Tens of thousands of employers and more than 1 million workers across the country are joining the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from June 2 - 6 in safety stand-downs to focus on saving ...

Fall protection is a critical aspect of ensuring worker safety. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts to implement rigorous safety protocols and provide high-quality fall protection equipment, ...

Each year, EC&M publishes a gallery that looks at "The Top 10 OSHA Violations." In the latest gallery, Fall Protection — General Requirements was the most frequently cited workplace safety standard ...

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.

Editor's Note: Daniel Huntington delivered a webinar on fall protection that can be accessed for free, on-demand, here. In the realm of occupational safety, few challenges are as widespread and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is encouraging construction industry employers and workers, across the nation, to take part in its 12th ...

The new Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule requiring employers operating in the residential construction industry to use the same methods of fall protection that historically have been ...

One of the fundamental truths about any business operation is the essential role of worker safety. Often overlooked, investment in safety equipment like fall protection systems is not merely a ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ)– The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division (Oregon OSHA) announced Wednesday it has fined a Bend construction company $103,438 for repeatedly violating a requirement to ...

These systems are designed to stop a fall — not to prevent it. Most of the requirements here apply to the equipment itself. The employer needs to ensure that equipment purchased for personal fall ...