Building Trades Initiate Massive Safety Training in Las Vegas

A few weeks ago, I posted a few stories about accidents that plagued the MGM's City Walk construction site and it looks like the Building and Construction Trades are keeping their promise to make the job site safer.

According to the BCTD website, the Trades and the the Center for Construction Research and Training are starting to roll out the safety program.

The training program involves a rotation schedule for both sites, and all workers on each site are required to go through the 10-hour OSHA safety program over two days, 5 hours per day. Thus far, over 500 workers have received the OSHA-10 training, and now that new training facilities have been provided at City Center, we will be training approximately 350 workers per week until all workers at both sites have been trained. We estimate that over 5,000 workers will go through the training.

This seems pretty comprehensive. I hope that these steps protect workers on the job.