How to Help Save Your Workers from the Fatal Four in Construction

In the construction industry, your top resource is the manual labor of your workers. Without these hard-hat-wearing individuals, your business would fall apart. Unfortunately, the construction workplace is also one of the deadliest. In order to avoid the “Fatal Four” in construction, health and safety training geared at construction workers must be a part of your workers’ schedule. But how can you be sure that your OSHA compliance training is worth the effort?

Understanding the Fatal Four

The construction industry has historically been considered one of the most deadly due to a high rate of on-the-job deaths. According to OSHA, construction-related deaths accounted for 20.5% of the workplace fatalities in the private industry in 2014. A total of 874 workers died in the construction sector. Among these workplace fatalities, four specific causes were to blame for 58.1% of such deaths. These are the “Fatal Four:”

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