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Jobsite safety: Hazard awareness

Jobsite safety: Hazard awareness

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Jobsite safety: Hazard awareness

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- Let's continue the discussion on construction safety issues as it relates to managing work. In the last video, I talked about improving safety, quality and productivity by starting out with ensuring that our craft workers have the proper training, training that's specific to the operations they'll perform for your company, on your job sites, using the specific tools and equipment that you'll expect them to use. I also mentioned that one of the issues that we have with training in the construction industry is the fact that our job site conditions are extremely variable and that our sites are very unique work environments because the people working there all work for many different companies, different employers, and they're working next to or sometimes even on top of one another. Now this is a complex issue that presents several challenges. That training I talked about in the last video is only going to go so far in…

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