Content Tagged: "OSHA"

When the nation first observed Workers Memorial Day on April 28, 1970, an estimated 38 U.S. workers suffered fatal on-the-job injuries each day and many more endured debilitating respiratory diseases and other life-altering illnesses related to workplace exposures.

The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace has condemned OSHA's final rule on its “Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process,” which goes into effect May 31, 2024. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) 11th annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction is scheduled for May 6-10, 2024.

Hello, ARA Region Eight members. I’m Sam Castillo from Tates Rents and I’ll be your ARA Region Eight director for the next three years. I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to communicate directly with so many of you across our region of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.

Hello, fellow ARA Region One members! Sarah Wilper, your regional director, here. I would like to offer some of my personal reflections on The ARA Show™ in New Orleans and spotlight a couple of the exciting new initiatives launched by ARA at the event.

Greetings, rental operators across ARA's Region Three. If you attended The ARA Show™ in New Orleans last month you might be aware, but ARA rolled out some new initiatives at the show that you definitely want to know about.

Technology apps can help your business run more efficiently and productively. The question is: Which apps really make a difference? To help, Rental Management asked rental store operators to share what apps they are using and why.

Herc Rentals, Bonita Springs, Fla., recently acquired California-based Quality Equipment Rentals and Wisconsin-based Aerial Work Platforms through separate transactions.

Depending on your rental operation and customer mix, you might use and rent a variety of forklifts. No matter what type of forklifts you have, the American Rental Association’s (ARA) brand-new Certified Forklift Training program, which will be unveiled at The ARA Show™, Feb. 18-21 in New Orleans, has you covered.

Never having been in event rental didn’t stop Matt and Kendall Moretz with The Festive Elk in Boone, N.C.; Kelli Crosby with Sugar Moon Mobile Bar Co. in Colorado Springs, Colo.; nor Mike and Spencer Henle with Twin Cities Tent & Event Rental in St. Paul, Minn., from joining the industry. Each saw the opportunities this segment provides and went full speed ahead.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) civil penalty amounts, based on cost-of-living adjustments for 2024, increased effective Jan. 16, 2024.

OSHA has developed resources to help protect outdoor workers from exposure to extreme cold, injuries during snow removal, slipping on ice and other winter weather hazards. 

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it will replace traditional hard hats used by its employees with more modern safety helmets for better protection on inspection sites.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) signed an agreement with the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (CCO) and the NCCCO Foundation to protect workers who operate cranes better.

In 2022’s year-end wrap-up, we wrote about the then-recent midterm elections and how they would bode for the 118th session of Congress.

John Deere, Moline, Ill., is committed to matching donations, up to a total of $100,000, made to the Construction Angels nonprofit organization from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 2023.

As cold weather arrives, what to do and not do to keep safe involve a number of potential factors and scenarios. Job sites, homes, businesses, vehicles and more all may have a cold weather-related challenge to confront.

Employers should offer workers training that includes how to recognize the environmental and workplace conditions that can lead to cold stress.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports that on average there are more than 200 workplace fires per day, with an average of more than 5,000 people injured by workplace fires annually. Those are startling statistics — ones no rental operator nor their employees want to be part of.  

A new rule will require certain employers in designated high-hazard industries to electronically submit injury and illness information — that they are already required to keep — to OSHA. 

The Coalition for Workplace Safety has submitted a letter — which the American Rental Association has signed along with 73 other organizations — requesting an extension to the comment period on OSHA's notice of proposed rulemaking to the “Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process.” 

The U.S. Department of Labor has awarded through its Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) approximately $12.7 million in grants to 100 nonprofit organizations across the nation to support education and training to help workers and employers recognize serious workplace hazards, employ injury prevention, and understand workers’ rights and employers’ responsibilities under federal law.

The American Rental Association (ARA) is set to expand its ARA Certified course lineup with the launch of ARA Certified Forklift Training in January 2024. 

DICA, Urbandale, Iowa, and Hydro Mobile, Quebec, Canada, a manufacturer of mast climbing work platforms, have collaborated to design and manufacture specialty SafetyTech® support pads for use with all of Hydro Mobile M, P, F, and S-Series units.