Articles Tagged with ''confined space''

“Now is the time to train. When the industry rebounds, those employees will be ready” said Woody Hill, vice president, safety services at Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Lyndolyn Pervier, director of workforce continuing education at Midland College, agreed.

Yesterday, The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and CPWR -- The Center for Construction Research and Training released a collection of construction safety materials known as the Safety Toolbox Talks.

Mallory Safety and Supply - a safety distributor dedicated to helping companies create safer, healthier, and more productive workplaces, and Airstreams Renewables Inc., a leader in career safety and technical training

As a consultant, you find yourself in a vast array of work environments.

Although the compliance deadline for OSHA’s confined spaces in construction rule has been pushed back a second time – to January 8, 2016 – the new year and the new requirements will be upon us in no time.

Moments before a blast ripped through a railcar on April 14, 2015, a check of the air quality inside indicated a serious risk of an explosion. Despite the warning, Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services sent two employees, aged 41 and 45, into the railcar to work without monitoring the air continuously for explosive hazards as required, nor providing the employees with emergency retrieval equipment or properly fitted respirators.