Even working outdoors on a construction site, inhaling dangerous dust or chemicals can be a real problem. Carpenters are often working very hard on construction sites, often seen cutting wood and paneling and siding using a variety of cutting tools and saws for each job. Good professional carpenters know what to use for each job, [...]
As many of you know, I can tend to be a little verbose when it comes to certain safety topics. When I want to recap an article I find in one of the safety magazines that I receive, I will tend to take an article that might take 10-15 minutes to read and I break it [...]
As you know, I do love giving information and education from the cozy confines of this blog. Many times I am sharing valuable information from various articles I have read, but sometimes I also find little tidbits of information that I feel would be of value to my loyal readers (and those of you who [...]
What you don't know can't hurt you. What you can't see is the most dangerous. While those two axioms may seem contradictory in some way, they are actually both true, especially when it comes to the air you and your workers breathe at a worksite. [Image courtesy of Flickr user Jason Pratt via a [...]
Really, I finally need to vent. I need to get some fresh air, because something has sure been stinking around here. I need to blow off some steam and maybe become a big fan of something more positive. OK, I feel better. Time to move on. [Image courtesy of Flickr user Jason Pratt via [...]
As I have been writing and discussing in the last couple of posts, the explosion of oil and gas exploration and development in recent years due to innovations and advancement in technology have created higher demand for workers in the industry, and there has been an increase in supply of workers because of salaries being hiked [...]
Talk about dangerous work. When it comes to always working around flammable materials like oil or natural gas - adding in the pressure that those liquids are under as oil and gas companies pump the ground to extract that "black gold" - and there are very few occupations out there that are so dangerous on [...]
There is little doubt now that, with the advancing technology in the oil and gas exploration industry, there is a new energy boom in North America. From the Bakken oil shale fields in North Dakota, to shale around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, and of course the new resources in western Canadian provinces like Alberta, British [...]
We all like to think that when we are not on company time, we're on personal time and we can be who we are, instead of who we should be when in the office. Yes, your time is your own. Unless, of course, you act "stupidly," as the President of the United States once said. [...]
We can be honest. We're all friends here. Who hasn't had that boss that was intimidating, harsh, cruel or downright abusive - especially verbally or mentally? And how many of us, after getting a lashing from our boss, stewed until we drove home and thought, "I probably should have said this," and then you got [...]
