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If a new product is to be successful, it must comply with applicable standards. More importantly, a new product must improve productivity, efficiency, or decrease costs if it is to be successful. Therein lies the challenge: provide a product that is innovative, cost effective, in demand, andstill...

The methodology that is used in the United States to encourage compliance with the safety and health standards isn’t working. That’s a polite way of saying that the strategy the Federal Occupational Safety & Health Administration, OSHA, uses to enforce the regulations is flawed. The strategy is...

Unfortunately, suspended scaffolds, such as window washers scaffolds, make spectacular news items for the local television stations when things go wrong. Based on my familiarity with the standards, regulations, and recommendations regarding the installation and use of single and two point suspended...

Is it possible for scaffold erectors to comply with the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standards for both fall protection and scaffold erection? I think not. Here’s why. Federal OSHA requires that scaffold erectors use safe personal fall arrest protection, if it is...

Is it possible to make a scaffold idiot proof? For that matter, is it necessary? At the recent Scaffold Industry Association (SIA) convention, safety and training were major topics at the various council meetings. This would suggest that it is not possible to make scaffolds idiot proof, but rather...