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Weekly Toolbox Talk: Slips, Trips and Falls
Slips, Trips and Falls (Fall Prevention)
We have all experienced slipping, tripping, stumbling or falling. Usually the only result is that you feel silly, embarrassed, and perhaps got a scrape or bruise. But falls kill 1,200 people at work a year. They are the biggest cause of accidental death in the workplace. More than 33,000 people are disabled every year from falling down stairs, while many more people receive other injuries like strains, sprains, and fractures.
Marek Austin Hosts Students from San Marcos ISD
Marek Austin recently hosted a group of 6 high school students from San Marcos ISD’s Advanced Construction Technology class.
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Sprains and Strains
Sprains and Strains
Sprains and strains continue to be one of the highest types of injuries within our company. By following a few simple rules, many of these injuries can be avoided or their severity greatly reduced. Medical evidence has shown that performing warm-up exercises before work and after breaks reduces strain and sprain type injuries.
These rules are:
How Immigration reform could bring an end to construction’s skilled worker shortage
The following was originally posted in Equipment World.
What’s “step one” in ending the skilled worker shortage currently plaguing construction companies across the U.S.? If you ask Stan Marek, it’s immigration reform.
Marek, the CEO of Houston-based Marek Construction, recently penned a fantastic blog post discussing the necessity of immigration reform to the construction industry’s future.
With more than 30 million men and women having immigrated to the U.S. between 1986 and 2006, Marek cites a study from the University of Texas that says at least 50 percent of all construction workers in the U.S. are undocumented.