Posts by cvoyles

By cvoyles on Jul 23, 2012 in Updates |

Many of the training handouts have now been made available in other languages. Below is a full list of what has been made available. The first document is in English, and proceeding documents are in Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Spanish. Ladder Safety For Residential Construction Contractors(MA Dept. of Public Health) Sekirite nan sèviak nechèlpou mèt chantye ki travaynan konstriksyon kay (Haitian Creole) Segurança no uso das escadas de mão Para empreiteiros da construção residencial (Portuguese) Seguridad en las Escaleras Portátiles: Para contratistas de construcción residencial (Spanish) Scaffold Safety For Residential Construction Contractors  (MA Dept. of  Public Health) Sekirite nan travay sou echafodaj pou mèt chantye nan kontriksyon kay (Haitian Creole) Segurança no uso das escadas de mão Para empreiteiros da construção residencial (Portuguese) Seguridad en las Escaleras Portátiles: Para contratistas de construcción residencial (Spanish) FALLS The Leading Killer on Construction Sites (MA Dept. of Public Health) Sot tonbe se bagay ki tiye plis moun nan travay konstriksyon (Haitian Creole) Segurança no uso das escadas de mão Para empreiteiros da construção residencial (Portuguese) Seguridad en las Escaleras Portátiles: Para contratistas de construcción residencial (Spanish) The handouts had been previously available in English and Spanish only. The Massachusetts Department of Health plans on translating these handouts into more languages as the campaign...

By cvoyles on Jul 23, 2012 in Updates |

Northern West Virginia Chapter of American Society of Safety Engineers featured the Campaign To Prevent Falls in Construction poster as their Safety Sign of the Month. Check out their newsletter here (PDF) and check our Training & Other Resources page for the Campaign poster and other...

By cvoyles on Jul 20, 2012 in Updates |

This week, OSHA released versions of the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction fact sheets in both Polish and Russian. For other Campaign materials, visit our Training & Other Resources page, or check out OSHA’s material at their Stop Falls...

By cvoyles on Jul 20, 2012 in Updates |

On the Department of Labor’s Official Blog (Work In Progress), Dr. David Michaels has written about the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction. From his post: Too many workers continue to plummet from a towering scaffold, a roof or precarious ladders due to a lack of supervision or provision of safeguards.  The numbers are glaring: in 2010, more than 250 workers lost their lives in falls on construction sites, while more than 10,000 were seriously injured. At the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, we have answered the call to prevent any more needless deaths with our nationwide education and outreach campaign to prevent falls in the construction industry.  It’s my firm conviction that each and every one of these falls is preventable. Read more of Dr. David Michael’s thoughts on the campaign and why it is so important at (Work In...

By cvoyles on Jul 18, 2012 in Updates |

OSHA has developed stickers to help raise awareness of the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction. These stickers can affixed onto equipment on a work site, to spread the word: Safety Pays. Falls Cost. Want to order these stickers for yourself? To order these or any of OSHA’s outreach materials, call OSHA’s Office of Communications at (202) 693-1999 or visit OSHA’s Publications...