Dive summary:
- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is focusing on the safety of temporary workers, including those on construction sites and checking whether the temps have had the safety training they are required to get.
- The training, OSHA noted, has to be in a language and with a vocabulary they can understand so it will be effective.
- OSHA looked at work-place fatalities and found that 12% were in the construction industry. They also found that Hispanic or Latino contractors accounted for 28% of construction fatalities, a disproportionate amount.
From the article:
Inspectors will use a newly created code in their information system to denote when temporary workers are exposed to safety and health violations. ...