Data on workplace injuries, safety concerns, and provisions for safety
equipment and job training suggest that workers supplied by temporary staffing
agencies to building and construction contractors in the Atlanta metro area work in
substandard safety conditions. Agency-supplied temps cite inadequate job training
and insufficient provisions for safety equipment as reasons for their safety concerns.
Temporary agency workers in Atlanta’s building and construction industry
experience substandard safety conditions in part because non-standard employment
arrangements between building contractors and temp agencies undermine the
efficacy of regulatory forces designed to improve workplace safety standards.