A clutter-free job site should be considered one of the Ten Commandments for safety.
Safety Hazards Can Hang Overhead…Protect Yourself with Hopper Guards!
The growing use of shotcrete in mining, tunneling, and other construction markets has lead to the increased use of bulk tote bags
The Need for Safety
See if you can spot the safety concerns in these historic shotcrete pictures!
Scaffolding by the Pros?
I just had a professional scaffolding contractor set up one of our shotcrete jobs. I thought that because I was hiring a firm specializing in scaffolding, I would have a clean and safe workplace for the shotcrete crew.
Reinforcing Steel (aka ?Rebar?) Congestion
Many job sites are congested with all types of building supplies often being moved at a very fast pace.
New Hire Safety Orientations Explained
At Joseph J. Albanese, Inc. (JJA), we take great pride in preparing our new employees for work out in the field.
Forming: A Balance Act
The use of shotcrete for wall construction is becoming more popular every day as an alternative to cast-in-place walls.
Hard Hats and Beer Cans…Now and Then
Why do we wear hard hats? Is it because the sky is falling?
Swimming Pools: Then and Now
In the late sixties when I started in the shotcrete industry, swim-ming pool construction was the main use for dry-mix shotcrete. Ah, yes, the good old œgunite days. Those were the days when safety was strictly a result of good luck. There were no complaints
if you got hurt”you just got over it.
The day would start at 5:30 a.m. in the yard. I drove the gunite rig, which was old, had no trailer brakes, no tail lights, and was held together with tie wire. Shooting the first pool usually would start around 7:00 a.m. The homeowner would always stay home and serve us coffee and donuts no later than 10:00 a.m. We would ï¬nish the ï¬rst pool by 10:30 a.m. or so. After stopping to buy cold beer, our crew headed for our second pool of the day. Again, the homeowner would always stay home on gunite day, waiting for our arrival. Around noon, the home owner would ask if we would like something cool to drink and we would say beer would be fine, thank you. Believing they were being gracious hosts, homeowners served us beer on the job, which was the American way to work in the sixties. We would ï¬nish the second pool around 3:00 p.m.
Now it was time to head for the yard. That is when we started drinking beer on our own time. Back at the yard, we had a complete room devoted to beer drinking. A full supply of cold beer was always on hand. When it got dark we wanted a change of scenery and would head to a bar to let off a little steam. And so it was in the œgunite industry in the sixties when I entered this industry.
Then came along the words œworkers™ compensation. It changed the way we œworked. Some of the changes seemed so silly and childish.
Equipment Safety Quiz
Equipment Safety Quiz