Taking some of the physical strain off construction workers could do more than reduce fatigue. New research from Texas A&M ...
CDC found construction has the 2nd-highest suicide rate, 4 times the U.S. average, but 2024 overdoses fell 28.8% and suicides nearly 2.0%.
Silver Spring, MD — Workers in the construction industry represented more than a third of all workplace heat-related deaths in 2023 and 2022, according to a report from CPWR – The Center for ...
Transportation officials say a big part is being smart in the planning process.
Deloitte puts the cost of not closing the workforce gap at $124 billion in lost output and a shortfall of more than two million skilled trade workers by 2028.
Whenever a construction worker falls from a ladder, gets their hand caught in machinery or suffers a back injury while lifting material, that moment tends to create two problems at once: The reality ...
Industry leaders created Construction Suicide Prevention Week in 2019 in reaction to a steady rise in the death-by-suicide rate among construction workers. “We all agreed, as an industry collectively, ...