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OSHA sets the standards for The Control of Hazardous Energy, or Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), in 29 CFR 1910.147. This regulation puts into place safety procedures in the workplace to ensure that dangerous or hazardous machinery is properly shut down. In addition, this machinery cannot be restarted prior to servicing or maintenance work. This requires that the […]

Many professionals in the building industry view demolition contractors as key partners in tearing down old buildings and clearing sites to make way for new construction. However, another crucial operation that demolition contractors perform is disaster response, especially natural disaster response. Increasingly, cities and other municipalities are encouraging disaster response teams to partner with demolition […]

WHAT IS A DIVERSION RATE? When you are thinking about demolition, one of the biggest concerns you may have is the city- mandated diversion rate. What this means is that a certain percentage of the material that a demolition company removes from a job-site must be recycled in some way, rather than simply buried in […]