From Good to Great: A Guide to Safety Measures When Working Outdoors
The Constructor
MAY 3, 2021
Employees who work outdoors face a more significant risk of contracting injury or illnesses than their co-workers who work indoors. Be it the summer.
Using Contract Skilled Labor Can Reduce Workers’ Compensation Risk—Here’s How
Pro Builder
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Using Contract Skilled Labor Can Reduce Workers’ Compensation Risk—Here’s How. Employee safety is a top concern for builders not only looking to prevent injuries on the jobsite, but also workers’ compensation risk, something which, according to NAHB, can be avoided through employee staffing partnerships. Thu, 11/10/2022 - 10:44.
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Difference Between Tort and Contract | What Is Tort | What Is Contract | What Is Contract Law | What Is Tort Law
CivilJungle
DECEMBER 26, 2020
Introduction of Tort Vs Contract. A tort , in common law jurisdiction, could be a tort (other than a breach of contract) that causes an applicant to suffer loss or hurt, leading to legal liability for the one that commits the act. A contract is termed as a document which is done by law and completed between two individual partie s.
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The Importance of Safety During Disaster Relief
FDR Safety
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
If properly implemented this will save time and significantly reduce the chance of injury. Although there is insufficient data detailing the exact injury rates of disaster relief workers, we can look at past figures from local reporting agencies and find trends and indicators from injury and illness reporting.
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OSHA Cites Contractor After Trench Collapse
Construction Equipment
JULY 17, 2020
Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Unnerstall Contracting Co. for violations of OSHA’s trenching and excavation standards after an employee suffered severe injuries when a 20-foot trench collapsed during excavation of Creve Coeur Sanitary…
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Federal Employers Now Required to Report Injuries to Bureau of Labor
Safety Services Company
AUGUST 13, 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule requiring all federal agencies to annually submit injury and illness data to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rule will clarify the definition of federal establishment and explain when contract employees should be included on an agency’s log.
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Builder’s Risk vs. General Liability for Contractors: What’s the Difference?
Levelset
AUGUST 24, 2022
Builder’s risk insurance, typically used by general contractors, covers property damage to a building under construction, while general liability insurance covers costs associated with third-party injuries or property damage caused by contractors. . Covers contractors against accidents, property damage, and in some cases, libel.
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Federal Employers Now Required to Report Injuries to Bureau of Labor
Safety Services Company
AUGUST 13, 2013
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule requiring all federal agencies to annually submit injury and illness data to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rule will clarify the definition of federal establishment and explain when contract employees should be included on an agency’s log.
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OSHA proposes delaying recordkeeping rule, and may change it
FDR Safety
JUNE 27, 2017
The recordkeeping rule , put in place in May 2016 with an effective date of July 1 of this year, requires employers to electronically submit injury and illness forms to OSHA, which the agency said it would then publish on a searchable website open to the public. The requirements raised significant concerns among many employers.
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What Is Inefficient Risk Transfer? The Use of Indemnification in Construction Contracts
Best Practices Construction Law
MAY 3, 2017
In parenting, there is no written contract between the adult and to child to transfer the responsibility for the loss or damage. In construction, there should be a written contract to transfer the risk when you are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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7 Ways to Improve Construction Site Safety
Levelset
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Because this line of work has a greater chance of injury or death than others, contractors must take great care to make sure work zones are safe and workers are protected. . Electrocution : Contact with overhead power lines and electrical power boxes presents risks that can lead to serious injury or death during the construction phase. .
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What Is a Certificate of Insurance (COI) for Contractors — and When Do You Need One?
Levelset
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Construction contracts often require that each hired specialty contractor maintain a minimum level of insurance coverage, and a COI will reflect that status. If you’re bidding on contract work, you will likely need a COI per terms of a legal agreement. There are a few parties that might require a COI from your contracting business.
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Carpenter’s Insurance: Who Needs It & Why
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
You can practice safety and use common sense on the job, but there’s no way to predict when accidents or injuries might occur. Carpenter’s insurance is a financial instrument that helps protect your business if accidents, injuries, or illnesses occur in a work-related capacity. What is carpenter insurance?
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A Plumbing Contractor’s Guide to Insurance Coverage
Levelset
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Plumbing contractor’s insurance may help your business stay afloat if accidents or injuries occur on the job. Worker injury. If your business were found responsible for the injury, paying out of pocket for a worker’s medical bills could cause financial harm. . Licensing & contract requirements.
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52 Things Involved With Hiring Uncertified Hi-Rail Crane Operators – What You Need To Know
Construction Marketing
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
It ranges from personnel injuries to property damage. Read the Contract Carefully When you’re in the market for a certified crane operator, it’s important to remember that reading the contract is key! The risks associated with an uncertified operator can be severe.
