For years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has identified fall protection among its top compliance priorities. Falls have been ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) officially kicked off its National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Trenching and Excavation on October 1, 2018. With the NEP comes enhanced ...

This course covers the OSHA Excavation Standard and safety and health aspects of excavation and trenching. Course topics include practical soil mechanics and its relationship to the stability of ...

OSHA has reported a significant drop in workplace fatalities requiring investigation in the past year, attributed to ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration reports an 11% drop in death investigations across all industries for ...

This webinar will feature experts from OSHA, NIOSH ... of construction and safety & health professionals on trench safety practices in the field. Among the findings were: More pre-planning ...

In fiscal year 2024, federal OSHA investigated 826 worker deaths, an 11% reduction from 928 in the previous year. Excluding Covid-related deaths, this is the lowest number of worker fatalities OSHA ...

Trenches and excavations are not automatically considered confined spaces, according to OSHA Trench and Excavation Safety. In every trench or excavation that is 4 or more feet in depth ...

After being asked to finish a job and return to a cite where hours earlier a partial trench collapse happened, two workers ...