Jobsite accidents provide key takeaways to how construction companies can ensure a safer workplace that will ultimately contribute to fewer injuries and deaths… and better profits. Construction managers and executives are more often being held accountable for negligence, and even facing criminal prosecution, when the worst occurs. Here’s an industry reminder about the consequences when accidents occur.

Recent accidents provide key takeaways to how construction companies can ensure a safer workplace that will ultimately contribute to fewer injuries and deaths… and better profits.

Read the first part of this story, “Jobsite Safety Is No Joke”.

Remember the story about the Sword of Damocles? It’s an ancient Greek moral anecdote (usually attributed to Roman philosopher Cicero) about how responsibility to their people is every leader’s ultimate duty. They are accountable for everything that happens with their subjects, and they cannot unburden themselves from the perils and power, and even liability, when dangers arise. The same ideas hold true for the modern construction jobsite. Especially when it comes to safety and accident prevention.

Even more so today, company leadership holds responsibility for the entire conduct of an organization. They usually get the credit for all its successes. What about the opposite? Construction managers and executives are more often being held accountable for negligence, and even facing criminal prosecution, when the worst occurs.

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