Safety Articles

Communication is an essential component of a crew’s safety and productivity on a job site. Noisy environments add potential for missed instructions and/or...

Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a way to eliminate the potential for mistakes or accidents on a job site completely?...

Before there is digging, there is locating. Because of the endless proliferation of underground pipelines and cable-carrying conduit, anyone in the U.S....

Safety and quality are two of the most inseparable components to success on a job site. You can’t have one without the...

Discussions of safety in confined spaces and other dangerous environments often center on protecting employees from toxic gases, falls or other big...

In a go-big-or-go-home moment during the deep economic downturn in 2007, Dave Jaeger and his son, Dave Jaeger Jr., decided to start...

The Common Ground Alliance (CGA), a national nonprofit trade association dedicated to protecting underground utility lines and the people who dig near...

To mark OSHA’s National Safety Stand-Down — occurring Sept. 14-18 — Ergodyne is emphasizing the importance of dropped objects prevention. “Over 50,000 workers...

We’ve written about companies of all different sizes in Dig Different magazine, from small operations with two or three employees, all the...

It’s getting crowded out there. From small fiberoptics and cable TV lines to larger water, gas and wastewater pipelines, there’s a significant...

Sonetics Corporation, a longtime global leader in wireless team communication systems for challenging work environments, is remaining open during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Trench collapse (or cave-in) and caught-in (or caught-between) incidents occur too often. In 2014, 39 workers perished in caught-in incidents. Between 2000...

For Rochester Asphalt’s Royal Johnson, communicating with his crew had become an exercise in frustration.Hear how he solved the problem with Sonetics...

I want you to think back to the year 2000. Just two decades ago. It doesn’t seem like that long ago, does...