NIOSH Recommendations on Keeping Excavation Workers Safe

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

GLENDALE -- The first of a series of publications by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) designed to offer practical ways to prevent occupational injuries and deaths focuses on workers operating on or near hydraulic excavators and backhoe loaders.The publication is one of two that inaugurate the "Workplace Solutions" series just announced by NIOSH. The other publication deals with rock falls in mines.The institute noted that excavation workers are at risk from bein

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