NECA Safety Round Up
Throughout this monthly series, the NECA Risk Management Executive Directors of Safety will discuss specific topics within electrical construction safety. They'll welcome guests onto the podcast to talk about safety issues and obstacles the industry is facing. Prepare to learn about laws and policies that spread into everything from FLSA, Immigration, FACTA, Title VII, ADA and FMLA to Workers Comp, Leaves and Return-to-Work procedure. Other episodes revolve around protective cover, safety leadership, OSHA and Safety training practices, JSAs, HSAs and job briefings as well as incident investigation.
NECA Safety Round Up
#35: Barry Miller
In this edition of the NECA Safety Round Up Podcast, Wes Wheeler discusses the research and new technologies around the new construction helmets available today with Barry Miller, PhD., MBA, Director of Outreach and Business Development, Virgina Tech Helmet Lab. By researching the various manufacturers in the market today, they developed tests to see how each brand responded to various helmet impacts and now has released those findings for industry to review. For more information on the research and testing, visit the Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings pages on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/virginia-tech-helmet-ratings/posts/?feedView=all
Virginia Tech Helmet Ratings - Construction helmets have been tested to evaluate their ability to reduce concussion and skull fracture risk in severe but survivable falls. https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/construction-helmet-ratings.html
For more information, please reach out to Barry Miller at Bmiller21@vt.edu