Safety

Who is Responsible for Roofing Contractors While They’re on a Residential Roof?

If you’re a homeowner, you might not know everything there is to know about making repairs on a residential roof. Even if you are an avid do-it-yourself practitioner who feels comfortable working on your home’s roof, sometimes you will need to rely on professional...

Watch Your Step: Steep Roofing Safety Tips

Steep roofs can be dangerous and tricky to climb onto. Once you’ve climbed up onto one, you’ll want to watch your step. In this blog, we’ll go over some steep roofing safety tips. Keep these in mind the next time you try to do-it-yourself. But as always, if you feel...

What Is a Roof Safety Harness and Personal Fall Arrest System?

For some roof construction jobs, working from a scaffold isn’t a viable option. In these cases, workers need some way to protect themselves from a fall. The most common way to ensure a worker is safe while working on a steeply pitched roof is the use of a roof safety...

Construction Safety Plan Basics

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Construction sites are naturally dangerous places. Working on top of buildings, on ladders, and with heavy equipment and materials make for a workplace where safety has to be a main priority. OSHA and many states require written safety plans for certain workplace...

Safety First: Construction Safety and Preventing Falls

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This week marks the third annual National Safety Stand-Down week. For the past three years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has used this week to bring attention to construction site falls, one of the continuously leading causes of on-site...