Nevada Building Trades Union Leader Calls for Construction Access to Overdose Meds
- With a higher than average rate of recreational and non-prescription drug use, the construction industry needs to better address unintentional overdoses, a senior official at the Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions, wrote in an Aug. 22 op-ed in Construction Dive.
- Vince Saavedra cited steps that Nevada has recently taken to update statewide policy to enable access to all overdose reversal tools, but said policymakers in several other states need to take similar action, citing a May 2024 study of state level Naloxone standing orders.
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Gilbane Taps Lendlease Executive as Global Health and Safety Chief
- Gilbane Building Co. has hired former Lendlease executive Steven Carter to be its new director of global health and safety.
- Carter’s role includes oversight of training, compliance and the construction firm’s jobsite safety culture.
- Gilbane is the 12th-biggest US contractor, according to ENR’s 2023 ranking.
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