 Highway Construction: A Classic Site for Safety Gear It’s spring. The fruit trees are full of white and pink blossoms, the birds are building nests... and your favorite pothole just tried to swallow your car on your way to work this morning. Well, that’s what it’s like in Pittsburgh, always a runner-up in any “Pothole Capital” contest. A Pittsburgh driver can find more road repair and construction sites than Pittsburgh bees can find flowers.
Chances are, you’ll meet with highway construction, no matter where you live. Unfortunately, along with this explosion of construction come dangers for the men and women who will be doing this work along busy roads and in hazardous situations. Every year, highway construction workers are injured, even killed on the job. If you work in construction, you already know this. To help protect your employees in these hazardous work zones, build a bridge to safety with MSA. We have the best in hardhats, eyewear, hearing protection, welding protection, fall protection, and certainly respirators, from disposable dust respirators to air-line respirators and SCBA and instruments for confined spaces. Contact your distributor or go online to www.MSAnet.com to see the variety of protection we offer. Or, call us at 1-800-MSA-2222 and ask for our construction catalog today.
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If
you live where the seasons REALLY change, you know what havoc winter
and the subsequent spring thaw can wreak on our aging highways and byways.
However, thanks to the 1998 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
(better known as “TEA 21”), our national Department of Transportation
now has 40% more revenue to spend on highway programs, including all
types of road and bridge repairs, through 2005.
