Construction Worker Health and Safety
Construction work is dynamic, diverse, and constantly changing. This leads to a great challenge in protecting the health and safety of construction workers. They are at risk of exposure to many different types of health hazards that can result in injury, illness, disability, or even death.
It is important to take steps in keep construction workers safe.
Risk Factors in Construction
Factors that increase the health risk of construction workers include the following components:
- constantly changing job site environments and conditions
- multiple contractors and subcontractors
- high turnover and/or unskilled laborers
- constantly changing relationships with other work groups
- diversity of work activities that happen simultaneously
- exposures to health hazards, both from their own work as well as from nearby activities
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-1. Construction work is a high-hazard work area that can affect employee health, primarily because _____.
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