At Associated Training Services, we offer all the necessary certifications and training programs to ensure your employees understand the importance of job site safety.
heavy equipment safety is something that we care a great deal about here at Associated Training Services. If you have been in and around heavy equipment for a while, chances are you will have seen a few accidents. Accidents happen,…
We decided to follow up yesterday's article with a few more tractor safety pointers. Yesterday, we focused on ROPS as a means of protecting rollovers and we looked at the importance of surveying the work place before operating a tractor.…
Did you know that the humble tractor is involved in over 800 fatal accidents on United States farms each year? The number of tractor related injuries is even more staggering, 9,000. For a relatively simple piece of heavy equipment to…
We have discussed heavy equipment safety quite frequently on this blog. Each article relating to heavy equipment safety was focused on guidelines for different types of equipment and general workplace safety. Today's heavy equipment safety question is a little different.…
When it comes to grader safety, most of the guidelines fall clearly into the category of commonsense. All the same, accidents do happen because people forget the guidelines or do not feel that they are in danger. It is just…
It is worth reminding yourself every once in a while that what has been learned about heavy equipment safety has come from the painful consequences of other peoples' mistakes. There was a time that construction was an extremely dangerous occupation.…
What do hardhats have to do with heavy equipment safety? When you are in the vehicle, nothing really, hardhats have a lot more to do with workplace safety than heavy equipment safety. If you are in a covered vehicle a…
Why is having three points of contact so important for heavy equipment safety? The most common accidents on worksites are from stupid things that just happen. People slip on stairs, people trip getting out of vehicles. People fall out of…
It is a fact that accidents happen and no matter how conscientious you are about heavy equipment safety, nothing will change that. What people can change is the way that they approach heavy equipment safety. Heavy equipment safety is not…
One of the things that we really try to stress here at Associated Training Services is heavy equipment safety. The amount of workplace accidents in the United States is alarmingly high. We firmly believe that all accidents are avoidable and…