Workplace Safety

CDMCS 5th Annual Leadership in Safety Awards NOMINATION GUIDLINES CDMCS recognizes outstanding safety leadership in the dredging and marine construction industry by making four awards each year: one for a company, one for a private sector individual, one for a government individual, and one for USACE district and one for a dredge crew or team. […]

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The following presentation was prepared by the NTSB.  The following points are excerpted from the full report, available here. What We Found: Pipeline Hazard Training Waymon Boyd crew lacked function-specific pipeline safety training and emergency procedures that could have prepared them to react quicker and more effectively to the pipeline strike. Pipeline Hazard Training Waymon […]

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USAIG and the Unmanned Safety Institute (USI) have teamed up to enhance the utility of safety benefits made available to all Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) policyholders. The insurer’s Performance Vector Unmanned initiative began in 2016 by affording each UAS policyholder the opportunity to obtain a package of safety-focused services during each policy year of coverage. […]

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Like other sectors of the maritime industry, dredging is considered “essential” by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the division of the Department of Homeland Security tasked with identifying critical infrastructure and essential workers during the response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. That means, even during the fight to slow […]

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