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General safety considerations of a job site

General safety considerations of a job site

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General safety considerations of a job site

(upbeat music) - We hear a lot these days about technology penetrating the construction industry. And I say, it's about time. One of the biggest areas that we see technology making an in-road into the construction industry is in the use of safety. And we have all kinds of possibilities for future advances in this area like wearables that track a person's location, their heartbeat, and their stress levels so that we can make sure people are okay while they're working on job sites. I'll tell you that one of the reasons that we've had such an evolution in the way we think about safety and construction is because quite frankly, our record on safety in our industry here is not that great. For example, in years past, we've built things like the Hoover Dam and the Empire State Building and these great projects. And unfortunately, we've counted fatalities on those projects in terms of number of fatalities per week. That's just not acceptable. You may have even heard some of the statistics…

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