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A company can only call itself committed to safety, above all else, if it takes concrete steps to affirm that commitment. At Thomas Industrial Coatings, becoming the largest owner of Safespan’s platforms systems, outside of the manufacturer, is one of those steps we’ve taken.

Safespan is a temporary platform system that uses cables, fastened at uniform intervals, to suspend a working area directly beneath a bridge. The steel decking can be customized to fit a specific project’s needs, and allows for working on multiple spans at once. The result is a working surface that offers safe, stable footing and completely shields the area below from falling debris.

Across much of the United States warm temperatures are already a distant memory. Weekly Toolbox Talks and daily safety meetings have long moved on from discussing the dangers of heatstroke, dehydration and severe sunburn.  Now toolbox topics are focusing on the perils of winter work outdoors (or perhaps have for some time now in the […]

Waiting until the first signs of corrosion appear on your storage tank could mean compromising both the tank and the valuable materials it contains. If rust appears beneath a tank’s protective coating, full-scale abrasive blasting will likely be called for. That’s why scheduling a tank painting with a reputable contractor, before the first sign of […]

Sometimes the fun of a job lies in the challenge, the kind of job where you get to show off a little versatility to go along with your expertise. We’ve completed numerous ship-painting jobs at Thomas Industrial Coatings, along with just about any other vessel worthy of a good marine coating, but the Motor Vessel […]

The Engineering News-Record recently released its annual list of the Top 600 Specialty Contractors, ranked according to revenue. Every year, ENR conducts a survey of large subcontractors based in the U.S. in order to “bring structure to an otherwise huge and chaotic industry.” Thomas Industrial Coatings was once again named among these ENR top specialty […]

Andrew Everding, safety coordinator for Thomas Industrial Coatings, takes questions on his day-to-day, the job-site safety culture at Thomas and the famous “Safety Truck.”