Safe climbing requires ongoing vigilance. Here are five things to pay attention to before, during and after using a ladder.

Ladders have always been a common tool—but under today’s safety standards, they come with new responsibilities. With OSHA’s update to Subpart D, a major change is reshaping how organizations must ...

A new survey, 2024 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, from the American Ladder Institute, found that from 2020 to 2024 there was 21% decrease in ladder related accidents that resulted in ...

The American Ladder Institute (ALI), the developer of safety standards for the U.S. ladder industry, has launched its 2026 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, continuing a multi-year effort ...

Springtime is prime time for projects around the house, and some of them involve the use of a ladder of one kind or another.But as any do-it-yourselfer can tell you, a lapse in basic ladder safety ...

Citations for ladder safety violations were No. 3 on OSHA’s list of most cited for 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021, having risen from No. 5 in 2020 and No. 6 in 2019. OSHA’s ladder safety requirements are ...

*This post may contain affiliate links and I’ll earn a commission if you shop through them. You can read my full disclosure here. Using a ladder may seem pretty straightforward but these useful tools ...