AGC joins Drug-Free Workplace Alliance

July 17, 2006
Association strives to educate workers about job site hazards created by drug and alcohol abuse

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), Washington, D.C., recently joined the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Drug-Free Workplace Alliance. The partnership is designed to foster safer, drug-free, and healthier American workplaces by providing the construction industry with information to help it develop and understand the benefits of drug-free workplace programs.

Alliance activities will focus on educating workers about the job site hazards created by the abuse of alcohol and other drugs in construction workplaces.

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