Workplace Safety Attorney Discusses OSHA’s Safety Data with Construction Dive

In an interview with Construction Dive, Howard Mavity shares his insight on how construction companies can measure improvement when there is a lack of consensus and quality in OSHA’s safety data. After reviewing OSHA’s safety data, the article says that a major challenge to improving safety is that there is no universally accepted, publicly available metric for construction that measures how safe a company or a jobsite is. To keep workers safe, contractors rely on a mix of some type of incident tracking, preventative practices, OSHA guidelines, employee training, and technology-based tools.

In response to this ambiguity, Howard explains that the agency is lenient with companies that display safety programs and procedures that show they "walk the talk." "OSHA is going to use the smaller hammer on the contractor who earns trust with transparent, genuine safety action."

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