The National Safety Stand-Down for fall prevention in construction is a combined effort from OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. Employers and workers all over the nation were encouraged to pause in their workday this week to talk about fall prevention in construction, and dedicate themselves yest again to the safety of this nation’s most valuable resource: our workers. Every year, more than 80,000 workers suffer an injury on construction job sites across the U.S. Any one incident is too many. Specifically, fatalities caused by falls from elevation continue to be a leading cause of death for construction workers, accounting for 291 of the 828 construction fatalities recorded in 2013, and more than 3,500 fatalities over the last 10 years. Those deaths were preventable, and there’s a growing safety movement that focuses on saving the lives of workers through fall prevention education. Each of Doster’s project teams, like the HealthSouth Franklin team pictured above, focused their weekly safety meeting this week on Fall Protection/Fall Rescue or Fall Preventions. You can read more about safety week at at the BBJ.