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Occupational safety statistics are no longer trending in our favour.
To preface this discussion, I recognize there are limitations with the validity and reliability of the tracking; however, I also believe that it’s evident that we are no longer seeing the positive trends of the past.
But this makes sense, doesn’t it?
If we consider the drop in OH&S injuries and fatalities throughout the 20th century 50 to 75 years ago, we were still bidding jobs with an indication of how many workers would likely be killed during the project.
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Now, we are in a place where we have created, passed, and implemented laws and standards dedicated to keeping workers safe on the worksite regardless of where it is.