Podcast
National Safety Month 2021: Fall protection - The Overlooked Danger of Ground-Level Falls
By Alliant Specialty / June 25, 2021
Falls are one of the leading causes of injury in the construction workplace. While falls from ladders, scaffolds, roofs and other elevated workspaces are the most commonly thought of risk exposures, falling on ground-level is often overlooked. Eli Mendoza and Luis Torres, Alliant Construction, discuss fall protection, the different behavioral responses towards various fall exposures and why falling on the ground-level should be taken as seriously as any other kind of fall.