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Atlas Copco UD+ Compressed Air Filters

Atlas Copco Power Technique

Two-in-one filters designed to reduce pressure drops by 40%

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10 Tips to Cool Summer’s Hot-Tempered Construction Workers

Tips on how construction leaders can approach hot-tempered employees and help them cool down, especially as the outside temperatures heat up

Heat exhaustion, impatience and hot tempers can happen to even the best of your workers. Don’t push them to the point where tempers might flare, exhaustion might set in and you are risking good results.

American Concrete Institute Releases 2015 Edition of the Manual of Concrete Practice

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

Containing more than 240 documents, the Manual of Concrete Practice is the most comprehensive and largest single source of concrete practice information available in one set.

FREE Download: Use and Re-use of Formwork: Safety Risks and Reliability Assessment

Researchers from Oregon State University, mapped the life cycle of vertical concrete formwork on three construction sites, and identified and evaluated the typical site environmental and operations impacts on formwork during its use and re-use.

Concrete Foundations Association Opens Registration for CFA Convention

Concrete Foundations Association (CFA)

The Concrete Foundations Association has opened registration for CFA Convention 2015, the largest annual gathering dedicated to the cast-in-place concrete contractor, July 23-25, 2015 in Williamsburg, Va.

Report: NY Construction Sites Poorly Regulated, OSHA Shares Blame

New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health study says OSHA does not have enough inspectors to monitor all NYC worksites and average penalties for violations and accidents is far too little

In New York, construction work accounts for less than 4% of employment but 20% of the state's occupational fatalities.

Wage Theft Big Problem in Massachusetts Construction Industry

In the past 18 months, the state attorney general's office has issued 253 wage violation citations resulting in more than $1.6M being recovered in penalties and unpaid wages

Safway Group Offers Free Scaffold Safety Training

Safway Group Holding LLC

Limited time, no-cost offer available through May 31st

Buyers Products LED Strobe & Strip Lights

Buyers Products Co.

Buyers' Products adds LED strobe lights, marker/strobe lights and 5-function strip lights to LED truck and trailer lighting options

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Report: Young Hispanic Immigrant Construction Workers Face Greatest Safety Challenges

Construction firms with fewer than 20 employees historically are most likely to hire young, uneducated immigrants and are unlikely to employ occupational safety systems that might prevent on-the-job injuries and deaths

Young, Hispanic workers hired by small construction companies are at the highest risk of safety and health-related challenges in the United States, according to a joint ASSE and NIOSH report.

OSHA Rule to Protect Workers from Beryllium Exposure Plagued by Delays

Current beryllium exposure limits sit at 2.0 micrograms per cubic meter but could be reduced to 0.5 or even 0.1 micrograms per cubic meter

Texas Supreme Court Overturns Jury Verdict on Genie Lift Death

A 6-3 ruling said the Genie AWP-40S aerial lift in not unreasonably dangerous after a man was killed when two workers tried to move the lift while it was 40 feet in the air

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