Safety Archives - Gregory Construction https://gregoryconstruction.com/category/safety/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:22:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Hard Hat Revolution: A Journey Through History and Our Bold New Design https://gregoryconstruction.com/the-hard-hat-revolution-a-journey-through-history-and-our-bold-new-design/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-hard-hat-revolution-a-journey-through-history-and-our-bold-new-design Mon, 25 Nov 2024 20:22:44 +0000 https://gregoryconstruction.com/?p=3756 New Equipment: Setting The Standard in Safety and Design As we approach December and the birth month of hard hat inventor Edward Bullard, we are excited to introduce the roll out of our new safety helmets, offering greater safety and comfort to our employees. Studson Type 2 Gregory Construction has begun implementation of Studson Type […]

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]]> The Most Common Hazards in Construction & How to Avoid Them https://gregoryconstruction.com/the-most-common-hazards-in-construction-how-to-avoid-them/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-most-common-hazards-in-construction-how-to-avoid-them Mon, 16 Oct 2023 20:17:13 +0000 https://gregoryconstruction.com/?p=3276 Construction workers don’t wear hard hats for nothing. Construction is a dangerous job with 79,660 nonfatal injuries and 1,102 fatal injuries in 2019. Falls account for the largest number of deaths in construction (36.4% in 2019) with struck-by incidents, electrocutions, and caught-in/between incidents being the next three most prevalent. At Gregory Construction, those numbers really […]

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]]> That Which Is Measured Improves https://gregoryconstruction.com/that-which-is-measured-improves/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=that-which-is-measured-improves Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:04:24 +0000 https://gregoryconstruction.com/?p=3169 Karl Pearson was an English mathematician in the 1850s. If you struggled in your college Statistics course, feel free to blame him (among others most likely) because he invented it. Despite how you might feel about correlations, standard deviations, and sampling errors, Professor Pearson left us with a useful and challenging quote: “That which is […]

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]]> Workplace Violence: How Gregory Construction Creates a Safe Work Environment https://gregoryconstruction.com/workplace-violence-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=workplace-violence-blog Wed, 27 Apr 2022 17:46:42 +0000 https://gregoryconstruction.com/?p=3142 Workplace violence is still one of the leading causes of fatal occupational incidents on job sites currently, coming in at third overall. A lot of workers report workplace violence encounters each year; however, even more cases do not get reported at all. Gregory Construction has worked the last 158,618 Man-Hours without a recordable incident. While […]

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