Safway Group Offers Free Scaffold Safety Training
Limited Time No Cost Offer Available Online Only Through May 31, 2015
WAUKESHA, Wis. — In honor of Safety Week, Safway Group is offering free Systems™ and Sectional Scaffold safety training for users and erectors throughout the month of May 2015. Developed for both those who perform work while on a scaffold as well as erectors, this online training includes chapter quizzes and a final exam. Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion with a score of 85 percent or higher, which can be applied to the Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) requirement for training. To learn more, click here.
“At Safway, safety is our No. 1 value,” said Paul Amedee, vice president of Environmental Health and Safety for Safway. “Over the last year, we reduced our incident rate by 22 percent. But we’re committed to continuous safety improvement both within our company and throughout our industry. This is why we’re offering our Systems and Sectional Scaffold training online for free. It makes it so easy for everyone, who works with or on our equipment, to take this safety training.”
Safway is the only company in the industry with its own Training University and has trained more than 40,000 of our own employees and over 40,000 of our clients. Additionally, all Safway training is designed in compliance with OSHA regulations. “With close to 80 years of scaffolding experience, we offer superior training,” added Amedee.
Safway became an alliance partner with The Construction Industry Safety Initiative and the Incident Injury-Free Executive Forum, which together includes over 40 national and global construction firms, to inspire everyone in the industry to be leaders in safety during Safety Week, May 3 – 9, 2015. Additionally, Safway will continue to partner with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, OSHA and The Center for Construction Research and Training on the second annual national initiative to prevent falls, the leading cause of work-related injury and deaths.
About Safway Group
With more than 95 locations in the U.S. and Canada and a growing system of distributors worldwide, Safway Group companies deliver efficient, high-performance multiservice solutions – THE SMART WAY™ – by collaborating, communicating and sharing resources. Offering experience and expertise in access, scaffolding, insulation, fireproofing, surface preparation and coatings, Safway Group companies include CL Coatings; Industrial Coatings & Fireproofing (ICF); Redi Solutions; Safway Atlantic; Safway Services; Safway Services Canada; S&E Bridge & Scaffold; and Swing Staging. With the largest engineering staff, an exclusive project management system, award-winning safety excellence and a full line of products and services, Safway Group companies design and implement innovative, quality solutions at the lowest installed cost for projects of any size and scope. Safway has been an industry leader since 1936. Safway Group companies serve the petrochemical, oil and gas, power, refining, marine, manufacturing, transportation and commercial construction industries worldwide. For more information about Safway Group’s services and capabilities, visit: www.safwaygroup.com.
