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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GZA Receives IAAP Safety Award
GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. (GZA), a multi-disciplinary firm providing geotechnical, environmental, ecological, water, and construction management services, 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. The IAAP Safety Committee established the award program…
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Only When Employees Feel Supported Will They Step Up and Say or Do Something if They Observe an Unsafe Situation or Behavior. By Joe McGuire, Emily Haas and Scott Bohm
Read MoreImproving Safety Through Paperwork: MSHA’s Workplace Examination Rule
MSHA Is Happy To Saddle The Industry With $276 Million In Additional Costs Over The Next Decade Or So For A Rule That May Not Be Beneficial. By Brian Hendrix
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By Joseph P. McGuire and Bill Snead A majority of companies in the aggregates industry have a genuine concern about the safety of their employees. In their efforts to ensure employee accidents and injuries are kept to a minimum, safety professionals continually look for that one program, new initiative or “silver bullet” to eliminate unwanted events on company sites or…
Read MoreDustless Loading Spout Addresses Safety, Environmental Concerns
By Kevin R. Peterson Transloading, the process of utilizing different shipping methods to transport and deliver material, makes incredible sense in the sand industry. In the case of sand suppliers, transloading offers distinct advantages.
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As the weather warms up, safety needs to be first and foremost on the minds of aggregates producers. There are a million things we would probably rather be thinking about or doing, but it is critically important to focus the mind on the task at hand.
Read MoreSecuraTrac Offers Location Technologies for Safety
SecuraTrac announced its next generation mPERS mobile emergency pendant, the MobileDefender Model S (MD-S). It is developed on the same platform as the powerful MobileDefender and introduces new capabilities that will help to ensure the safety of those who use it and the SecuraTrac platform.
Read MoreIs ‘Good Enough’ Really Enough?
It was a hot and humid spring day and the three-man crew had just changed out the gear case on the secondary crusher in record time. Best of all, no one got hurt – not even a busted knuckle. The lead mechanic, Dave, had directed the entire operation and was anxious to test-run the crusher.
Read MoreAggregates Operations Honored for Safety, Environment, Community
The National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) is recognizing outstanding aggregates operations in the United States and Canada for an extraordinary commitment to safety, superior environmental stewardship and community involvement in 2015.
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