Roofing contractors work at dangerous heights, often on pitched surfaces and in variable weather. Without proper fall protection, one misstep can lead to a catastrophic injury or fatality. Falls are the leading cause of death in construction, and roofers face this risk daily. Injuries may include: - Broken [...]
Why Your Roofing Industry Clients Need Workers’ Compensation While working in the roofing industry, your clients may encounter many different types of injury risks. These include: Falls from roofs, scaffolding, or other heights, which can result in injuries like broken bones, traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), and spinal cord [...]
Roofing Industry – Laceration Injuries In the roofing industry, your clients may often use tools and materials like saws, nail guns, and drills. While these tools help them perform their work, they also put your roofing industry workers at an increased risk of lacerations. Lacerations are injuries that [...]
Roofing Industry – Weather-Related Risks While your roofing industry clients may practice equipment safety and work to avoid common roofing hazards, there’s one thing they can’t always control: the weather! While working to build or repair roofs, workers in the roofing industry face many weather-related risks, from both [...]
Roofing Industry – Puncture Wounds While at work, roofing industry employees frequently use sharp tools and equipment, including nails and nail guns. While nails play a big role in construction and repairing roofs, they also put roofing industry workers at increased risk of dangerous puncture wounds. Puncture wounds [...]
Roofing Industry – Traumatic Brain Injury In the roofing industry, workers frequently climb to high heights and use heavy tools. This puts them at an increased risk of traumatic brain injuries, a type of serious—and often fatal—head injury. A traumatic brain injury, or TBI, occurs when someone receives [...]
Roofing Industry – Traumatic Brain Injuries Since workers in the roofing industry frequently use heavy equipment and materials and perform work at high heights, they are particularly susceptible to traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs. TBIs occur when someone experiences a sudden, violent hit to the head. In the [...]
Roofing Industry – Heat Exposure Even when the weather is hot, people still need assistance with repairing the roofs of their homes, office buildings, and other areas—which means that roofers are often out working in very hot conditions. In warm and hot weather, roofers are at an increased [...]
Roofing Industry – Slip and Fall Injury Risk For many workers in the roofing industry, high heights are part of the job! Working with roofs and roofing-related home repairs often requires roofers to experience heights or one, two, or three stories when working with residential homes, or even [...]
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