Worksite Today

Module construction has it’s advantages depending on the situation and places significant pressure on both the procurement and design schedules.

Beyond quality management and improved completion time, modular construction offers numerous other benefits to owners. Removing approximately 80% of the building construction activity from the site location significantly reduces site disruption, vehicular traffic and improves overall safety and … Read More...

Winter is coming and inventory looks good as all the shelves are stocked with your cold weather flame resistant protection garments of choice at our online store (Safety Protection Warehouse).

Today is September 24, 2015 and I would suggest you BUY NOW before the FR insulated clothing is gone as it sells out fast.
You don’t want to … Read More...

We get asked the question a lot concerning  if you can “wash out” the flame resistant protection from your FR garments. The answer is that it depends.
Most FR fabrics made these days and especially the products we sell the FR properties cannot be washed out. There may be other fabrics out on the market that are topically … Read More...

Update on the medium weight 4.0 oz. Walls insulated coveralls.
Looks like the factory is keeping the softer feeling twill fabric in the navy blue color only and the tough duck duck in the brown and black colors.

Both styles come in the short, regular and tall lengths which is good.
They have decided to bring back the … Read More...

The responsibility always falls back on the employer as they must oversee and ensure that employees are protected while on the job.

The same rules apply to whether the arc rated garments are laundered at home, by the employer or through a rental/cleaning service. What this means is that the garments must not only be laundered properly to … Read More...

It is up to each and every facility to perform an arc flash analysis in order to limit the injury incurred during a fault to a level no greater than 1.2 cal/cm2) which equates to a curable second degree burn. The difficult part is what if you are called in to work on a piece of equipment where … Read More...

Your safety program has to include requirements for ensuring proper hearing protection is required for arc flash protection.

When considering the correct ppe for arc flash protection did you know that the NFPA 70E 2015 standard requires workers in an arc flash hazard zone to wear insert-type hearing protection (ear plugs)? This is a subject that may not … Read More...

An explosion of flash fire can happen in an instant without fore warning and you need to be sure that the flame resistant clothing is really providing the protection that you think it is. When an accident occurs such as a flash fire this is not the time to be questioning your PPE.

There is more FR clothing … Read More...

Falls have been the leading cause of death on construction sites for many years now.  Regardless of the focus placed on this epidemic from small, residential projects to large commercial structures, people continue to add to the fatal fall statistics.  Sometimes this is the result of a well-trained and properly equipped worker not doing what they were supposed … Read More...

Fall arrest is the act of stopping a person that is already falling and therefore personal protective equipment has been developed to help save lives.

Fall protection equipment is provided in various components including personal body harnesses, lanyards and lifelines.

A package for protecting workers from falls greater then 6 feet would consist of the following components. Individually … Read More...