In regards the safety meeting - yes they had those about 10 years ago as well. But what good is a safety meeting when you have nobody that knows how to use the tools.
My point was that they pretend to know what is going on, have some halfwit in charge of safety, not based on his qualifications as a construction engineer but on whether his belief system is agreeable. Safety meetings are not coffee, prayer and hope all goes well out there. They are about specific topics, what kind of things are we doing today, what are others doing, what products and what chemicals and equipment will we see today, what went wrong yesterday.
And the majority of those questions can’t even be answered because, as others say, they don’t report them internally or externally, and they are volunteers that just showed up, how would they know. And the problem with quick builds is there are way too many people to do safety in the first place. You shouldn’t walk under scaffolding, except, how will you roll out the floor while people are still putting in windows, and if you don’t do that, you can’t make the claim that the building only takes 3 days. I’ve seen in one quick build, they were still closing up the roof while the dedication meeting had already started - basically a building full of people while someone is shooting a nailgun pointing down towards their heads.
It takes weeks and months to set up a building, not because any contractor couldn’t surge 300 people, it just becomes incredibly unsafe and inefficient.
An actual builder would require at least a 2 week training for each volunteer on their assigned section, or more for some like plumbing and electrical.