Ladders are essential tools on a variety of job sites, easy to obtain and simple to use. As fatal injury and rule violation data show, however, their safe use is hardly guaranteed. Help is now ...

Ladder Safety remains a top concern for facility operations and their maintenance crews. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) believes that injuries caused by improper use of ladders ...

Why focus on ladder safety? Because every year over 100 people die from ladder-related accidents and thousands more are injured. And most of these accidents are preventable. The goals of ladder safety ...

OSHA has published a new bilingual English-Spanish booklet on safe ladder use. Developed in partnership with the Singapore Workplace Safety and Health Council and Ministry of Manpower, the booklet ...

Since the 1990s, videos and computers have become increasingly popular tools for safety and health training. Along the way, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has raised concerns ...

If you open 29CFR 1926 and turn to Subpart X, you will see the fifth subpart is 1926.1060. This provides the training requirements for stairways and ladders. “Wait,” you might say. “My grandson is ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) takes employee safety training very seriously, and in support of that commitment the agency recently reinforced its stated policy that online ...