The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) announced a winner in naming the seat belt safety campaign, to be titled “Why risk it? Just click it!” The campaign’s focus is to remind the aggregate industry’s workforce of the importance of wearing seat belts on the job.
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The Industry’s Health and Safety Requirements Are Evolving and New Tools Are Needed. By Emily J. Haas and Joseph McGuire
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Reaching a Higher Level of Involvement in an Effort to Attain New Levels of Safety on the Job. By Joseph McGuire, Emily Haas and Chad Ferguson
Read MoreDaylight Saving Time begins every year on the second Sunday in March, which in 2019 was March 10. We “lose” an hour when the clocks are set forward (except in Hawaii and most of Arizona), and for many that means a tired couple of days as our bodies adjust, said the National Safety Council (NSC).
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has completed a major upgrade to its primary data system – the Mine Data Retrieval System (MDRS) – bringing increased functionality and more intuitive navigation to this widely used feature.
Read MoreDrug overdoses in the workplace can be better understood via a study recently published by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), particularly as drug-overdose fatalities increase across the country. The study, published online in the journal Injury Prevention, describes drug overdose deaths of workers occurring in U.S. workplaces between 2011-2016.
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Pfannenberg offers the durable PA 1 PATROL Series Sounder, ideal for audible alarm applications on cranes, in mines, mills and factories, and in other heavy industry.
Read MoreGZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. (GZA), a multi-disciplinary firm providing geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water and construction management services, announced that it has received the Rock Solid Excellence in Safety award from the Illinois Association of Aggregate Producers (IAAP) for the 13th year in a row. GZA remains the only engineering/environmental consultant to repeatedly earn that recognition from the IAAP.
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced the availability of up to $400,000 in funding through its Brookwood-Sago grant program to support education and training to help identify, avoid and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.
Read MoreThe Shelly Co.’s Southern Division earned the CRH Americas Materials World Class Safety Award for 2018.
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