Matthew C. Compher, safety VP of the large power sector specialty contractor, changed the emphasis of its safety program.

More suppliers as well as contractors are likely to fit the criteria and find themselves placed on the U.S. Labor Dept.'s severe safety violators list.

OSHA cites demolition contractor in Boston collapse that killed the operator. 

New York City counts its fifth building-construction related fatality of 2022.

Sometimes the most important ideas take a long time to sink in. Two books that have helped to reshape ideas about occupational safety, published by the same academic press in 2014 and 2012, are Sidney Dekker’s The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ and Todd Conklin’s Pre-Accident Investigations.

On Feb. 12, 2020, Roy Rock LLC sent a concrete pump truck to Elizabeth, N.J., where a developer was constructing an apartment building. It had rained heavily much of the week.

There are solutions that employers can try that may make the transition easier.

A viewpoint commentary by two safety-minded professionals shows why new ideas may be hard to enact in construction.