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Originally Posted by bryantm3
It sounds like they need the city or state to reign some of these contractors in. There was a worker on WSB who was talking about the safety of these construction projects not really being enforced….
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This is ridiculous and just not true. The construction industry is one of the safest classifications overseen by OSHA. The goal of any safety policy is to minimize employee injuries and deaths during an accident: sounds like this is/has been the case. Let all the groups that will be conducting thorough investigations from different stake holders points of views to be compiled and deliveried before saying safety policies were lacking and not enforced.
The nature and design of this type of crane has always been an issue in their use and the inability to adequately ensure a building is structural sound until the crane has been completely removed and the building shell sealed. Crane stakeholders from government regulators, crane suppliers, operators, etc etc are constantly engineering and testing improvements in the design and procedures used to minimize these types of incidences. They occur!
OSHA will be difficult, thorough and by the book on what they do and report. It is the way they conduct their regulatory duties. In the end, I can almost promise that each report from all the various stakeholders who have many various ‘goals’ with their investigations will all draw similar if not identical findings. They will only differ in what they say should be changed on future projects (due to their specific ‘goals’).
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