Tag: Safety
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Car Shipping Safety Guide: How to Protect Your Vehicle
Shipping your car might seem a bit uncertain at first, but with the right auto transport company, it’s a safe and simple process. A professional car transport service will prioritize your vehicle’s safety. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to make sure your car stays secure and your experience is hassle-free. We’ll…
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Note These Key Snow Thrower Safety Tips Ahead of Winter Weather
Clearing snow from driveways, sidewalks and parking lots is a major task each winter, and safe operation of snow throwers remains essential. The Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI) is urging homeowners and business owners to prepare equipment early and follow basic safety practices before the next storm. OPEI President and CEO Kris Kiser says unpredictable…
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Hidden Safety: Sneaker-Style Protective Shoes in the UAE
In the Emirates, style has long ceased to be the prerogative of the office or shopping center. Today, even on construction sites or in logistics, you can meet people whose work shoes resemble fashionable sneakers more than the usual heavy boots. The fact is that it is in the UAE that unique requirements are placed…
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Key Safety Features for Family-Friendly Pool Installations
Looking for essential safety features for your family-friendly pool? Hundreds of children visit emergency rooms for pool-related injuries and drowning every year. Most of the time, these accidents occur at the family pool at home. According to the CPSC, 81% of fatal child drownings occur in residential settings. Pool safety needs to be a primary…
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Keeping Workers Safe: Leadership, PPE Trends & Safety Culture with Matt Bruggeman of Ritz Safety
Keeping Workers Safe: Leadership, PPE Trends & Safety Culture with Matt Bruggeman of Ritz Safety-Video Apple Podcast Spotify Podcast In this episode of Commercial Construction Coffee Talk, David Corson, CCR Magazine Publisher/Editor sat down with Matt Bruggeman, President of Ritz Safety, one of the nation’s leading providers of safety solutions and personal protective equipment (PPE).…
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Immersion Cooling Fluids Boost Safety and Efficiency
As demand for data processing continues to climb, data centers are under pressure to increase performance while reducing energy use, maintenance costs, and environmental impact. In response, many operators are exploring alternative cooling technologies, and none have emerged as more promising than immersion cooling. Unlike traditional air-cooled systems or even direct-to-chip liquid cooling, immersion cooling…
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Hinkley JV issued enforcement notice after ‘fire safety shortfalls’
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served a fire enforcement notice after identifying “significant fire safety shortfalls” at the Hinkley Point C nuclear construction site. The notice was served on Bylor – a joint venture of Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics – which is delivering Hinkley Point C’s main civil engineering works. According…
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Quality as the new safety paradigm
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Image: Alfredo Angeles | Dreamstime.com For built environment professionals, safety must be underpinned by quality at every stage of project design and delivery. Over the last few years, our industry has experienced a profound recalibration in how it views safety. From the introduction of the Building Safety Act to the recent appointment of interim chief…
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Samsara Safety Report Shows AI Reduces Construction Fleet Crashes
Samsara has released its Safety Report: Benchmarking the Future of Safety, a global analysis of 2,600 fleets based on anonymized data from approximately 20 trillion data points and billions of miles driven during the first 30 months of platform use. The report highlights that construction fleets face unique risks, with harsh events up 31% and…
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How McLaughlin & Harvey demonstrates competency under the Building Safety Act
Trade bodies Guidance from industry bodies is starting to emerge, such as the Joint Competency Initiative (envelope) and the Association of Specialist Fire Protection, which have developed standards for assessing individual competencies. However, we need a set of standards for every trade and there is some way to go before this is achieved. Professional bodies…