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Minimize Incidents & Injuries at the Worksite

Construction Business Owner

The next largest industry sector was transportation and warehousing, which suffered 805 deaths in 2020. . . Workers miss at least four days of work annually costing 3.94% of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP). The construction industry had the largest amount of fatalities, with 1,008 in 2020.

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DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

Safety Services Company

Unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands you will probably be changing your clocks this weekend as Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins this Sunday March 8th at 2 A.M. Enforcing DST is the responsibility of the Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Federal Facilities – Implementation of Energy Savings Projects and Performance-Based Contracting for Energy Savings

Building Information Management

e) “United States” means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and associated territorial waters and airspace. (d) “agency” has the same meaning as in Executive Order 13514. (e)