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Safety Tips: How to Stay Safe Around Floor Openings
Falls from floor openings are a major risk on construction sites—but they're also preventable. The PRST team is sharing four essential safety tips to make sure every step is secure.
Safety Tips: Step Up Safely—Ladder Best Practices
Ladders might look harmless, but they're one of the most common causes of workplace injuries. The PRST team is sharing four essential ladder safety tips to help you work confidently and safely at any height.
Safety Tips: Smart Practices for Hand Tool Safety
Of all the equipment on the job, the most common hand tools are often the most overlooked—and the most misused. To keep yourself and your team safe, revisiting the basic rules for hand tool use can prevent common accidents. To keep the basics top of mind, here are four essential hand tool safety tips from the PRST team.
Don’t sit on the bench: How temporary staffing bridges the gaps in the trades
Every tradesperson knows the cycle: busy projects followed by sudden slowdowns. Learn how temporary staffing can help bridge those gaps and protect your livelihood.
Safety Tips: Crane Safety and Power Line Awareness
Crane work is always high-risk and energized overhead power lines make it even more dangerous. To help you and your crew stay safe and maintain proper clearances, the PRST team is sharing four essential crane safety tips.
Safety Tips: The Real Cost of Relying on Energy Drinks
Whether you’re starting an early shift or pushing through the last hours, it’s easy to reach for an energy drink for that extra boost. But with far higher caffeine and stimulant levels than coffee, overuse can carry serious health risks—especially for those in physically demanding trades.
Safety Tips: Don’t let Back Injuries Slow You Down
Back injuries are among the most common and costly injuries on the jobsite, often occurring during routine tasks. To help reduce the risk, the PRST team has four essential tips every tradesperson should follow to protect their back on the job.
Safety Tips: Preventing falls, a major threat to every trades jobsite
Working from heights poses serious safety risks—not just for the person up high, but for everyone nearby. To help reduce risks and protect you and your team, the PRST team has four must-know tips for staying safe when working from heights.
Safety Tips: Beat the heat and protect yourself from heat illness
During hot summer months, especially for tradespeople working outdoors, taking precautions is crucial to prevent heat-related illnesses. The PRST team shares four essential tips for staying cool, alert, and safe on the job.
Safety Tips: The ABCs of Fire Extinguishers You Need to Know
Just like every job calls for the right tool, every fire demands the right extinguisher. To make sure you’re always ready for any fire emergency, the PRST team put together four must-know tips for choosing and handling the right extinguisher on the job.
PRST Launched New and Improved Respect the Craft Program
PeopleReady Skilled Trades (PRST) is excited to announce new components of our Respect the Craft™ program. Beyond showing our tradespeople the respect they deserve, this program helps us engage, hire and retain skilled workers who are essential to bringing projects to life across the U.S. Learn more about the new program
Safety Tips: Nail Gun Do’s and Don’ts for Safer Workdays
Nail guns are powerful tools, but they also come with serious safety risks if not used properly. Understanding how to operate nail guns with care is essential to preventing injuries on the job. To help you stay safe while using nail guns, the PRST team is sharing four key tips to keep in mind during your day-to-day work.
Safety Tips: Staying Safe When Working Around Electricity
When using portable electric tools it’s important to take the right precautions to protect yourself from electric shock. To help keep you safe, here are four essential tips from the PRST team to reduce your risk of electric shock on the job.
Safety Tips: How to Prevent Eye Injuries on the Job
Since the earliest days of labor, it has remained an essential priority on the job site. The PRST team breaks down four common eye hazards to watch out for and how the right gear can keep your vision safe.
PeopleReady Skilled Trades is a specialized division of PeopleReady, a TrueBlue company (NYSE: TBI). Since 1987, we have connected tradespeople and work across a wide range of trades, including carpentry, electrical, plumbing, welding, solar installations and more. Whether you need a single tradesperson or require a coordinated effort to dispatch skilled workers across multiple projects, we ensure you have the right people with the right tools, on-site and on time.
