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 past Dig Different safety articles worth revisiting:
- This article looks at everything involved in completing a directional drilling job safely.
- A significant factor in job site accidents is communication breakdown among workers. This article takes a closer look at a tool more companies are embracing to help combat the high noise levels associated with construction sites that oftentimes hurts those communication efforts — wireless headsets.
- It requires a lot of diligence to keep an isolated job site safe. What if the job site is along a busy roadside? This article offers some advice on how to go about keeping both your crew and the public safe when your work site is encroaching on a well-traveled roadway.
- The possibility of injury or death should be incentive enough to always keep safety top of mind. If you need more, this article looks at yet another reason — how workplace injuries can both directly and indirectly affect your company’s bottom line.
- There is a lot to consider in terms of safety when it comes to doing the work at the job site, but another safety area you can’t overlook is the hauling of heavy equipment to and from the site. Check out this article about what it takes to safely haul large pieces of equipment like excavators and directional drills.
