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Digging Your Own Grave
Trenching Safety Crucial To Avoid Cave-Ins

Trench fatalities represented six percent of all construction related deaths last year, and more workers died in trenches in 2003 than they did the previous year. 

With 50 trench fatalities officially recorded, another 16 workers died in or around trenches after being struck by something or falling into the very excavation they may have helped dig. 

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Ted Garland and Joe Adams of Risk Services-Nevada
trained Reno contractors on excavation safety at the
offices of ABC Sierra Chapter

Scaffold Safety Vital To Keeping Workers Safe
by Joe Wheeler

Nothing good happens when a scaffold goes down.

What was an effective platform for working above ground suddenly turns into a landslide of twisting steel and crushing wood. Collapsing scaffolds have destroyed buildings, trucks, equipment, and rank as one of the major causes of death on a construction site.

OSHA requires that anyone working on or even near a scaffold be trained in scaffold safety requirements. Nevada Contractors Insurance hosted a hands-on scaffold safety class in November at the offices of Risk Services-Nevada in Las Vegas. The course was developed by the Scaffold Industry Association and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and taught by Josh Schultz, safety and loss control manager for Risk Services-Nevada and Jerry Peck, owner of Nevada Scaffold & Equipment and chairman of NCI’s Safety Committee.

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Miquel Grijalva, supervisor with Nevada Scaffold & Equipment, sets
up a demonstration scaffold
at the training seminar with
assistant Jose Teran.

Jeff Kranitsky explains the finer points of staying
safe while working with explosive gases

Welding and Compressed Gas Safety

Jeff Kranitsky, a safety and loss control representative with Risk Services-Nevada, described proper handling and storage of compressed gas cylinders, and said that welding operations around volatile gases can turn dangerous in a matter of moments.

"There was a company that had a worker weld an aluminum gas tank for a custom boat. He had been using solvents to clean the tank and everything was fine. Until he enclosed the tank," Kranitsky said. "The whole tank blew up -- it blew the lens right out of his welding hood and burned his face. We figured out that he had just used the solvent on an enclosed tank and the vapors got him."

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Steel Safety Challenge
Met By Local Company

He calls his guys the "Posse," and puts them in charge of making sure every worker on the job is paying attention to safety. 

When he gets a call saying that someone’s not playing by the rules, everyone know there’s trouble brewing. They better head for the hills, or mend their ways in a hurry...

The Sheriff is coming to town.

Richard Timmins recently earned his Construction Safety Manager Certification from Nevada Contractors Insurance.
 He accepted the certificate from Josh
Schultz, Risk Services-Nevada. 

OSHA 300 Log Posts February Through March

 It’s February. Do you know where your OSHA 300 log is?  It better be hanging in your office in plain sight, all duly filled out and signed because the fine for not displaying this particularly stale piece of interior decoration is a nifty $1000.

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Scaffold Awareness Crucial To Safe Job Sites
NCI Hosts Hands-On Workshop

Nevada Contractors Insurance hosted an informative, hands-on scaffold safety class in November at the offices of Risk Services-Nevada in Las Vegas.  The course was developed by the Scaffold Industry Association and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and was taught by Ron Landram, director of Risk Services-Nevada and Jerry Peck, owner of Nevada Scaffold & Equipment.

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Safety Committee Tours Renovation Project

A Visit From Your Friendly OSHA Inspector

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