The American Ladder Institute (ALI), the developer of safety standards for the U.S. ladder industry, has launched its 2026 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, continuing a multi-year effort ...

Ladders are essential tools on a variety of job sites, easy to obtain and simple to use. As fatal injury and rule violation data show, however, their safe use is hardly guaranteed. Help is now ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. On April 14, 2011, United Steelworkers (USW) member ...

Ladder-related incidents led to more than 150 worker fatalities and more than 20,000 nonfatal injuries in 2015, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Ladders have ranked seventh on OSHA’s ...

Employers may get a reprieve from a deadline that will require them to install additional safety systems on certain ladders on their worksites within 10 years. A new ...

Why focus on ladder safety? Because every year over 100 people die from ladder-related accidents and thousands more are injured. And most of these accidents are preventable. The goals of ladder safety ...

Washington – Employers of fruit pickers and landscapers have new resources – in both English and Spanish – to help keep workers safe on and near tripod orchard ladders. An OSHA fact sheet and ...

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 ...

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.