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Hoists and elevators are invaluable productivity enhancement devices used in project construction and renovation. It would be impossible to complete today’s projects without hoists and elevators to move workers and materials vertically. The Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration,...

What does the year 2005 hold for the scaffold industry? Typically, at the beginning of the year all sorts of “experts” predict the future for those of us who don’t possess the requisite expertise to ascertain future events. Having thought about it for a while, I decided that I could do as well as...

If I was to tell you that I was going to be committed, would you consider joining me or would you look at me with some suspicion? And why would you look at me with some suspicion? How about if I was to suggest that you should be committed? Would you take offense to that? Well, don’t be offended but...

Why did my enclosed scaffold fall over? Why is there asbestos (or lead–take your pick) contaminating the worksite? I followed the regulations; the scaffold shouldn’t have done this to me! Ah, the lament of the uniformed scaffold user. It seems that enclosed scaffolds have a propensity to fall over....

It is suggested that safety in the industrial sector of the construction market is safer than the commercial sector which is safer than the residential market. Is this true? How can it be true? After all, don’t the same safety standards apply to all construction? If experience has anything to do...