Raymond Mann, QSSP, is a global technical services & regulatory/application engineer at 3M™ Personal Safety Division. Ray may be reached at ray.mann@mmm.com.
For decades, leading causes of death on construction sites have been “Falls” and “Struck by Object” according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). In 2015, OSHA recorded 364 deaths from falls (38.8 percent of the total construction deaths) and 90 from being struck by objects (9.6 percent of the total construction deaths).
