San Antonio High School Students Explore Industry Trades at the Texas Construction Career Initiative's Construction Career Day
The following article was authored by Michelle Neundorfer and originally published on Construction Citizen.
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Fall Protection Equipment and Systems
An injury because of a fall is a major problem in construction. More than 20,000 people are killed every year due to a fall. Only traffic accidents cause more tragedy. Falling hazards on jobsites are grouped into three general categories:
Weekly Toolbox Talk: Carelessness Causes Accidents
Note to Supervisors: Read and prepare for meeting by looking over your jobsite and how your personnel are approaching their jobs. Carelessness is not acceptable.
Project Safe states quite simply:
Employee Basic Safety Rules, Safe Work Habits: “Careless disregard for the safety of other employees will not be tolerated and is grounds for immediate termination."
Auburn University Students Volunteer Construction Skills to Hurricane Harvey Relief Effort [VIDEO]
A group of college students, faculty, and guests spent their spring break this year travelling to the Houston area from Auburn, Alabama to volunteer on work crews repairing homes damaged during Hurricane Harvey last August. The group included seven graduate and undergraduate students and two faculty members from the McWhorter School of Building Science which is part of the Auburn University College of Architecture, Design, and Construction. Two of the students are attending Auburn as international students from the countries of Nepal and Pakistan. Also travelling from Alabama were two volunteers from Auburn United Methodist Church. Their work assignments were coordinated by Texas Recovers, a relief organization funded by the United Methodist Committee on Relief, the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, and individual donations.
