Brandenburg Industrial Service Co. has about 300 employees in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas and more than 700 employees nationally.
"We are all working toward optimal performance of both new and existing buildings, and this partnership will be beneficial for both ASHRAE and BOMA members,"said ASHRAE President Kent Peterson, P.E.
The Click It! campaign's live demonstrations will take place in mid-March at one of the year's biggest construction shows.
"It's the best code education you can receive," said ICC Board President Steve Shapiro. "The knowledge you gain by participating in code hearings will help you improve building safety when you return to your daily work."
At last week's Damage Prevention Conference in Las Vegas, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Mark V. Rosenker announced that the safety board has identified three key components to reducing pipeline and gas line excavation related incidents.
Two workers' deaths in falls prompted the stepped-up enforcement campaign, HSENI says.
Four classifications of spaces are proposed; comments due by Jan. 28, 2008.
The guide suggests a range of practical interventions to prevent common occupational injuries from handling heavy or awkward loads, making repetitive movements, and other physical demands of construction work. All of the interventions have been used on actual construction work sites.
"Certain construction jobs still experience high levels of airborne lead, and the retention of this Standard is necessary to ensure employees are protected from high lead exposure," Foulke said.
The alliance will focus on falls, electrical, struck-by, and caught in-between hazards. The alliance's outreach and communication efforts include developing information to identify and prevent workplace hazards and effective tools to convey that information.
A vast number of those in the construction industry use scaffolding on a daily basis. According to OSHA, nearly 65 percent of workers in the construction industry work on scaffolds frequently. From steel erectors to building equipment installers, bricklayers, window washers, carpenters, and painters, just to name a few, nearly 2.3 million construction workers frequently work on scaffolds. Construction sites are inherently unstable environments, with movement of workers, materials, etc. and changing landscapes. In 2004, approximately 400,000 workers suffered construction-site injuries. The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed in 1996 that 25 percent of workers injured in scaffold accidents had received no scaffold training. With the high potential for serious injury, construction safety education remains a top priority.
THIS article by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. (NGSS) addresses lessons learned from a fatality at its New Orleans facility involving a suspended load. The shipbuilding industry faces many unique hazards. Like all major shipyards, NGSS builds its vessels through modular construction. In modular construction, NGSS builds hundreds of separate units that are assembled into larger units and then integrated into the vessel.
Investigators with the Economic and Employment Enforcement Coalition, a multi-agency task force designed to root out California's underground economy, recently targeted Orange County businesses in the construction industry it said were operating illegally.
The American Society of Safety Engineers has released a historical construction and demolition standards package that includes the newly revised ANSI/ASSE A10.4-2007 Standard and all previous ANSI A10.4 standards available for the past 40-plus years.
Without prior notice, OSHA will conduct one "Swept Up in Safety Week" during each quarter of this calendar year.
THE explosion at BP's Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 contract construction workers and injured 170 other workers in March 2005 is still reverberating. A lawsuit, an investigation by the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), a glossy safety report from BP (along with $1.6 billion set aside for claims), and a bill in the Texas Legislature to mandate a state occupational safety and health plan were the first wave.
IN 1994, OSHA made a big change in how it inspects construction job sites. Previously, construction inspections were comprehensive in scope, addressing all areas of the workplace and, by inference, all classes of hazards. This may have forced compliance officers to spend too much time and effort focusing on a few projects looking for all violations--and too little time overall on many projects inspecting for the hazards most likely to cause fatalities and serious injuries to workers.
OSHA is conducting unannounced Saturday inspections of construction work sites as part of its Summer Weekend Construction Inspection Program.