Construction Safety Articles

OSHA’s recent guideline explores leading indicators as a safety and health metric, and explains how they can help your organization improve performance and create an action plan for implementation and review.

A new toolkit from NIOSH offers resources for educating first responders on the dangers of illicit drug exposure and the steps they can take to protect themselves.

Risk management is at the heart of what safety professionals do every day. Take these three actions to be smarter about risk.

The revised ANSI/ASSP Z10.0-2019 standard that guides implementation of safety and health management systems is now available after being approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The update establishes Z10 as one of the most comprehensive systems-based standards in the world for occupational safety and health management.

ISO 45001 is a global standard for occupational safety and health management systems. Follow these five steps to begin implementing ISO 45001 at your organization.

OSH professionals can transform their company’s safety program from a compliance-driven cost center into a corporate sustainability initiative with help from ASSP's Safety Standards Toolbox. The Sept. 24-25 event includes four webinars and access to nearly 50 voluntary consensus safety standards.

NIOSH is holding the first annual Respiratory Protection Week, September 3 to 6 to highlight the history of respiratory protection and explore current certification work and science dedicated to improving respiratory protection.

Protecting workers at height is an ongoing challenge. Thom Kramer shares four steps you can take to develop an effective fall protection system.

Dale Lindemer of the ANSI/ASSP A10.8 Subcommittee discusses the safe construction, assembly and disassembly of scaffolding on construction and demolition sites.

A new video from the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation provides a tool to teach workers about the hazards of workplace noise and the effects of overexposure.