The USG Corporation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have released their Q3 report on the state of the U.S. construction industry. The main takeaway? Contractors are continuing to feel the squeeze of a tight labor market. And unfortunately, many believe the skilled labor shortage is having a negative impact on job site safety. …
There’s no denying that the construction industry is a dangerous one. Of the twenty-five most dangerous jobs in America, nine are in construction sub-specialties. (Roofers, site supervisors, equipment operators, and HVAC techs all made the list, as did other construction jobs.) Now, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) has released a report on what contractors …
The opioid epidemic is just as big of a worry in the trucking industry as it is in the rest of the economy. The crisis has been on the radar of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration since May of last year. At that time, the agency expressed concern about fleets failing to drug test …
We’ve written before about how drug use is shrinking the American workforce. Now there’s a new wrinkle to the problem of substance abuse in the workplace: the opioid crisis. The Scale Of The Opioid Epidemic In 2016, more than 64,000 people died from overdoses of opioids. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death …
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