Job site safety is an ever-present issue that is a constant threat in any environment and any walk of life.

While it seems easy enough to put a person, in the construction industry, over six feet off the ground (excluding iron work) in a harness, do you really understand fall prevention? Are you aware of other contributing factors that can cause an employee to fall? Do you have a fall protection plan in place?

Falls happen fast. One step could cause a fall leading to injury or fatality. Good news: Falls can easily be prevented and National Safety Stand-Down provides the opportunity to discuss how.

A Florida framing contractor was cited for exposing employees to unsafe working conditions by permitting work without the use of fall protection.

Your workers could be forgetting training a week later. That’s right, up to 90 percent of job site training is forgotten within a week.

Scaffolding is a common task in construction, and it is a dangerous task if done improperly.

The “corridor of death” refers to the dangerous, often narrow passageway where stairs lead to another room opening.