Safety Articles

With April already upon us, that means the warmer months are nearly here. The snow is melting, and you’re hopefully already starting...

Struck-by, struck-against and back-over incidents are far too common:421 Hudson St., Manhattan, New York City, April 21, 2016: Construction worker killed by...

“Roller coaster” is a fitting term for the tortuous route Scott Sanchez has taken to find entrepreneurial success. In an industry where market...

Drones aren’t just for taking pretty pictures anymore. Sophisticated analytics, tools to improve safety and compliance, simplification of survey work — drones...

It’s easy to make a list of PPE for your workers — less simple is determining where and when that PPE is...

Buoyed by an emphasis on employee safety and a sharp focus on nothing but hydroexcavating, Northstar Hydrovac has grown into a multimillion-dollar-a-year...

Everyone in the industry has heard at least one horror story about someone getting fired or demoted for reporting a safety violation. In...

As the year comes to a close, we take a look at some of the most popular stories on www.digdifferent.com. If you...

I’ve been out of high school now for almost 20 years, so there isn’t much I remember about it these days. There...

There are a hundred little things on a construction site that can potentially endanger the public; that’s why having a foolproof plan...

Disease, blindness, trauma, death — these are the risks for service industry workers when they fail to use basic personal protective equipment. Some...

Any time individuals are working around large equipment like auger boring machines — no matter the industry — there is always a...

As many of you know, April was National Safe Digging Month. It’s meant to bring awareness to the importance of locating utility...

Increased density of development has created an unforeseen result — a growing number of accidental underground utility strikes. The Common Ground Alliance’s...