OSHA’s ladder safety requirements are arguably the easiest to comply with. Yet failure here makes it near the top of OSHA’s “frequent flyer” list every year. Failure here is also responsible for a ...

The American Ladder Institute marks 10 years of its safety campaign with free turnkey resources and webinars for EHS managers. The American Ladder Institute is offering free online ladder safety ...

Falls from portable ladders (step, straight, combination and extension) are one of the leading causes of workplace injuries and fatalities. Appropriate precautions can reduce the risk significantly.

If you open 29CFR 1926 and turn to Subpart X, you will see the fifth subpart is 1926.1060. This provides the training requirements for stairways and ladders. “Wait,” you might say. “My grandson is ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, ladder deaths accounted for 161 on-the-job fatalities in 2020, the most recent year for which statistics are available. That same year, there were ...

What do you do about a problem that is never going away? I think you have to design around it. As I travel around the country speaking about ladder safety, I have the opportunity to meet with groups ...

A new survey, 2024 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, from the American Ladder Institute, found that from 2020 to 2024 there was 21% decrease in ladder related accidents that resulted in ...

The safety industry is in flux as of May 2026, with Veriforce’s SafeLand Basic Orientation 7.0 now the standard for site entry and NASP refining its certification prerequisites to better align with ...