Safety should always be on your mind, but June is a time to emphasize safety even more with it being officially designated National Safety Month.
For general information about National Safety Month, visit the National Safety Council’s website.
And here we’ve compiled a few Plumber safety articles worth revisiting that pertain specifically to the plumbing industry:
- This two-part series covers a list of 14 items work crews need to account for to safely work in and around trenches, as well as some accounts of contractors who saw firsthand how dangerous working in a trench can be: Trench Safety Part 1; Trench Safety Part 2.
- Regular tailgate sessions with workers are a good way to address safety topics. This article discusses how to effectively handle such meetings so that people’s safety consciousness is increased when it comes time to do the actual work on the job site.
- The job site gets a lot of attention when it comes to safety, and rightfully so. But it’s important to remember that workplace safety is also tied to what workers do off the clock. This article provides some tips on how to encourage healthy habits for workers that will then translate into job site safety.
- There are a lot of tools out there that can help on the safety front. One example is featured in this article — an indoor GPS system suited for tracking workers on large job sites and warning them if they enter a dangerous area when they aren’t supposed to.
