AEM Leads Industry Partners in OSHA Alliance to Enhance Worker Safety

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers led several industry partners in forming an alliance with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration. On June 22, AEM joined the Associated General Contractors, the Common Ground Alliance, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the National Utility Contractors Association, the North American Excavation Shoring Association and the Laborers’ International Union of North America at a signing ceremony that took place at the U.S. Department of Labor’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. with Amanda Edens, deputy assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.

For more than five years, AEM has worked to establish a collaborative relationship with OSHA to foster safety and health practices and programs to improve American workplaces and jobsites. This agreement between OSHA and the Partners for Safe Trenching and Excavation Operations Alliance will help address and highlight best practices for hazardous construction work.

Trenching, excavation and shoring safety will be the primary focus for the alliance’s participating organizations. In addition, AEM will also be conducting activities to support above ground worker safety efforts.

Alliance activities will include OSHA educational visits at AEM trade shows, providing speakers for OSHA forums and industry events, as well as a 2024 Above Ground Worker Safety Demonstration Day in the Milwaukee/Chicago area.