ESSAY ON: Benefits of Workplace Safety in Construction

Number of Pages 7

This research paper: A 7 page paper discussing the benefits that employers and employees can achieve with greater attention to workplace safety. The construction industry accounts for 20 percent of all workplace fatalities, and fully one-third of those result from falls. Accident rates can be high in the construction industry, as can be noncompliance with safety regulations or with simple common sense. There are costs involved in achieving full compliance, and those costs include money, time and behavior change. Financial cost is the most obvious, but behavioral change is the most difficult. Indications are that all of the costs involved yield positive return. Bibliography lists 13 sources.


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