From the course: On the Job Site: Construction

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Danger tape vs. caution tape

Danger tape vs. caution tape

From the course: On the Job Site: Construction

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Danger tape vs. caution tape

- People talk about construction sites being dangerous places. And there's a good reason for that. Construction sites are really unique in that we've got a lot of different companies and trades working together, next to each other, all out here on the same job site and that presents some interesting issues. So for example, it's one thing if it's my company, for me to train my employees to do things safely, kinda like you see over here in the background. But the problem is, even though I'm doing things correctly and safely over here, because my people are trained to understand it and work with it, I might be creating a hazard for everyone else that's walking on the job site, that has no idea what I'm doing over here. So what we do is we have a set of rules and we expect everybody on this project to know what the rules are. For example, we put up red danger tape. That's different then yellow caution tape. And there's a good reason for that. Red danger tape means, if you don't belong…

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