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Is the 2018 IgCC Doomed to Fail?

Green Building Law Update

Last week the ICC and ASHRAE issued joint news releases on the status of the “unified green building code that could become the foundation for LEED certification” that will be published as the 2018 version of the International Green Construction Code. will become the 2018 version of the IgCC, due to be published in summer 2018.Significantly,

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How to Prepare for OSHA’s New Crane Rule

Viewpoint Construction Technology

If you work in construction, you’re familiar the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), whose standards regulate safety on the nation’s construction sites. Being compliant with OSHA regulations is imperative to a construction business’s success. Construction Software to Manage Compliance.

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Top 6 Most Dangerous Construction Activities

Safety Services Company

In 2018, the construction industry led all industries with 1,008 fatal work industries. If you’re a construction safety veteran, your safety program is well established and falls in line with OSHA requirements. When your program serves up the right information to employees, you create a culture that highlights safety.

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4 Strategies to Avoiding Rising OSHA Fines in Construction

Viewpoint Construction Technology

The government doesn’t take incidents like this lightly, as evidenced by the fact that the cost of penalties levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is rising. That means that at the beginning of 2018, a serious or failure to abate penalty, for example, rose from $12,615 to $12,934.

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Legal challenge to injury and illness data reporting rule

FDR Safety

The Department of Labor is putting a target on nearly every manufacturer in this country by moving this regulation forward,” said Linda Kelly, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Association of Manufacturers, one of the groups bringing the legal action, which was filed in U.S. “Not

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OSHA Extends Beryllium Standard Enforcement to August 9

Construction Equipment

Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced a delay in enforcing certain requirements of the final rule on occupational exposure to beryllium in general industry. These requirements will not be enforced until Aug.

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An SBA Public Service Announcement: If You See Something, Say Something

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

On August 8, 2023, the VA issued an RFQ for boiler plant safety device testing, calibration and inspection for one of its facilities in Arizona. In Sandford’s case, that period would have been 2018 through 2022, not 2019 through 2023, as proposed by Caldaia. Put simply, if you see something, say something.