Portal: Safety

To work safely in and around heavy traffic there are many things to be concerned about.

There have been articles, safety tips, and numerous discussions over respirators and dust masks in past issues of Shotcrete magazine that show and talk about what your workers should be wearing.

With shotcrete needed in a wide variety of locations and environments, we have often learned that aerial lift equipment is the best and fastest way to access all the places where shotcrete is placed.

Today?s shotcrete placement, equipment, and personnel have evolved over the years, bringing a number of new safety items and topics.

Shotcrete workers are subject to noise, much of which is at potentially dangerous decibel levels.

Most experienced concrete professionals are familiar with the hazards associated with portland cement mixtures, yet despite the precautionary steps most of those professionals follow, hospital emergency rooms, year after year, see far too many cases of cement burns.

There are many options for hoses to use for the concrete pumping portion of wet-process shotcrete application,

Job-Site Safety is More Than a Hard-Hat Sticker

You know that saying, ?What you don?t know can?t hurt you?? Guess what? IT CAN!