From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
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The importance of safety technology
From the course: Construction Technology: Industry Snapshot
The importance of safety technology
- Safety, it's a topic people don't like to talk about, but we have to whenever we're talking about construction, and the technology industry has a lot to offer in making the construction job site significantly safer. Now deaths used to be commonplace on job sites. I mean five people died building the Empire State Building, 100 building Hoover Dam. This is unacceptable in modern times, both morally and financially. That's why I'm really excited about a lot of different safety tools that are coming out, both hardware and software, that allow us to have a much safer job site. I'll start with software. A big part of safety is making sure you follow proper protocol and that you actually have everybody trained. That's why applications like Safesite and iAuditor really help the average construction professional stay on track with their meetings, their toolbox talks, all of their daily logs and observations. But what's even more exciting from those software providers is they're starting to…
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