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Unionized Construction Firms See Fewer Costly, Serious Injuries

Construction Superintendent Magazine

MIAMI, Fla. -- A new study shows construction firms that hire union workers have fewer work injuries requiring workers’ compensation payments for time away from work.

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Episode 12: Risk Assessment: Why a Safety SME Initiative Is a Gamechanger

Safety Services Company

Risk assessments are absolutely integral to implementing safety at the workplace. In this episode, Darrin Anderson , Environmental Health, Safety, and Security Manager at Nesher Pharmaceuticals (USA) LLC , shares his advice for building highly effective risk identification assessments and procedures. Let’s dive right in!

Risk 101
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Wellness is for builders, not just for buildings

BD+C

Construction work is demanding—both physically and mentally—and the likelihood of injury or disability is higher than other sectors. As an industry, we have done an excellent job at emphasizing and improving site safety so that everyone goes home safe every day. But what about going home healthy? .

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Older, Not Wiser? Workplace Fatalities Highest Amongst Older Generation

FDR Safety

AFLCIO : These are challenging times for working people and their unions, and the prospects for worker safety and health protections are uncertain. What is clear, however, is that the toll of workplace injury, illness and death remains too high, and too many workers remain at serious risk. There is much more work to be done.

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Alberta Injury Rates 10 Times Higher Than Reported

Safety Services Company

A fact sheet recently released by the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan public policy re search institute in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, states that the Alberta Government is understating the numbers of workplace injuries that occur each year.

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Sliding-scale proposal for civil damages resulting from construction fatalities, injuries draws ire of trades

BD+C

A New York City Council proposal that would mandate a sliding-scale system be used when awarding civil damages for construction-related injuries or fatalities has drawn fire from two prominent unions.

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New York Construction Worker Safety Update

Construction Equipment

The law is in response to the more than 18 percent increase in injuries on the city's construction sites in fiscal year 2017, from 526 to 622. The new 1447-C bill covers the city's 185,000+ construction workers, union and nonunion. This year alone, 8 NYC construction workers have died on jobsites - 39 deaths since 2014.