Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the 21st century. But you wouldn’t know if you looked at the violations the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues. In ...

OSHA sets the baseline for fall protection—but is that really enough? As fall-related fatalities continue to rise, safety leaders must rethink their approach, with or without regulatory oversight.

Fall Protection continues to top OSHA’s list of the top 10 most frequently cited workplace standards, coming in at number one in 2023 for the 13th year in a row. OSHA 1926.501 addresses Fall ...

Providing worker safety on the job site can be a difficult task, due to the constant changes and activity occurring on the average job site. However, the importance of protecting construction workers ...

Use these areas of a fall protection safety program to make intelligent decisions about fall protection based on risk analysis and not guesswork. This summer, OSHA launched a week-long campaign called ...

It has been said that you don’t know what you don’t know. My goal with this article is to show you something you “didn’t know you didn’t know” about fall protection for firefighters. Before you turn ...

From an inquiry, the Concrete Foundations Association discovered a gap that exists between experience with fall protection and interpretation of the current regulation. Question: Yesterday, an OSHA ...

Upper Great Plains lineman Shayne Bender demonstrates how to use a buck hook with a self-retracting lanyard to ascend a steel lattice tower at fall protection training in Mead substation. When the ...