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Project Uptime
Project Uptime
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Trench Safety By the Numbers
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How to Maximize the Pre-Job Briefing
What’s the first thing your workers do on the jobsite each day? A pre-job briefing, held before anyone picks up a hammer or begins laying pipe, will prepare them for the tasks...
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What Is a ‘Competent Person’?
Many OSHA standards, such as 1926 subpart P for trenching and excavation, require a competent person to be onsite and perform certain activities. For example, during trench...
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When Is a Trench a Confined Space?
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When Do You Need an Engineer for Your Trench Shoring Design?
Deeper trenches and large surcharges require professional input. Contractors can often develop their own shoring designs for trench excavations. But there are times when they need...
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Trench Safety Tips for Spring and Summer
Wet weather can change what’s safe and what’s not. Spring and summer rains can create additional challenges when it comes to building a trench and maintaining trench safety...
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Taking Trench Safety Seriously
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Buried Alive: Lessons from a Trench Collapse Survivor
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Why and How to Provide Confined Space Training
Manholes, sewers, crawlspaces, shafts, HVAC ducts, escalator pits — these are places that can trigger a bout of claustrophobia in susceptible people sooner than they can say “get...
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Essential Trench Safety Tips
In 2016, 23 construction workers died while working in trenches. Although numerous safety standards, precautions, and preventive measures for working in trenches already exist, the...