The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) today released a new safety study and recommendations to help firms improve safety.
The AGC partnered with Virginia Tech to study every construction fatality from 2010 to 2012. Here are a couple of the findings indicated in AGC’s press release:
“Some of what we found in the study confirms long-held assumptions about key safety challenges. For example, that more fatalities occur during the spring and summer; that falls are the leading cause of construction fatalities and that vehicular operations account for one in four construction fatalities.”
“Yet our new study also dispelled a number of long-held assumptions. For example, noon, as opposed to any of the morning hours, is the most deadly hour for construction fatalities. We also found construction firms that employ fewer than 10 people have a significantly higher fatality rate than larger firms. And we learned that transportation-related fatalities are increasing.”
The AGC will be making this report available, free of charge on their website. For more information, visit www.agc.org
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