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Construction Safety
Construction’s Silent Crisis: Mental Health
The suicide rate for men in construction is five times greater than the rate for all fatal work-related injuries in the construction industry.
Business
Volvo CE Offers More Services with New Stake in Software Company
Construction Safety
How Builders Can Improve Site Safety
Portable Lighting
Quasar 360 Balloon Light
Portable Lighting
Bobcat PL65 Jobsite Light
Equipment Management
How to Prepare Equipment for Summer Extremes
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Business
White Cap Expands Reach in Oklahoma, Oregon
White Cap has acquired Bend Construction - a supplier of struts, fasteners, anchors, and concrete accessories and products - and Crimson Steel - a distributor and fabricator of engineered steel rebar and structural steel products.
Business
OTR to Open Factory in Mexico
Located in Apodaca, a city in the Monterrey metropolitan area, the site was strategically selected to supply OEM customers with products and services such as tire mounting, sequencing, just-in-time supply and warehousing on a local basis.
Business
Construction Supply Chain and the Baltimore Bridge Collapse
How much will construction and other supply chains be impacted by the collapse of the Baltimore Bridge and the suspension of traffic through the Port of Baltimore? End users may temporarily face delays and increases.
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Labor & Workforce Development
Skilled Trade Labor Shortage: Time for Change
BILT released a research report that indicated that over 30% of the respondents said recent hires would resonate best with immersive digital training and yet it currently only makes up 2% of the present training methods.
Equipment Management
Navigate Your Possibilities With Aftermarket GPS
Integrating GPS or GNSS technology aftermarket is achievable and can provide many benefits to contractors, workers and machines.
Expert Columns
Twin Challenges for Construction in 2024: Technology and Policy Reform
The $1 trillion federal infrastructure bill, growing investment in green power infrastructure, rising U.S. consumer demand, and initiatives to reshore manufacturing have all contributed to tremendous growth in commercial construction.
Construction Safety
3 Tips for Managing Economic Risks on Construction Projects
While you can’t eliminate risk entirely, you can take steps to help reduce it, avoid it and protect against it.
Project Management
Overcoming Confirmation Bias in Construction Project Management
Confirmation bias can be particularly problematic in project and schedule management, where decisions must be based on accurate and comprehensive information.
Business
Jobsite Due Diligence Can Prevent Costly Delays
Good building sites remain on the market. But many of those sites must be made good with early planning and intervention.
Construction Safety
Opioids in Construction: How Home-based Drug Deactivation & Disposal Saves Lives
Whether used by children or adults, excess medications in the household are a huge threat. Eliminating unused medications should be a top priority. Your employees should know that this is important to you as an employer.
Rental
Exceptional Customer Service Starts with Confidence
Customers want to know that the employee they are working with is confident and will be able to serve them in a professional manner.
Construction Safety
Mental Health Options for Construction Workers
If you don’t have mental health support for your workers right now, start the conversation.
Construction Technology
How to Embrace AI in a Tech-averse Construction Industry
The need for collaborative dialogue, ethical oversight, and responsible innovation is paramount to harnessing the benefits of AI while mitigating its risks.
Business
Crane Safety Report Reveals Dangers and Best Practices
As the crane industry continues to navigate major safety challenges, NSC and the NCCCO Foundation plan to continue to provide additional resources to educate crane operators, inspectors, and employers about potential workplace hazards.
Construction Safety
Robots are Rewriting the Rules of Construction Safety
To make worksites safer for humans, we need a smarter approach to automation.
Rental
MCWPs: Safe Work in the Sky
For temporary work at height, mast climbing work platforms and aerial work platforms are some of the safest and most efficient types of equipment you could possibly use. Sadly, accidents can still occur when the best equipment is not used correctly.
Business
Reminder: Call Before You Dig
To keep homeowners, families, and communities safe, a few days before breaking ground, make a free request to have the approximate location of buried lines marked with flags or paint by calling 811.
Construction Safety
Fire Remains an Ever-present Problem in Construction
It is high time now for all stakeholders involved in the fire safety and construction process to collaborate, educate and train on best practices and possibilities afforded by wireless safety technology.
Industrial Forklift
Forklift Battery Safety
How to ensure efficient and secure operations with lithium battery technology.
Coaching & Consulting
Recovery Week: Breaking Down Stigma & Creating Hope
Hope, help, and healing come through recovery. The story behind Building Trades Recovery Week, how it started in Boston, and is now spreading throughout the New England construction industry.
Asphalt
Brigade Electronics to Share VR Tech at World of Asphalt
Brigade will be giving attendees the chance to experience the newest edition of Backeye 360AI using virtual reality (VR).
Construction Safety
4 Steps to Building a Construction Safety Program
Your safety plan—and the culture of safety you cultivate with your team—is your first line of defense to help prevent incidents and protect your bottom line.
Underground Equipment
Buried Risks: Protecting Underground Utilities During Construction
All stakeholders—private and public sector—need to do more to protect the American people from the potentially disastrous impact of striking buried utilities while digging.
Personnel Management
Using Daily Huddles to Keep Your Crews Focused and Productive
So much time and money is wasted when crews are not well organized - here's what you can do to keep everyone on the same page.
Construction Safety
Construction Heavyweight Caterpillar Launches Safety Programs
Using human and organizational performance principles, Caterpillar Safety Services applies a new understanding of human behavior to safety.
Business
Women in Construction Data Report Released
Women in construction are breaking down stereotypes and some are even rising through the ranks, but there is still a long way to go before women can be equally as safe and comfortable on the job site as their male counterparts.
Concrete
Concrete and Silica – Three Factors You Need to Know
If respirable dust is visible in a work area, adequate respiratory protection should be worn by workers in the contaminated area. Fortunately, there is growing awareness for the need for more adequate respiratory protection.
Rental
Are You Loading and Unloading Construction Equipment Safely?
Most of the incidents involving delivery drivers occurred during loading and unloading (48.7%). The main causes of driver-related incidents were identified as insecure load and the machine falling off between ramps.
Business
Get Ready for National Ladder Safety Month
These four weeks each year allow the American Ladder Institute to take deep dives into different aspects of ladder safety, narrowing in on one topic each week, to promote safety tips and training.
Construction Safety
Developing Better Jobsite Safety Strategies
Take this as your sign. Safety planning for your jobsite can no longer be an afterthought.
Personal Protection Equipment
Protecting the Jobsite’s Most Important Asset: Workers' Brains
Type II helmets safeguard personnel from more than falling objects and have other benefits.
Worksite Equipment
Werner Launches Bantam Switch Self-retracting Lifeline
The new Fall Protection Bantam Switch provides movement without the weight of an SRL housing unit on the worker’s back.
Construction Technology
Trackunit Releases TU700 IoT Device
TU700 will enable fleets to move towards 100% coverage offering global roaming, long-range Bluetooth support and Wi-Fi ready capabilities with new self-service CAN configuration.