FCC's Sherman, DOL's Michaels Tout Governmental Partnerships as Making Difference in Tower Climber Safety
Collaboration by the FCC and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) "appears to be having an impact" on the safety and decreased number of fatalities of tower climbers, FCC and Department of Labor officials said in a joint blog…
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post Thursday. OSHA is a DOL agency. The FCC hosted a workshop with the DOL on tower climber safety earlier on Thursday, during which government and industry representatives called for a culture change that emphasizes safety and an increased focus on proper training (see 1602110044). Technological innovation in the wireless industry is advancing at an "amazing pace," which will result in towers that always need work and workers to complete it, but the FCC and DOL's work to increase safety is not meant to "hamper innovation," wrote FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Roger Sherman and David Michaels, OSHA assistant secretary. Instead, they said, the partnership is meant to "assist the industry in advancing safer practices so these new technologies can be deployed without the tragic loss of life that we have seen in the past.”