Articles Tagged with ''Fall Protection''

Need to make sense of OSHA’s rules and regs for proper fall protection? Watch this new MSA video for a practical explanation of personal fall arrest systems.

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Rain came down in buckets one evening this summer, a torrential storm.

“One of the greatest challenges in occupational safety and health is ensuring that promising research findings become safer practices on the jobsite,” according to Pete Stafford, Executive Director of the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR).

MSA Safety Incorporated, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based global safety equipment manufacturer, will acquire United Kingdom-based Latchways plc, a provider of fall protection systems and solutions, for $16.85 per share, the companies announced today.

During 2003-2008, 648 oil and gas extraction workers were killed on the job (onshore and offshore, combined), resulting in an annual fatality rate of 29.1 deaths per 100,000 workers, over seven times the rate for all US workers.

Falls, slips and trips account for 15 percent of all accidental deaths per year, second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Turn on ESPN anytime and the chances are good you’ll soon be reminded that one wrong move can change an athlete’s career in seconds.

In the latest construction fatality in New York City, a worker fell 30 feet to his death last week after a platform in an elevator shaft collapsed.

An Alabama contractor was sentenced to three years of supervised probation and 30 hours of community service after pleading guilty to lying to OSHA about an accident at one of his work sites.