A ladder in good condition will easily hold your weight and a lot more. If a ladder is dented, bent, cracked, or split, you don’t know how much weight it will hold. That's why it is so important to ...

The American Ladder Institute (ALI) is conducting its 2026 Ladder Safety Training and Citations Survey, the fifth iteration ...

The safest way to design a product is to design out the dangers. If it’s impossible to design out all of the dangers, then you guard against those dangers. Think about the products you use every day.

Falls from portable ladders (step, straight, combination and extension) are one of the leading causes of workplace injuries and fatalities. Appropriate precautions can reduce the risk significantly.

The American Ladder Institute, a not-for-profit association of ladder industry leaders dedicated to promoting safe ladder use, has declared March 2017 as National Ladder Safety Month. EHS Today sat ...

Every year more than 100 people die in ladder-related accidents, and thousands suffer disabling injuries, according to the American Ladder Institute. Every time you climb a ladder, you risk becoming ...

Always set your ladder on a solid, level surface. For a stepladder, make sure the spreader locks are fully extended and ...