If you drive outside the city limits of Chicago, you will no doubt be amazed at how quickly the landscape transforms from urban to rural. In fact, you may not realize that we have a thriving agricultural industry here in Illinois with farmers growing all kinds of...
Month: June 2013
Chicagoland construction sites pause for fall prevention training
If you drive by a residential or commercial construction site, you will undoubtedly see everything from bulldozers and dump trucks to cement mixers and tool belts. You will also more than likely see multiple ladders or an intricate system of scaffolding. What you may...
Answers sought after fatal accident at site of new NFL stadium
While we prefer to think that serious construction accidents are largely a thing of the past due to improvements in safety equipment and a greater overall awareness of workplace dangers, this simply isn't the case. In fact, hundreds of thousands of hard working men...
Study highlights how fatigue can jeopardize worker safety
Even though we tend to think of most jobs as being largely stationary, meaning workers essentially stay in the same place, this is far from the case. Every day, thousands of people across Illinois operate trucks and other heavy machinery that takes them from point A...