Ray Crase, safety director for Wieland Daveco, a member of AGC's Shreveport Chapter, demonstrates fall protection gear for local media during Tuesday's event.
AGC announced the results of a new analysis that found construction safety incidents dropped 38 percent over the last ten years and the construction fatality rate declined 47 percent since 1998, the year the federal government switched to a safety oversight approach known as "collaborative safety."
During a news conference today co-hosted with the its Shreveport Chapter, AGC released the findings and called for continued use of the collaborative safety approach. AGC also announced a new federally-supported safety program for Shreveport-area construction projects. The new collaborative safety program commits the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration and local contractors to provide additional training, data analysis and support needed to improve safety for the next three years.
Read the news release here.
The news was widely covered by the media, including the
Shreveport Times, Phoenix Business Journal and
Nashville Business Journal.
For more information, contact Brian Turmail at (703) 837-5310 or turmailb@agc.org.
