Entries from 2016-09-01 to 1 month

Advanced Scaffolding Secrets Revealed

Scaffolding This is not just Swiss pride speaking. To illustrate the Swiss difference, Laurenti produces two pictures. One is of a scaffolded building in central London; the other is a scaffolded building in Switzerland. The reason they lo…

Surveys seek feedback about CMV driver medical exams

Scaffolding planks A new set of surveys from the American Transportation Research Institute (the research arm of the American Trucking Associations) and Mayo Clinic asks motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle drivers about how regulat…

Fiona Sennett Operations Manager at 48.3 International

Scaffolding planks We reached out to some international training centres for their reaction to this shocking news.The CITB Scheme has been adopted by many countries and considered the market leader by most major clients – we have been acti…

Report offers recommendations for CMV drivers with controlled diabetes

Scaffolding tube AFMCSA announced the availability of the report as part of a notice published in the Sept. 9 Federal Register. The board offered more than two dozen recommendations in the report, including: CMV drivers must provide medica…

CITB to close provision of services and products to international centres

Scaffolding tube The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) says on its website that it has been,“Supporting major contractors, training providers and individuals globally for over 45 years,” that global support looks like it is comin…

The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health praised the regulations

Frame scaffolding The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health praised the regulations as a way to shine a spotlight on contractors who jeopardize worker safety. However, another group claims current rules are sufficient to keep…

Traffic-related deaths increased sharply in 2015, NHTSA says

Frame Scaffolding A total of 35,092 people died in traffic-related incidents in 2015 – up 7.2 percent from 32,744 the previous year and the largest one-year percentage increase in nearly 50 years, according to data released Aug. 29 by the …

OSHA, Health Canada create work plan for coordinated hazcom effort

frame-scaffoldingOSHA and Health Canada have developed a work plan intended to align U.S. and Canadian requirements for classifying and sharing information about work-related chemical hazards. The work plan stems from a 2013 Memorandum of …

OSHA, Health Canada create work plan for coordinated hazcom effort

frame-scaffoldingOSHA and Health Canada have developed a work plan intended to align U.S. and Canadian requirements for classifying and sharing information about work-related chemical hazards. The work plan stems from a 2013 Memorandum of …

Worker dies after being pinned by truck axle

Frame ScaffoldingIssued by: Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation ProgramDate of incident: Sept. 19, 2013 A 58-year-old heavy equipment mechanic died while replacing an air bag on a tri-axle dump truck. On the day of the inci…

We listen to all our clients needs in this market and believe that we offer the most flexible

“We listen to all our clients needs in this market and believe that we offer the most flexible and client specific training in the world rather than making the world fit into a UK specific training program.” Frame scaffolding “As CISRS are…

Proposed rule would place speed limiters on large commercial vehicles

Scaffolding planks The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration have announced a proposed rule that would require the installation of speed-limiting devices on trucks, buses and mul…