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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
When a subcontractor is uninsured, the business can still be liable for any property damage or injury to others. If your business is found to have caused an injury or accident, the other party will seek damages. Such an occurrence could threaten the existence of your contracting business. Workers compensation insurance.
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98 #135: Unconscionable Arbitration Agreements
NH Construction Law
APRIL 26, 2024
Rafiei , 2024 WL 1470909 (April 5, 2024), recently rendered an opinion worth noting by all residential contractors, including in New Hampshire, who insert arbitration clauses with fee-splitting provisions in their contracts as a strategy for discouraging claims.
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Additional Insured Status: Playing the Speak-Out Game on a Construction Project
Best Practices Construction Law
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Whether you are required by contract or law, purchase and maintaining the appropriate coverage can help you avoid catastrophe on your project. In that case, the contractor and subcontractor (and their insurance carriers) were pointing the finger at each other for injuries sustained by an employee of the subcontractor.
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4 Lessons Construction Companies Can Take From Episodes 1 & 2 of The Last Dance
Construction Junkie
APRIL 23, 2020
What Happened: Michael Jordan Was Held Out of Games Longer Than Necessary Due to Injury Lesson: Don’t Bet Against Your Company In Jordan’s second year, he suffered a pretty serious ankle injury early in the season. As Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf explained, why would you risk a career ending injury for short term gain?
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General Liability vs. Professional Liability: What’s the Difference?
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
When it comes to protecting your contracting business from claims and lawsuits, it can be tough to know what type of insurance you should purchase. General liability insurance protects businesses from claims of property damage or injury caused by their workers or incurred on their property. General liability insurance.
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A Guide to Contractor Management and Prequalification
Safety Services Company
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
This saves you from expensive material loss, contract terminations, serious injuries, and costly lawsuits. Ensures Companies Follow Safety Measures Maintaining compliance is critical to promoting the wellness of employees and preventing serious injuries or loss of life.
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Additional Insured Endorsements & How They Work in Construction
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
There are several related terms that are commonly confused in insurance policies and construction contracts. AI endorsements are often required as part of the construction contract. A certificate holder is a party that requires proof that a contractor meets the insurance requirements to perform work as defined in the contract.
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April 2017 Newsletter – A “New, New OSHA” Emerges
FDR Safety
APRIL 27, 2017
Employers reminded to post injury and illness summaries through April; electronic filing not required until July. OSHA’s On-site Consultation Program helps Utah manufacturer reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. Ladder safety is focus of national outreach campaign. Parsons re-approved for VPP Corporate Program.
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Top 8 Construction Health and Safety Hazards — and Ways to Protect Your Jobsite
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Hazardous conditions can have both short-term and long-term financial consequences along with the possibility of work-related illness or injury. . Clothing or jewelry can get tangled up in an unprotected pulley or conveyor system, while unguarded trenches pose risk for collapse and crushing injuries or suffocation. .
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Pennsylvania Appellate Court Affirms Dismissal of In-State Subcontractor’s Suit Against Out-of-State General Contractor for Lack of Jurisdiction, Despite “Long-Term and Ongoing Contractual Relationships”
Constructlaw
MARCH 1, 2022
Bean Sprouts LLC, a Pennsylvania excavator, performed work on military bases in Alabama and California under contracts with LifeCycle Construction Services LLC, a Virginia prime contractor. The parties had repeatedly contracted with one another on out-of-state projects since 2017.
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What Happens When You Don’t Wear PPE?
Work Gearz
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Not wearing PPE can result in severe injury to yourself and to others around you. Experiencing injuries as a result of falling items or debris. Protects you from head injuries. Workplace injuries can happen- Injury risk is substantially increased by poor PPE compliance. It can result in the following things-.
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Construction Cost Estimating
AUGUST 13, 2018
The concrete is extended with the rise in temperature and contracted with reduction in temperature. The crack may happen in concrete because of contraction integrated with the impact of shrinkage. Sometimes, big and injurious stress may produce owing to deformation that takes place for temperature variation.
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#122: Construction Loan Disbursement Pitfalls
NH Construction Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Owner/borrowers like it as well; preventing the contractor from getting ahead of them in payments incentivizes proper contract performance, and a set of professional eyes to determine whether the contractor’s draw requests are justified is a welcome feature. That puts the owner/borrower in a pickle. Don’t count on it.
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#89: COVID-19 as a “Hazardous Substance” Justifying Delay or Suspension
NH Construction Law
MAY 24, 2020
For everyone’s protection, construction contracts often contain provisions for suspending work when a hazardous substance is encountered at a job site, with companion clauses governing extensions of time and extra compensation. The AIA’s popular A201 General Conditions (2017), for example, contains these provisions: § 10.3.1
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September 2015 newsletter
FDR Safety
SEPTEMBER 22, 2015
A copy of their OSHA 300A log, which summarizes on-the-job injuries and illnesses. How involved is management when an injury occurs? Effective management involvement and light duty programs can assist in injury recovery process. Contracted workers come and go frequently. A copy of their chemical inventory list.
