is easy enough for organizations, but it takes deeds to save lives, not just ...

Upper Great Plains lineman Shayne Bender demonstrates how to use a buck hook with a self-retracting lanyard to ascend a steel lattice tower at fall protection training in Mead substation. When the ...