Articles Tagged with ''Construction Safety''

In an industry already in crisis—with rising jobsite deaths and injuries and now in a rush to start and complete economic stimulus projects worth many billions of dollars—where, ultimately, does responsibility for worker safety lie? Does it, as some argue, rest partly with individual workers, or should employers, project owners or even the government be held fully accountable when there is an accident on a construction site? READ AND COMMENT ONTHE DUELING VIEWPOINTS: Proposal: Accident Prevention Is Everyone's Responsibility Reply: Unrealistic Plan Poses Many Problems And Won't Do the Job Earlier this year, ENR published a Viewpoint titled, “We Need