Ladders have always been a common tool—but under today’s safety standards, they come with new responsibilities. With OSHA’s update to Subpart D, a major change is reshaping how organizations must ...

This Monday, April 6, 206, OSHA issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to eliminate a compliance deadline to install personal fall arrest/ladder safety systems on fixed ladders over 24 feet tall (i.e.

Employers may get a reprieve from a deadline that will require them to install additional safety systems on certain ladders on their worksites within 10 years. A new ...

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 ...

March is National Ladder Safety Month. It’s a good time for a reminder about some common mistakes that can lead to ladder-related injuries. Here are 10 of them. In certain cases, it might be best to ...

As an employer, one of your most important responsibilities is to provide a safe, injury-free environment for your workers. Your job is not done simply after rolling out a safety program and ...

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 ...