Consensus among safety professionals is that the primary cause of ladder injuries is lack of training on their use. “Helping people get home safely is why we come to work each day,” said Ryan Moss, ...

Employers may get a reprieve from a deadline that will require them to install additional safety systems on certain ladders on their worksites within 10 years. A new ...

This Monday, April 6, 206, OSHA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to eliminate a compliance deadline to install personal fall arrest/ladder safety systems on fixed ladders over 24 feet tall (i.e.

Washington — OSHA is seeking to eliminate its November 2036 deadline for employers to install personal fall arrest or safety systems on certain fixed ladders. A proposed rule/request for comments ...

Ladders have always been a common tool—but under today’s safety standards, they come with new responsibilities. With OSHA’s update to Subpart D, a major change is reshaping how organizations must ...

Why focus on ladder safety? Because every year over 100 people die from ladder-related accidents and thousands more are injured. And most of these accidents are preventable. The goals of ladder safety ...

Each year, more than 70 construction workers are killed as a result of a fall from a ladder, and more than 4,000 others suffer lost-time injuries, estimates CPWR – The Center for Construction Research ...

Falls from portable ladders (step, straight, combination and extension) are one of the leading causes of workplace injuries and fatalities. Appropriate precautions can reduce the risk significantly.

Ladders are essential tools on a variety of job sites, easy to obtain and simple to use. As fatal injury and rule violation data show, however, their safe use is hardly guaranteed. Help is now ...