"Have a way to survey front line workers, those people that are closest to the risks. Engage them to understand their challenges, what is going well and what is not going so well," says Dag Yemenu, of ISN. (Credit: Sorn340 Studio Images/Shutterstock)
Summer months bring warm weather, travel plans, and a spike in serious injuries and fatalities, particularly in the trades, according to Dag Yemenu, executive vice president, products, at ISN Software Corp., an online contractor and supplier management platform vendor.
"Summer months have been interesting. We have been keeping an eye on the data, and year after year, July and August see increases in injury and fatality. In construction as an industry, incidents spike in those months," he says, noting a few factors are at hand.
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