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Extreme Heat: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety
Heat-related deaths and illness are preventable yet annually many people succumb to extreme heat. Historically, from 1979-2003, excessive heat exposure caused 8,015 deaths in the United States. During this period, more people in this country died from extreme heat than from hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes combined. In 2001, 300 deaths were caused by excessive heat exposure.
People suffer heat-related illness when their bodies are unable to compensate and properly cool themselves. The body normally cools itself by sweating. But under some conditions, sweating just isn't enough. In such cases, a person's body temperature rises rapidly. Very high body temperatures may damage the brain or other vital organs. Read more....
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NATE's June 2 webcast to highlight 100% tie-off
May 29, 2008 - In response to the high number of accidents and fatalities occurring in the past two months, the National Association of Tower Erectors will host a webcast entitled "Tailgate Talks," focusing on the association's top five
recommended safety topics.
The goal of the June 2, 2008, 12 Noon Eastern Time webcast is to remind crews to focus on what really matters - going home safely at the end of each day. NATE is taking this opportunity to proactively remind workers that the only acceptable way to do a job is to do it safely.
This presentation will stress the importance of 100% tie-off, and why safety has to be a dedicated commitment.
Originally planned for presentation to just NATE members, the association's directors decided that the message was too important and should be heard by everyone in the industry.
Don Doty, NATE Chairman of the Board of Directors and presenter, will encourage industry professionals to take action and play a lead proactive role in changing the way the industry operates.
During the webcast, Doty will present NATE's top five topics for safety professionals to discuss with their crews during daily tailgate meetings:
1. Potential hazards (weather, environmental hazards, tower corrosion or structural damage, electrical hazards, other hazards unique to the job at hand)
2. Pre-climb check of personal protective equipment
3. 100% tie-off is mandatory
4. Lock-out/tag-out procedures, and
5. What to do in an emergency
To view the live 20-minute webcast on June 2, click here and use the following password: 123456. For those people without access to a computer, dial (866) 699-3239. The event number is 669 182 347.
After June 2, the recorded presentation will be posted on the NATE website
Tower tech falls to his death in South Florida
May 22, 2008 - A worker employed by Structural Systems Technology, Inc. of McLean, Virginia fell to his death at 12:04 p.m. today north of Miami, Florida, according to a spokesman for Miami Dade Fire Rescue.
Darren Joe Reed had been performing maintenance work on the Channel 7 WSVN tower at 502 NW 207th St.
The area is called the antenna farm, where many broadcast companies maintain towers. The structures are landmark locations and can be seen while flying into Miami or Ft. Lauderdale airports, and are visible from I-95 and the Florida Turnpike.
The death was the seventh fatality this year of a worker falling from a communications structure.
A spokeswoman for the Fox affiliate said that the station did not have any additional information at this time.
Structural Systems Technology has been designing and constructing towers and related facilities worldwide for over 30 years.
On June 2, 1988, three SST workers were killed when the 2,000-foot Kirksville, MO television tower they were reinforcing collapsed. The KTVO-TV tower, owned at that time by Federal Broadcasting, was undergoing a structural upgrade and fell during calm weather as braces were being replaced.
A SST worker was injured on January 11, 2008, when a 2,000-foot TV tower collapsed in Redfield, Arkansas while a crew was reguying the structure.
*Tower safety news courtesy of Wireless estimator
