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Developing construction safety programs: an insurer/contractor partnership

Insurers can be valuable partners with contractors in developing and maintaining construction safety programs.

By Andrew Murray | Updated on November 07, 2017

The high-risk intersection of skill level and safe operations is traditionally a “proceed-with-caution” zone in the construction industry. It presents the greatest peril when owners and contractors are pressed to hire earnest but unskilled workers to bridge the gap between the current workforce and the staffing levels they need to meet demand.

Before hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the wildfires in California, put-in-place construction was forecast to make 2018 another expansion year for U.S. residential, commercial and industrial markets. A shortage of skilled workers was projected to continue into 2018 and beyond. Now, the huge demand for residential construction work after the devastation of the hurricanes and wildfires only compounds the demand for laborers to complete the work ahead.

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