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OSHA to help Protect workers involved in the Porter Neuroscience Research Center Expansion Project

OSHA has recently announced its partnership with a number of associations and companies to help promote worker safety and training for those workers who are directly or indirectly involved in the Porter Neuroscience Research center expansion project. The expansion project is taking place in Bethesda and involves a large number of skilled as well as unskilled workers.

This partnership has helped to strengthen OSHA’s commitment to increase worker safety at the workplace. Today, fall hazards at any construction site are the leading cause for worker death and injuries. Keeping these statistics in mind, it is very important to come up with different ways and ideas to reduce these fall hazards and stop the unnecessary injuries that take place every year.

The main aim of this partnership is to reduce the number of injuries and deaths, as well as the risky conditions and behaviors that could possibly result in fatalities. This is especially with regards to those injuries and fatalities that occur due to falls, caught in between’s, struck by’s and electrical incidents.

OSHA is the main authority that is responsible for enforcing worker safety in the construction as well as the general industry. Workers who work in the construction industry are constantly faced with various occupational risks that range from falling to their deaths to being crushed by heavy machinery. In order to work for the construction industry, OSHA attempts to increase awareness about the importance of safety trainings.

There are 30 hour trainings as well as 10 hour trainings that help educate workers about safety at the workplace. The OSHA 10 Hour Certifications are extremely convenient and useful courses that teach workers a number of things, namely:

  1. The course will teach you about the OSHA standards and regulations.
  2. You will learn about a wide range of programs including: electrical safety, fall protection, welding and cutting safety, cranes, derricks, hoists, conveyors and elevator safety, excavations, steel erection and stairways and ladders.
  3. You will learn about the importance of PPE.
  4. You will learn to identify various importance signs, signals and barricades.
  5. You will learn how to handle, store and dispose of hazardous materials.

Like the workers working on the Porter Research project, every worker working on a construction project should apply for a safety training program like the OSHA 10 Hour Certifications program!
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