SSM Media

Walk onto almost any construction site and you’ll see it immediately: hard hats required, high-visibility vests mandatory, fall protection zones, equipment exclusion areas, lockout/tagout procedures, confined space warnings, emergency muster points. Safety signage is everywhere. And yet, in many cases, it fades into the background.

On any given day at a major construction site, hundreds of workers from dozens of different companies move through a maze of steel, scaffolding, and uncertainty. Some are long-term employees of the general contractor. Others are subcontractors: welders, electricians, framers, concrete finishers, working under a different company name, often for just a few days or weeks. But in the event of an emergency (a gas leak, a structural collapse, or a sudden weather threat), who gets the message first?

C ompany Urges Contractors to “Flatten” Their Alert Hierarchies So Workers Get Life-Saving Warnings First Safety Systems Management , a leader in wireless emergency notification systems for construction and industrial sites, today released a statement urging contractors to rethink the way emergency alerts are routed through job site hierarchies.