A crane collapse in New York City killed two workers as it fell to the ground. This is the 2nd crane collapse in NYC in 2.5 months. City officials have stated that the lax in safety procedures is unacceptable, and would be investigated. You can read more about the story from CBS, [...]

In part one of our series on “Heat Stress” we found out what heat stress is. In part two I would like to go over the causes and the various heat related illnesses, what you need to know and what to look for. It’s a topic most of us don’t really think about, we work [...]

Working on or around railroad tracks can be a hazardous job if you’re not alert and paying attention to your surroundings. Getting hit by a train is almost certain to end your life. Working in railyards or out repairing track is hard work, it can be exhausting, and you can lose focus; these are the [...]

I was watching the news yesterday evening and saw the massive explosion that happened at the new San Diego Hilton Hotel. It happened around 2pm. Luckily it was still under construction, it could have been much worse if those nearly 1200 rooms were full. No one was killed, but 9 construction workers were injured, 3 [...]

As of April 30th, 2008 two new directors have been appointed to key positions with OSHA
Steven Witt was appointed Director of OSHA’s Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs. Witt has served and held several key positions with OSHA and the Department of Labor since 1972, most notably as the Director of the Directorate of [...]

I remember as a kid my father going to night school to become an electrician. He was already doing the job where he worked, he worked for a large television manufacturing plant. He worked in what he called the powerhouse, it was where all the transformers and generators for supplying electric to the plant were [...]

Steel building materials come in a wide variety of forms that include flat plate, coil, round and squared bars, beams, pipes, and many other shapes. Each type of steel you work with requires its own unique method of handling, storage, and transporting. There are numerous specialized fittings, attachments, and implements used to handle steel, [...]

When the body is unable to cool itself by sweating, several heat-induced illnesses such as heat stress or heat exhaustion and the more severe heat stroke can occur, and can result in death.
Young people in general good health who are physically fit and have been exercising regularly in the heat, for at least the previous [...]

As the summer season approaches, those of you in the air-conditioning industry will be very busy, so I thought that I would do an article on “Legionnaires Disease”. It’s a very real hazard and potentially fatal if the proper precautions are not used. I know it’s not something that comes to mind as you go [...]

If you live in the country like I do, you see people working in fields day and night, from the farmer next door to the huge corporate-run farms with hundreds of people working on them. Farming has been the life blood of this country since the beginning. Working the soil, planting, watering, and waiting for [...]