During the years I have been involved in the EH&S sector of business I am amazed at the attitude many companies and management take toward safety and compliance with OSHA standards. In many cases the general attitude is “I am a small company with only fifteen employees’, OSHA isn’t going to take time to visit me”. Other attitudes management takes toward a safety program are “Safety is a money pit with no return on the dollar and it adds to the cost of doing business”, “I can’t afford to have employees take a half hour a month for safety training”, “I can’t afford to implement a safety program”.

Workplace safety is vital to your workforce and to your company. In any company, personnel are your most valuable asset. Workplace safety training is about more than keeping your workers safe, though preventing injury to both your staff and the general public is certainly the major reason for safety training. In nearly every industry, OSHA and other regulatory boards set standards for worker safety that must be met, and records that must be maintained to prove those standards are being met.

An informative article about Construction and Building Site Accidents and Safety at the workplace.

Construction safety training is sometimes left up to the safety manager, who either takes over the job of training the construction team or designates other personnel such as a site safety coordinator or supervisor to do the training if the manager is too busy with construction projects and other important matters of business.