Focus Four Hazards Safety Training Comes to Pittsburgh

For the seventh year in a row, the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Arlington, Va., has partnered with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to offer free Susan Harwood Grant training seminars.

The Focus Four Hazards in Construction covers falls, electrocutions, struck-by’s and caught-between’s, which account for the greatest number of fatalities in the construction industry, according to the press release.

These free training seminars are being held May 11-12 in Pittsburgh.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Focus Four Hazard Statistics;
• OSHA standards and industry best practices to abate Focus Four Hazards;
• How to identify locations of Focus Four Hazards;
• Selection and criteria of Focus Four Hazards safety systems and equipment; and
• Training requirements for Focus Four Hazards.

More information is available at www.agc.org/cs/event_details?eventId=1055.