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One company and a trade organisation are working together to recycle textiles into building materials
New industrial helmets to include low-friction layer to protect agains brain injuries
US-based trade association reveals list of 250 top non-union contractors in America
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Swedish company Mips eyes growing demand in construction for protection from brain injuries
A smart safety shoe that can detect when a worker has suffered a fall and automatically send alerts in emergency situations is set to be launched later this year.
US contractors and one trade group are working together on reducing highway construction crashes
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Inside construction’s workforce crisis with Dr Donna Laquidara-Carr of Dodge Construction Network
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The Trump administration is dissolving a 54-year-old health and safety agency
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has named the contractor it says had the nation’s top construction safety and health program in 2024
An extremely dry state in the US is implementing its own workplace heat protection rules
A look at how the coldest of regions can prepare for the coming season
A US utility contractor association has named a new safety programme leader
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A new smart safety helmet that its manufacturers claim is a ‘world first’ can detect falls and impacts and automatically call for help
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A look at how the construction companies around the world are keeping workers safe in sweltering heat
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A shortage of PPE for women is encouraging some construction contractors to start designing their own.
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Society of Women Engineers survey reports only 4% of respondents able to acquire perfectly fitting PPE
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In 2022, nearly 1 in 5 workplace deaths happened in construction, with 38% of those due to falls
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PPE specialist Chris Tidy weighs up the pros and cons of hard hats relative to construction safety helmets.
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The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is replacing the traditional hard hats used by its employees with safety helmets.
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With 2023 on track to be the hottest year on record, construction firms are looking to new technologies to protect workers from the heat, leading some to coin the phrase ‘internal PPE’.