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Million Miler Award Staff, 5/25/2009
Four Minnesota truck drivers received the Million Miler Award for Safety Excellence from the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) during its 2009 annual conference in La Quinta, CA. Greg Vorderbruggen, LeFebvre & Sons, Inc., Elk River; and Jon Harrington, Scott Ronken and Robert Flath, Midwest Specialized Transportation, Inc. More
Fatalities Decrease Staff - 05/11/2009
In the past 10 years, work zone fatalities have decreased with the sharpest drop from 2006 to 2007 of 17%, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood during National Work Zone Awareness Week in April. Four out of 5 victims in a work zone accident are motorists, not highway workers as most people believe.
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Gilbane Recognized by OSHA Staff - 04/27/2009
Gilbane Building Company's Massachusetts District Office has recently been selected as a Blue Level participant in the Construction Health and Safety Excellence Partnership (CHASE). This is the highest level of recognition achievable in the partnership. This elite designation partners Gilbane with OSHA and the Associated General Contractors (AGC) to promote safe work practices on all constructi...
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Building A Safety Culture By Mark Troxell, The Graham Company. Edited by Christina Fisher. - 04/20/2009
The most successful companies have safety as a core value by promoting an incident-free work environment, which is a corporate mindset that no incident is acceptable and safety is not optional. Such companies make safety a personal issue rather than a corporate issue, and thus safety becomes a way of life for their employees, both on and off the job.
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Caterpillar Offers Customer Safety Training Online Staff - 04/06/2009
SAFETY.CAT.COM™ has expanded its services to include online safety training for customers. The new safety-training website, Safety.Cat.Com/Training, offers classes about general safety issues common at most job sites. Courses include Aerial Lifts, Environmental Awareness, Fall Protection, OSHA 10-Hour for Construction and General Industry, OSHA 300 Recordkeeping, Hazard Communication, Haz...
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JLG Offers Online Training Staff - 04/06/2009
JLG Industries, Inc. has developed an online Learning Management System to deliver training for JLG customers. To register for JLG's Online Training, contact the JLG Training Department via the JLG Training Request Form. You will receive the Learning Management URL, User ID and Password. The Warranty courses are offered free of charge.
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NCCCO Launches CCO Rigger Certification 03/31/2009
The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has announced the availability of its much ...
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Findorff Wins AGC Of Wisconsin Safety Award Staff - 03/30/2009
J.H. Findorff & Son, Madison, WI, recently received the Safety Excellence Award for 2008 from The Associated General Contractors of Wisconsin. Findorff fulfilled the criteria of having at least 4,000 hours worked with no fatalities and a low rate of lost-time incidents. Findorff Safety Director Sonny Femal joined 16 employees in receiving the award at the AGC of Wisconsin's annual Construct...
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Restoring The Bricks in Roswell An apartment building dating from almost 170 years ago is restored and expanded to create new residential space in an historic Atlanta suburb.
Restoring The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The restoration of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City involved rebuilding the museum's Pier 86 into a state-of-the-art docking facility.
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