NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

comprises a series of serious hazards and it’s
considered as a high risk industry. However,
in my opinion, the increase number of these
fatalities is going out of control.
Some people could say that there is not
sufficient number of safety inspectors, involve
the employers to watch their own people or from
the government for conducting regular
inspections to identify the risk. It is true
that we still have a series of employers in
that industry that do not spend resources and
when I mean resources, we mean human and
monetory for providing the necessary training
for those workers to be safe at their work.
Some of these companies believe that
spending resources in training goals against
their benefit for at least two reasons,
training cost money and also delayed projects.
I want to stretch that out the efforts led by
the government and some of the main companies
of the Island for being offering training in
this and other safety training. Some of the
companies are developing curriculum, specially
for the construction contract workers and are
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