Five Ways to Integrate Mental Health Into Construction Safety Protocols

When building your construction safety protocol, be sure to include mental health throughout. The construction industry has made tremendous progress in reducing physical injuries by treating safety as a system: planned, reinforced and continuously improved. Falls, equipment hazards and energy isolation are no longer left to individual judgment; they are engineered into how work gets done.  Mental health, however, remains largely outside of the safety system.  This poses […]

Drugmaker AbbVie chooses North Carolina for $1.4B manufacturing campus

Dive Brief: AbbVie on Wednesday said it will invest $1.4 billion to build a large manufacturing campus in Durham, North Carolina, to support production of its immunology, neuroscience and oncology medicines. The drugmaker plans to hire 734 people at the 185-acre site over the next four years, including engineers, scientists, production workers and laboratory technicians, […]

Big contractors seek to standardize safety language

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Construction workers don’t always recognize all hazards present on the jobsite, and when they do, not everyone calls them the same thing. During pre-job safety meetings, construction workers identify only 45% of the hazards they face, according […]