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DESPITE HAVING TWICE SIGNED CONTRACT, CORPORATE
Construction Lawyer
MARCH 16, 2012
The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. DESPITE HAVING TWICE SIGNED CONTRACT, CORPORATE REPRESENTATIVE NOT NECESSARILY OBLIGATED TO PERSONALLY ARBITRATE. Merrill Lynch , 2012 U.S.
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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery
Job Order Contracting
APRIL 30, 2022
Partnering in major contracts: Paradox and metaphor. incentive contracts. construction: a case study on MTRC TKE contract 604 in Hong Kong. Channel Tunnel Rail Link: a contract partnership. construction contracting. Partnering: contracting for the future. A survey of supply chain collaboration and.
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Insurance for HVAC Contractors: What It Covers and Why You Need It
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) contractors must protect their business property while reducing the odds that a job-related accident or injury could financially harm their business. If you work on a job with a general contractor, the contract itself may require that all subcontractors have insurance before the job can begin.
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New Flannery piling kit makes major impact for Morgan Sindall
Construction Enquirer
MAY 24, 2023
The contract involves refurbishing the treatment works, building a new inlet designed to filter out any rags, nappies or other rubbish that has fallen into the sewer system before it moves onto the treatment phase. We can then go in afterwards and just trim everything up.”
Davis Bacon versus Prevailing Wage Rates & Construction
Job Order Contracting
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
. “Properly administered” construction projects are those that practice LEAN Collaborative Construction Delivery Methods such as Integrated Project Delivery, IPD (for major new construction), and Job Order Contracting, JOC (for renovation, repair, maintenance, sustainability, and minor new construction).
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Completed Operations: A Contractor’s Guide to Coverage, Cost, & More
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Completed operations insurance covers property damage or injury caused by work that a contractor performed in the past. The coverage kicks in when: The contract has been completed All of the work has been completed The work has been put to its intended use. Learn more: The most common types of insurance policies in construction.
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Top OSHA Violations in Construction (2021)
Levelset
JUNE 29, 2022
OSHA averages more than 30,000 inspections annually , including many unscheduled visits arising from employee complaints or injuries. This standard ( 1926.100 ) requires all employees to wear head protection anytime there is a risk of head injury from “impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns.”
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March 2015 newsletter
FDR Safety
MARCH 11, 2015
It is very important to maintain clarity by specifying safety responsibilities in a contract between an employer and a staffing agency. The responsibility for recording the injury or illness on the OSHA log belongs to the party who supervises and controls the day-to-day work of the temporary employee.
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Construction Business Owner Blogs
Construction Business Owner
JUNE 29, 2012
Points to Ponder: It is the contractor’s responsibility to create a work area and zone free from hazards that could cause injury or harm to persons or property. It is reasonable to expect that the general public assume these contractors doing the work are adequately protecting the public from serious injury or harm. August 2012.
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120 Should Contractors Be Allowed to Insure Themselves Against Their Own Faulty Work?
Construction Dive
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
The policies insure against personal injury or property damage caused by an occurrence during the contractor’s performance of the work. There is no coverage for liability the contractor assumed under a contract or agreement. But do the policies cover the work itself? Insurers certainly don’t intend them to.
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First-Party vs. Third-Party Insurance: What’s the Difference?
Levelset
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The roofer’s general liability insurance covers claims related to injuries related to the customer’s fall. General liability : Required for most construction jobs and for many state licenses, general liability insurance protects the policyholder from claims that their work led to third-party property damage or bodily injury.
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Construction Business Owner Blogs
Construction Business Owner
MAY 17, 2012
The company called us to come in and evaluate some of their work stations where they seemed to be getting the most injuries from repetitive motions. These tools are a little more expensive, however, if proven to help reduce employee discomfort and injuries, they would be an good investment. August 2012. April 2012. March 2012.
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120 Construction Contract's arbitration provision is separable, based on
Construction Lawyer
MAY 2, 2012
The cases with which he has been involved are varied and wide-ranging and include personal injury, breach of contract, criminal defense, commercial disputes, and consumer fraud. Construction Contracts arbitration provision is separable, based on Rent-A-Center. The contract contained four paragraphs related to arbitration. Section
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Some useful tips on quality control and safety in construction
Construction Cost Estimating
AUGUST 15, 2018
Also, there may be personal injuries or fatalities because of collapsing of structure. Accidents throughout the construction process can also lead to personal injuries and greater costs. Re-construction becomes necessary and facility operations get damaged due to even small defects.
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