Walk onto almost any construction site and you’ll see it immediately: hard hats required, high-visibility vests mandatory, fall protection zones, equipment exclusion areas, lockout/tagout procedures, confined space warnings, emergency muster points. Safety signage is everywhere. And yet, in many cases, it fades into the background.

On any given day at a major construction site, hundreds of workers from dozens of different companies move through a maze of steel, scaffolding, and uncertainty. Some are long-term employees of the general contractor. Others are subcontractors: welders, electricians, framers, concrete finishers, working under a different company name, often for just a few days or weeks. But in the event of an emergency (a gas leak, a structural collapse, or a sudden weather threat), who gets

C ompany Urges Contractors to “Flatten” Their Alert Hierarchies So Workers Get Life-Saving Warnings First Safety Systems Management , a leader in wireless emergency notification systems for construction and industrial sites, today released a statement urging contractors to rethink the way emergency alerts are routed through job site hierarchies.

On any given day at a major construction site, hundreds of workers from dozens of different companies move through a maze of steel, scaffolding, and uncertainty. Some are long-term employees of the general contractor. Others are subcontractors: welders, electricians, framers, concrete finishers, working under a different company name, often for just a few days or weeks. But in the event of an emergency (a gas leak, a structural collapse, or a sudden weather threat), who gets

Cory Sherman, Founder and CEO of Safety Systems Management (SSM), announced that the company's proprietary wireless emergency notification systems are now ideally suited to the challenges of multi-level builds. Emergencies on construction sites can strike without warning: severe storms, hazardous spills, active shooter threats, or extreme heat events. In these critical moments, every second counts. Yet on vertical projects (such as high-rises, tunnels, and multi-floor struct

In this episode of Veterans Business Radio, Lee Kantor interviews Cory and Kyle Sherman of Safety Systems Management. They discuss their...