Practicing job site safety can save your company time, money—and most importantly—lives.

Terex Aerial Work Platforms is participating in OSHA’s National Fall Prevention Stand-down, May 2-6, by offering free Genie marketing safety kits to support safety awareness and training initiatives in the aerial access industry. 

Fall protection and ladder safety trainings planned during OSHA’S annual Stand Down to Safety initiative.

The following statement was released by the North America's Building Trades Unions in reaction to the issuing of a new OSHA standard for silica:

To support the OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down to prevent falls in construction, Houston South Area Office OSHA U.S. Department of Labor, Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston, American Subcontractors Association-Houston Chapter, Central South Carpenters Regional Council, Gulf Coast Safety Institute/College of the Mainland, and Scaffold & Access Industry Association have aligned to offer the Houston area construction industry an afternoon of presentations and demonstrations to assist in preventing falls.

“Safety is not a luxury; it’s a necessity that every worker deserves,” said Jordan Barab, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health, speaking to an audience of about 250 at the IPAF Summit on March 26, 2015 in Washington, D.C.

Beginning January 1, 2015, there will be a change to what covered employers are required to report to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Introducing simple, easy-to-read new packaging—compliant with new OSHA mandate effective June 1, 2015.

There were 23 fatalities worldwide involving aerial work platforms in the first half of 2014.