Safety Tips by Cotney
Avoiding Skin Cancer Caused by Sun Exposure
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Tips for roofers to avoid skin cancer and warning signs to look for. Roofers are as likely as anyone on earth to develop skin cancer due to sun exposure. While light sun exposure can help us absorb essential vitamin D, many of the sun’s effects ...
Two Types of Workplace Stress
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Stress can be a great motivator on a job site. Sometimes it is positive stress and sometimes it is negative stress. How employees feel at work affects their performance and ability to work safely. The level of stress they experience on the job significantly ...
Recordable Injuries: Why Employees Should Care
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Why reporting an injury is crucial to the wellbeing of your business and how to avoid recordable injuries by taking action quickly. While some work-related injuries may seem pretty insignificant, all work injuries should be reported, no matter how small. Recording them protects you ...
Do it the Right Way, Not the Easy Way
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Keep your employees safe by going the extra mile to make sure things are done correctly. Roofing contractors should take care to do business the right way, not the easy way. Doing so will keep your workers safe from injuries on the job. ...
Carbon Monoxide Safety
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Contractors must be cognizant of the carbon monoxide risks that can come with a residential reroofing project The kind of story no roofer wants to hear is like the one about the woman in Oklahoma whose house filled with toxic carbon monoxide following roof ...
Four Entry Points for Hazardous Chemicals
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Construction site employees need to understand the chemicals they may encounter at the worksite and the amount of exposure they might encounter. There are chemicals present at virtually every worksite. Many of those chemicals are hazardous to humans, depending on the exposure. Know the potential ...
Battling Complacency on the Job Site
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Complacency affects more than the individual worker. It affects your organization. Complacency on the job site has consequences. What is complacency? According to dictionary.com, it is a feeling of “quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect or the like.” ...
OSHA Offers Workers’ Rights Cards in Spanish
By Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Hispanic construction workers are hard to reach with information about worker rights and safety due to a language barrier. Latinos are the fastest-growing population in the construction industry but sometimes do not understand their rights on the job or how to protect themselves against injuries. The ...
Why Toolbox Talks Are Essential
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. Keep safety issues at the forefront of workers’ minds and increase awareness of hazards. Safety training should be an ongoing practice at construction sites. However, while formal OSHA instruction is critical for a secure worksite, continuous reminders are also essential. You can communicate those ...
PPE for Roofers
By Trent Cotney, Cotney Attorneys & Consultants. There are numerous pieces of equipment roofers use that require proper protection to avoid injury. It’s important to provide the proper safety equipment to employees and make sure they are using it. It is key to a safe workplace. Let’s break down the ...
