More articles by Lanny Berke

Underwriters Laboratories' portable-generator standard, UL 2201, doesn’t go far enough to protect users from carbon monoxide, fire, and shock hazards.

Many of the falls documented each year happen through skylights that should have been covered or protected by a railing or strong screen.

Automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) are easy to use, even for the untrained, and can save lives and reduce brain and heart damage.

Safety showers and eyewash stations must have an adequate water supply, be easily visible and accessible, be properly maintained, and protect workers from secondary hazards like slipping or electric shock.

A dock leveler's malfunction went unaddressed until it injured a worker.

When a concrete boom collapsed on the job, the contractor was irked at the inconvenience, but grateful no one had been hurt

Many years ago, a woman I knew opened her front door to find the foreman of the road-paving crew bearing a message

Readers occasionally contact me in response to these columns. I recently corresponded with Michael Fischer of the Kellen Co. about the window-screen problem.

Machine guarding protects people from injury during a machine’s normal operation. There are four basic approaches to machine guarding: barrier guards, guarding devices, guarding by location, and warnings.

A fire this January at a Las Vegas hotel, the Monte Carlo, should have spurred other hotels in the city to review their fire-safety provisions.