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Back to Basics: Construction Safety and Health

By Guy Burdick, EHS Daily Advisor May 12, 2025 Back to Basics

Updated: May 12, 2025

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine construction safety and health. Building involves various tasks and projects performed by laborers representing multiple trades using all kinds of tools and equipment. That variety of work comes with various health […]

Back to Basics: A Look at Construction’s ‘Fatal Four’ Safety Hazards

By Guy Burdick, EHS Daily Advisor Nov 25, 2024 Back to Basics

Updated: Nov 25, 2024

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the most dangerous construction safety hazards. Are you familiar with the construction industry’s deadliest safety hazards? The “fatal four” or “focus four” safety hazards are caught-in/-between hazards, electrocution, falls, and struck-by […]