From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
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Special challenges in construction and maintenance
From the course: Occupational Safety and Health: Slips, Trips, and Falls
Special challenges in construction and maintenance
- Slip and trip fall hazards can be found everywhere, in any industry, at work and at home. This course is meant to be a general course that covers the hazards that are common to all of these situations. This means that your particular workplace could have its own unique hazards that require additional consideration, maybe additional training. I did want to take a minute, though, to call out the construction industry. Not just because that's my industry, but because it really does present a unique set of challenges that are worth acknowledging here before we move on. Construction sites are really different from fixed sites, because they're always changing. It's the nature of the work. We're building something that doesn't exist. The site can literally change every single day or even hour to hour. Now the industry deals with this by providing additional site-specific and task-specific training. And since the safety…
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