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Monthly Archives: July 2015

What to Wear While Welding

Of all of the hand tools on a job site, welding can be one of the most dangerous when used by an inexperienced or inattentive worker.

Welding PPEWelding risks include electric shock, inhalation of toxic fumes, eye injury and skin burns. Protective clothing and equipment, including helmets and shields, must be worn during all welding operations.

There are two common types of welding: Arc and oxyacetylene. Arc welding uses a welding power supply to create an electric arc between an electrode and the base material to melt the metals at the welding point. Oxyacetylene is an oxygen-fuel process that uses a variety of gases, the most common being acetylene, to weld and cut...

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The Equipment Decontamination Process

hazardous cleanupWhen equipment is used to clean up a job site with hazardous waste and debris contaminated with toxic material, decontaminating the equipment after it is used is not only important to the health and safety of upcoming operators, but to the mechanics, drivers and the people who may come into contact with it in the future.

A company involved in remediation job sites that contain hazardous materials should have a policies and procedures manual to guide field personnel through the equipment decontamination process.

Briefly, the process for equipment decontamination is as follows:

  • Map the area where the equipment decontamination will occur, identifying topography, access routes to the area, evacuation routes, areas of the...
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A Shopper’s Paradise is Built

Whoever said mega-malls are dead has not checked out The Mall at University Town Center in Sarasota, Florida.

shoppingCompleted in October 2014, the two-year, fast-paced, 895,000-square foot mall has Saks Fifth Avenue, Dillard’s and Macy’s as major tenants, and more than 100 other stores, including Apple, Michael Kors, Tesla, Microsoft, Lululemon, Kate Spade New York, Anthropologie, Calypso St. Barth, and L’Occitane. Restaurants include the Capital Grille, the Cheesecake Factory, BRIO Tuscan Grille, Kona Grill, Seasons 52, and Burger & Beer Joint.

More than 1,000 workers built the mall in the affluent Sarasota area to fill a market void for an upscale destination shopping experience between Tampa and Naples.

The project had been on the...

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Hauling Equipment the Proper Way

Whether hauling equipment across a job site or across town, it must be properly tied down to a trailer.

5060103696_625ba60116_bFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Rule 393.106 is very specific about how to determine the aggregate working load limits for tie downs.

The Federal Motor Carrier Regulations' aggregate working load limit (WLL) uses equipment weight to identify the number of tie downs needed, as well as the tie downs’ capacity. The basic requirement is that tie downs must have a combined strength equal to at least 50 percent of the load being secured.

The rule requires that the aggregate working load limit is the sum of one-half the working load limit of each tie down...

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