Safety Articles

Getting your truck or equipment noticed will not only draw in potential customers, but could help your employees as well.

Developing a job site plan brings added safety and protection for pedestrians and contractors.

Basic protective equipment is simple, inexpensive, and often the difference between going home and taking a trip to the hospital.

Use these 4 tips to reduce your risk for injury on the job site

Pick up the phone or locator, and make sure you and your crews are avoiding the utilities.

Controlling and mitigating the risks of underground utility strikes.

A new approach is needed to entice millennials to fill construction job vacancies. Sonetics wireless headsets can help.

Are radio rentals costing you thousands of dollars on every job? Dig into the standard reasons for renting, the costs and the alternatives.

The 2017 Top 10 Most Frequently Cited OSHA Standards, and some free resources to help improve worker safety

Technology can help, but it shouldn’t be relied on all the time

A job site with multiple sources of noise makes it difficult to recognize warnings. Learn how to hear safety signals again

You know there is a risk of hearing loss, but there are other impacts high noise exposure can have on your body

From how to manage employees to buying equipment, we look back on some of the best pieces of advice contractors shared in the pages of Dig Different magazine in the past year