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White Paper: Reaching Higher - Recommendations for the Safe Use of Mast Climbing Work Platforms

Paper presenting the recommendations on the safe use of mast climbing work platforms, also known as mast climbers, based on input from a work group of...

Workers Survive Scaffold Failure

By strictly enforcing OSHA's fall protection standard, a Texas company saves two worker's lives and demonstrates the value of workplace safety and hea...

OSHA Guide: Fall Protection in Construction

This guide explains OSHA requirements for fall protection in construction. It links to relevant regulations as well as to other resources....

Drilling Overhead: Ways to Make a Tough Job Easier

CalOSHA brochure detailing how to prevent injuries associated with overhead drilling....

Why Are So Many Construction Workers Being Electrocuted?

Information on the number of deaths from electrocution for both electricians and non-electricians, the causes of the deaths, and preventative measures...

Safety Alert: Use skid-steer loader lift arm supports during maintenance that requires lift arms to be raised

This alert is part of the Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program. Since 2009, four workers in the state have been kil...

Oregon FACE Toolbox Talk: Roofing Materials

This OR-FACE toolbox talk centers on a construction worker who died after a stack of 30 sheets of plywood crushed him. The victim was standing 4 to 5...

Job-Built Ladders

Provides specifications for crafting a job-built ladder....

Oregon FACE Toolbox Talk: Load of Lumber Shifts

This toolbox talk centers on a 32-year-old framer who died when a load of lumber fell on him. The 3 key prevention tips: Never exceed the load or ex...

Ergonomic Hazards and WMSDs: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography

This document is part of a series of annotated, interdisciplinary bibliographies of academic research on major topics in construction occupational saf...