Dive Brief:

• The week that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration marked as the time for a coordinated safety campaign across the U.S. arrived Monday, and the agency said it has commitments from tens of thousands of employers to hold meetings involving more than 1 million construction workers.
• All safety is included, but OSHA is focusing on trying to reduce the incidence of falls, which killed 279 construction workers in 2012, the last year for which numbers are available, and is the violation most often cited by OSHA field inspectors.
• OSHA had a range of materials available for employers to use for training workers about proper use of safety equipment and the importance of always being properly secured.

Dive Insight:

The news media have provided ample evidence in recent months of the danger that falls present at construction sites. While some workers have fallen multiple stories, others have been killed by falls of only a dozen feet or so.