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BidGuru App Streamlines Bid Development

Bidding jobs on the go made easier with free mobile app.

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IPAF Supports OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down for Fall Prevention

International Powered Access Federation (IPAF)

OSHA is promoting a National Safety Stand-Down during the week of June 2-6, 2014, in an effort to raise awareness among employers and workers in the construction industry about the hazards of falls.

Steel Erectors to Build Network of Ironworker Training and Testing Centers

Program makes training more accessible and helps to fill the labor pool with more qualified Ironworkers

LPR Construction, a SEAA member training and testing center, recently began training 28 new employees. On the first day of training the future Ironworkers learned to install Beamsafe, use personal protection equipment, walk steel, and connect and bolt.

NIOSH Evaluates Smartphone Sound Measurement Apps

After testing, NIOSH only approved four iOS smartphone sound measurement apps as meeting NIOSH standards

Failure to Provide Fall Protection Resulted in Construction Worker's Death

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

OsHA concluded that if general construction contractor MTL Design Inc. would have provided and ensured the use of fall protection safeguards a 23-year-old worker's death could have been prevented

Video: The Walsh Group Celebrates Safety Week

The Walsh Group is a co-sponsor of Safety Week 2014. Here, Dan Walsh Jr. shares the company's goals for safety on its jobsites.

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Video: Cat B15 Smart Phone Tested By High Dive, Tractor Tread

Caterpillar doesn't want to worry about dropping the Cat B15 smart phone, and the latest Built For It Trial video -- "Gravity" -- is designed to see if the construction-equipment maker's phone is as tough as its earthmovers. "Gravity" opens with a Cat MH3049 Material Handler dropping a B15 phone into a pool of water from 35 feet. Then, a Cat 277D Multi Terrain Loader crawls over a pavement made of 600 B15 phones. Watch the video to see how the phones fared.

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Connecticut Contractor Cited for 14 Crushing, Fall Hazards

Occupational Safety & Health Administration

Cesar Mendoza, d.b.a. KI Management LLC facing $196,000 in fines due to failure to brace walls during demolition and rehab of building

Louisiana Launches Buckle Up in Your Truck Campaign

Campaign designed to encourage seat belt usage and reduce unrestrained fatalities among our pick-up truck drivers and passengers

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Contractors Create First US Construction Safety Week

May 4 through May 10, 2014 is the first U.S. Construction Industry Safety Week

One goal of Safety Week 2014 is to inspire all companies to share best practices and to work together to strengthen the industry’s safety culture.

Caltrans Memorial Honors 183 Fallen Highway Workers

Capital Safety Acquires Brazilian Fall Protection Supplier

3M Fall Protection Business (formerly Capital Safety)

Altiseg acquisition will expand footprint in the region and compliment existing products

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