Photo Gallery Offers a Site To Debate Safety Issues.

The author comments on a letter by Jim Heath, vice president of TIC Energy & Chemical Inc., criticizing the publication about its decision to run a photograph of a worker handling a slab without gloves on. The author argued that journalists have the responsibility of depicting the construction industry as it is and not portraying an idealized version of it. The author invites readers to upload photographs showing questionable safety practices on their Web site and comment on them.