Construction Safety Articles

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.

A proposed consensus standard will establish minimum requirements for the prevention of heat illnesses and management of heat stress hazards and exposures encountered during construction and demolition.

In its comments in response to an OSHA request for information, ASSP submitted a technical comments supporting the reopening of the agency's lockout/tagout regulation.

Digger derricks present unique hazards. Keep these three things in mind as you assess and manage risks to improve digger derrick safety.

Thom Kramer of the ANSI/ASSP Z359 Committee discusses the Fall Protection Code and how you can use it to develop a comprehensive fall protection program and keep workers safe while operating at height.