Construction
safety is everyone’s responsibility. The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has numerous regulations to assist residential
construction employers and employees in providing safe and healthful
workplaces. So, the onus is on all employers to take proactive steps to
assess risks to protect their workers. Employers have to plan and put in
place an occupational safety and health plan to prevent accidents on
work sites.
safety is everyone’s responsibility. The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has numerous regulations to assist residential
construction employers and employees in providing safe and healthful
workplaces. So, the onus is on all employers to take proactive steps to
assess risks to protect their workers. Employers have to plan and put in
place an occupational safety and health plan to prevent accidents on
work sites.
Construction work is a high-risk business, so risk assessments and
safety statements keep safety at work uppermost in everyone’s mind. To
highlight this point, out of 4,379 worker fatalities in private
industry for calendar year 2015, 937 or 21.4% were in construction,
that is, one in five worker deaths last year were in construction. The
leading causes of private sector worker deaths (excluding highway
collisions) in the construction industry were falls, followed by struck
by object, electrocution, and caught-in/between. These "Fatal Four" were
responsible for more than half (64.2%) the construction worker deaths
in 2015. By focusing on risk assessment, if construction companies
eliminated these Fatal Four, it would save 602 workers' lives in America
every year.
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