Safety
Lights Out in the City That Never Sleeps
April 3, 2012 — Times Square and the people who fill it are among the most fundamental sights to be seen in the Big Apple. Amidst the bustle of ticket-hawkers and Naked Cowboy photo opportunists, tourists cluster to stare up at the billboards above Times Square. The gaudy advertisements twinkle around the clock, flashing messages […]
Friday Five – Signs as Art, Regulation, and the Supernatural
Friday, March 30, 2012 — Perhaps a Hazardous Machine sign like this one could have helped prevent injuries during construction of the East Side Access passage. OSHA Fines Contractor In less jubilant news, contractors tunneling the East Side Access passage from Long Island to Grand Central Terminal were fined $48,000 by OSHA on Friday. This […]
Friday Five – Your Weekly Sign and Safety News Roundup
Friday, March 13, 2012 — What’s your sign? This one gets to the point No Parking signs in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are, to put it mildly, full of personality. To combat universal ignoring of no parking signs, the sign below appeals to both the morals and the wallets of parking motorists. The sign reads, “Don’t even […]
OSHA Finds Carcinogens on Your New Subway Line
March 21, 2012 — Fresh on the heels of FACE’s 2011 report on state-by-state workplace fatalities comes shocking news of an excessive amount of the known carcinogen silica in an underground construction site — for a New York City subway. The 2nd Avenue subway line is an exciting expansion to a subway system that doesn’t […]
Friday Five: Sign Industry News Round-Up
Friday, March 16, 2012 — In honor of Friday, we are pleased to bring you the top five stories from the sign industry this week. From the dangerous to the downright weird, this is what you should know about signs and related shenanigans: Traffic sign key to area wreck Traffic signs do no good […]
FACE Releases 2011 Workplace Fatalities Report: Good News for Washington State
March 15, 2012 — Washington State reported only 15 workplace deaths this year, a record low, a study released yesterday shows. The Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (FACE), hosted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health at the Centers for Disease Control, evaluates participating states to increase safety at the workplace. This […]
OSHA Fines Aluminum Manufacturer for Endangering Worker Safety
Wednesday, March 7, 2012 — Fritz Aluminum Services Inc, an aluminum fabrication company located in Eustis, Florida, is about to pay the price for willfully endangering its employees by exposing them to a myriad of safety and health hazards. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is banging down the moneyed […]