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Philadelphia City Council mulling bill requiring ID cards for construction workers

Special ID cards would indicate that workers had attended a 10-hour OSHA training course on workplace safety.

By BD+C Staff | December 4, 2013

The Philadelphia City Council has held a series of hearings on a bill aimed at boosting the city's safety regulations in the wake of a deadly building collapse earlier this year.

Much of the bill is devoted to improving the relationship between the Fire Department and the Department of Licenses & Inspections, as well as improving work-site signage.

One section of the bill contains a regulation that would require all construction workers to obtain special ID cards that would indicate that the worker had attended a 10-hour OSHA training course on workplace safety.

(http://citypaper.net/article.php?Council-mulling-bill-that-would-force-construction-workers-to-get-ID-cards-16910)

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