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A wheel loader is highly maneuverable and can move quickly around a job site. Its speed and versatility means workers and other machines ...

This British safety poster reminds us not to leave tools or construction supplies laying around on the job site - especially on scaffolds...

Scaffolds cause many accidents, often because workers don't understand how to set them up and use them correctly. Here are some tips to h...

Welcome to Toolbox Tuesday, VISTA's new weekly safety tip. Our first topic is preventing a common type of fall on work sites.

In most mines, inadequate training tends to be invisible, until it is revealed in operational challenges. It then gets fixed in a reactiv...

During the early to mid-20th century, one of the primary ways safety messages were communicated to workers was via safety posters. We've ...

One of our pet peeves is driving past residential construction or roofing jobs where crews are working without PPE or any form of fall pr...

Web-based mine training has matured to the point where it offers mines a compelling, affordable way to deliver basic training to new hire...

As more fleets are being equipped with telematics technology, a clear picture is emerging of the ways in which it can help to improve saf...

Equipment World has published an excellent article that explains why hydrostatic drives are now the dominant type of drive train for craw...

Now that cost-cutting is the norm in the mining industry, you need to take a fresh look at all aspects of your operations for ways to imp...

VISTA Training is launching a new e-newsletter, Safety Update. Our goal in creating this publication is to keep you up-to-date on the lat...

When you move beyond the major industrialized countries, which have well-established and enforced safety regulations, almost anything goe...

To help you understand the benefits of our innovative Silver Series of web-based training programs, we've made 2 lessons of one of them a...

This UK commercial building project is enough to give any regulatory inspector heart failure. It's literally a disaster waiting to happen...

In light of today’s unstable mine commodity market and current labor trends, it’s time for mines to rethink training and labor development.

How are you approaching on-site training at your mine? If you rely on a training firm to come on-site, train and then leave every time yo...

We recently relaunched the VISTA website home page, with a goal of helping you find the training tools and resources you need faster and ...

If you’re not currently using a learning management system to manage your company’s training programs, you’re missing out on some signifi...

In well-trained hands, a crawler excavator can be amazingly productive. But with a less-experienced operator behind the controls, it can ...