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In the good old days, that is, prior to the present Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, scaffold standards, fall protection included toeboards. Old habits die hard and some people think that toeboards are still part of a fall protection system. Now, unless you are literally laying...

More than one article has been written concerning fall protection for walking/working surfaces, including open sided floors, roofs, and scaffolds. Many articles have discussed the various forms of fall protection, fall protection for roofers and scaffold erectors, fall protection regulations, and...

As we enter the new year we carry with us the practices of the old year with the hope for a better future. While there is very little historical data, it is assumed we are safer today than say, a hundred years ago. With scaffolds in particular, it seems to be generally assumed that we proudly go...

Life is good when we get the quick fix! As children, our restless minds never want to work out the solution; just tell us the answer. Never mind how to get that answer. As adults, I’m not convinced our attitudes have changed much. Only the stakes have changed. We still strive for those easy...

In January of this year I wrote an article titled “A Better New Year?” The article described fatality statistics in the construction industry. If you will recall, in 1997 there were almost 700 fall related deaths which means that, on average, there were at least two deaths per workday attributed to...