The trade industry includes many dangerous responsibilities for workers, which is why health and safety protocols are paramount to keep them safe. But are those protocols providing protection equally?
According to a recent study of 174 tradeswomen conducted by The Center for Construction Research and Training, 77% said they had been exposed to a hazard unnecessarily because of unsafe safety policies and implementations, such as ill-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE). This kind of oversight spells trouble for tradeswomen everywhere: 70% of the global healthcare workforce, 32% of the manufacturing workforce and 10% of the construction workforce is female.
