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Are You Guilty of Any of the Following? OSHA recently released a list of the most frequent construction violations they cited between October 2010 and September 2011. For the first time in many years, fall protection has taken the lead as the most frequently cited standard, replacing scaffolding. But scaffolding comes in a close second. [...]
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“Bad Air” Leads to Big Problems. There are many reasons why workers must enter confined spaces — to make a tie-in, install new equipment, make an inspection or repair, clean the space, etc. And because, by their very nature, such spaces are “confined,” you must take extreme care to ensure that the atmosphere inside is [...]
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Editor’s Note: When we started this series on confined space safety, we had three parts for the article in mind. However, while we were in the middle of publishing the series, we received OSHA’s “Region IV e-News” newsletter, which summarized an unfortunate accident that illustrates the very points we were making in the three part series. [...]
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