NEW YORK (WABC) -- After more than 40 New York City construction fatalities since 2015, the City Council passed local law 196 that requires 10 to 30 hours of new safety training for nearly all ...

The city Department of Buildings is helping pave the way for a bill that would give construction workers more time to complete their 40 hours of safety training, saying at a hearing Tuesday that it ...

The deadline for construction workers to complete their 40 hours of safety training should be pushed back from Sept. 1 to next March because of the pandemic, according to a group of lawmakers.

If you're looking for some hot topics in construction, safety and technology have to be two of the hottest. So let's talk about the role technology is playing in safety training. Specifically, safety ...

Safety is improving in the construction industry, according to the National Safety Council, but serious injuries and fatalities still occur. “I think it’s fair to say that while we have been getting ...

The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has introduced a new national voluntary consensus standard aimed at improving safety training on construction and demolition sites, two of the most ...

A safety training program at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport offers hope in the effort to stem a surge in fatalities among Hispanic construction workers. Hispanics now comprise more than 20 percent of ...

The Indian River Volunteer Fire Company held its monthly training drill Wednesday evening, focusing on building construction types and their impact on firefighting operations. The session, held Feb.