As a general contractor, although you are not directly liable for on-site accidents caused by subcontractors, such mishaps will cost you time and money. It’s therefore in your interest to vet the safety practices of your subcontractors as carefully as possible when building your team for a project.

How many times do we seeconstruction workersin potentially dangerous situations? How many times do we pass a job site and see a worker in an unprotected trench?

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has been around for what seems like forever, protecting workers’ rights to a safe and accident-free workplace.

Workplace safety: there’s no argument anywhere that it’s not crucially important. Not all workplaces are alike, however; each work sector has different dangers and safety requirements. One line of work that has perhaps some of the most stringent safety requirements is the construction sector; due to the very nature of what the job entails, safety requirements for construction crews are often far and above any other.

Appropriate signage is sometimes one of the most overlooked aspects of creating a safe work environment. It sounds simple enough, but too many employers don’t fully recognize the impact they can have and their importance to workers. After all, you can never do too much to promote asafe workplace culture.

It’s official: architectural design isgoing green. They’re not the only industry to do so.

Many of us have heard of asbestos in contexts implying that it’s quite dangerous. Even so, most people don’t know what asbestos actually is and wouldn’t be able to recognize it on-sight.

Out of4,674 private sector fatalitiesin 2017, 20.7% of those fatalities came from the construction industry. In other words, construction workers alone account for one in five worker deaths.

When it comes to keeping your construction site safe, you have to do more than just comply withOSHA standards. You have to be prepared to go the extra mile to prevent problems – and if problems do arise, you have to go the extra mile to address them.

Playing with electricity is a risky proposition. But in an industry like construction, where electrical hazards are part of daily operations, electrical hazards have a much higher chance of turning into fatal accidents.