Dive Brief:

• Philadelphia, looking for ways to make sites safer after a demolition collapse that killed several people last summer, is considering an ordinance with a provision requiring safety IDs for all construction workers.
• To get a card, a worker would have to show he or she had taken 10 hours of Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety training.
• There's no mention of a charge for the ID or a photo for it, but there's also no provision to pay for the program if it passed.

Dive Insight:

Most of the ordinance that's been through a hearing hopes to improve communication between the city Fire Department and the Department of Licenses and  Inspections, and there's no guarantee the ID provision will stay in the language — but no one is saying it won't, either. One question that arises is compliance by immigrant workers, because immigrants, as a group, are often unenthusiastic about any government identification program.