The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has published a new national voluntary consensus standard for safety training on construction and demolition sites.
ANSI/ASSP A10.2-2025, “Safety, Health and Environmental Training for Construction and Demolition Operations,” establishes best training practices to help organizations eliminate hazards and risks that cause injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Types of applicable training on construction and demolition sites include new hire, site safety, regulatory, pre-job, supervisor leadership, and retraining. Training evaluations, documentation and record-keeping are also key components of a workplace safety and health program.
“Voluntary consensus standards provide the latest expert guidance and fill gaps where federal standards don’t exist,” according to an ASSP news release. “Companies rely on them to drive improvement, injury prevention and sustainability. With government regulations being slow to change and often out of date, federal compliance is not sufficient to protect workers.
“Organizations that make worker safety a core value can avoid the economic and reputational costs of incidents involving their workers. Those costs may include medical care, equipment repair, liability, lost productivity, environmental impacts, and damage to the company’s reputation.”
