{"id":299,"date":"2012-11-30T17:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2012-11-30T17:58:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T17:58:23","slug":"revised-6-minute-safety-short-safely-removing-snow-from-the-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/revised-6-minute-safety-short-safely-removing-snow-from-the-roof\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised 6-Minute Safety Short &#8211; Safely Removing Snow from the Roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to OSHA, over the past ten years, sixteen employees suffered serious or fatal injuries while clearing snow from roofs.\u00a0 Causes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>employees\u00a0sliding off the roof and striking the ground with their heads<\/li>\n<li>a ladder that slipped out from under the employee causing the employee to strike his head on both the ladder and the concrete driveway<\/li>\n<li>an employee who lost footing on the roof and was impaled on scaffolding on a construction site<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our <em>Safely Removing Snow From the Roof<\/em> safety short reinforces some common sense guidance, such as using snow rakes but being careful to not be buried in an avalanche, keeping ten feet between electrical lines and tools, ladders and equipment and training employees in appropriate fall protection methods.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to OSHA, over the past ten years, sixteen employees suffered serious or fatal injuries while clearing snow from roofs.\u00a0 Causes include: employees\u00a0sliding off the roof and striking the ground with their heads a ladder that slipped out from under the employee causing the employee to strike his head on both the ladder and the concrete driveway an employee who<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[181,180],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-businessinurance","tag-removing-snow-from-the-roof","tag-safety-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mvragency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}