A few months ago a safety expert in the building trades was walking near a construction site and saw passersby ahead of him pause, lift their shirt collars and shield their faces from a substance being sprayed onto the sidewalk.
As he got closer, he saw something that would make an inspector cringe: workers cutting through concrete with no signs warning the public to stay back and no attempt to deflect the fallout. It was particularly egregious because it was so easy to fix: simply spraying the dust with water would have kept it down.
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