Safety

The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) cited Kellenberger Plumbing & Underground for one willful and one serious safety violation for...

Workplace safety is too important for employers to overlook. With nearly 3 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported each year by...

Stephens Plumbing of Birmingham, Alabama, faces $43,800 in penalties for one willful and four serious safety violations after an inspector for the...

Note: This is the second of a two-part series on trench safety and the story of a cave-in survivor who dispels the...

Note: This is the first of a two-part series on trench safety and the need for proper shoring. In Part 2 of the series, a...

April is National Safe Digging Month, an opportunity to promote safe practices in an effort to curb the epidemic of plumbing deaths...

Twenty-one-year-old Jacob Casher was still a “new guy” employed by a Beaver, Pennsylvania-based plumbing company when he left home for work in September...

A 61-year-old plumber died after a trench in which he was working collapsed on him. Jim Spencer of Minatare, Nebraska, was installing...

World Plumbing Day is an international event initiated by the World Plumbing Council in 2010 to recognize the important role plumbing plays in the...

A plumber from the United Kingdom is swapping his work van for a scooter when he heads to Gambia this month.But there...

Here’s a look back at 2015:10. Free or Fee: Do You Charge for Video Inspections?It might seem bad business to give away...

Bob “Hot Rod” Rohr, training and education manager for Caleffi Hydronic Solutions, leads a free webinar “Part 2: Proper Component Selection for...

It’s hardly news that many plumbing contractors look at the expense side of the ledger every month with an eye toward trimming...

Plumbing codes help ensure our health and safety. On a national level, the Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC), developed and published by the...

Bob “Hot Rod” Rohr, training and education manager for Caleffi Hydronic Solutions, leads a free webinar, “Part 1: Proper Component Selection for...

A plumber who died in August from burns sustained in a home explosion did not vent the propane line he was purging...

The 2015 Uniform Solar Energy and Hydronics Code (USEHC), developed by International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO) and released in...