Understanding your car insurance quote is difficult wherever you live, but a New York car insurance quote can be especially mystifying. Here are some terms you should know when evaluating your quote: Liability Insurance: Reimbursement to others for damages, injury or losses that you or your car caused. Liability insurance comes in two flavors, Bodily [...]

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by Michael Crouch New regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on effluent limitations for the construction industry are now in effect. The final regulations establishing Clean Water Act (CWA) technology-based Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards for the Construction and Development (C&D) point source category were recently published. The EPA expects [...]

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by Julie Rubio Electricity provides us with lights and power, both on the job and at home. It’s such a normal part of our lives that we often forget that all that power can be dangerous, too. We’ve all experienced minor electric shocks, but shocks can be severe enough to kill. Careless use of electricity [...]

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by Julie Rubio OSHA has a number of electrical safety regulations (29 CFR, Subpart S, 1910.301 to 1910.399), most of which involve the design of electrical installations. The top four electrical violations in a recent fiscal year, each of which had more than 950 incidents, involved the following: 1. Conductors 2. Grounding path 3. Guarding [...]

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Ever wonder what to do with all the ‘garbage’ generated on construction sites? The broken concrete, old windows and doors, scrap metal? Well Paul J. Hoffman recently tackled the topic of how we can decrease our footprint by taking part in sustainable construction. Hoffman shows us how those items and more can be reused and [...]

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To alleviate construction related delays, there has been an increase in night-time highway construction projects. If you find yourself working nights, you’ll be facing a different set of challenges than you would during daylight hours. One of those challenges is obviously, lighting. Proper lighting must be provided to illuminate the work area; but at the [...]

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Team members who have been given supervisory authority over safety procedures have a very important position. Essentially, they are responsible for their safety and that of the other team members. It is always a good time to recap the duties of those at your facility or work site that have been given safety supervisory authority. [...]

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With spring finally here, many of us are looking forward to spending more time outside. But spring cleaning duties come first and they extend past the inside of a home. Sometimes the old garden hose just doesn’t do the trick when you need to wash off the grill or clean off the recliner. And you [...]

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