07/31/2017

Window-Washing Group Offers New Safety Guide

Safety insights passively reiterate the benefits organizations provide their members

Whether hanging off the side of a building or using a powerful chemical, professional window cleaners have a lot of safety concerns on the job.

And when things go wrong, they can go wrong dramatically. Earlier this year in Hawaii, for example, a newly minted window washer starting his first day on the job lost consciousness while hanging from the side of a skyscraper. His coworkers, attempting to keep the man up, were struggling with exhaustion themselves. To recover the men, firefighters had to break an eighth-story window.

With such incidents in mind, the International Window Cleaning Association has published a new online safety guide to explain the risks of professional window cleaning and provide guidance for staying safe on the job.

Please click here to read the complete article on Associations Now.