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Agreement Promotes Job Safety for Mexican-Born Workers

“Hispanic workers are a vital and valued source of labor for home building in this country, and it’s essential to ensure that they and anyone for whom English may not be a primary language have the training that can keep them safe on the jobsite just as others do,” said NAHB President Bobby Rayburn. “The nation’s home builders commend Secretaries Chao and Derbez for signifying our countries’ ongoing commitment to protecting those workers’ health and well-being.”

NAHB and its 215,000 members share in this commitment, and are doing their part to promote workplace safety through a recently signed alliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Rayburn noted.

The alliance focuses on providing NAHB members and others in the residential construction industry with information, training opportunities and guidance that will help to reduce and prevent exposure to residential construction industry hazards.

This effort specifically emphasizes increasing access to this safety information for Spanish-speaking workers.

In a related move, NAHB and OSHA recently worked together to produce an English-Spanish edition of a comprehensive Jobsite Safety Handbook, and NAHB is currently developing a number of similar resources in both languages.

NAHB will also participated in the July 22 Hispanic Safety & Health Summit held by the U.S. Department of Labor and OSHA.

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