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Understanding OSHA’s Confined Space Requirements

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Because of these very real scenarios, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set very strict guidelines for employers and employees regarding working in a confined space. WHAT IS A PERMIT-REQUIRED SPACE? Furthermore, a confined space isn’t always a permit-required space. WHAT ARE ENTRY PERMITS?

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Understanding OSHA’s Confined Space Requirements

Safety Services Company

Because of these very real scenarios, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set very strict guidelines for employers and employees regarding working in a confined space. What is a Permit-Required Space? Furthermore, a confined space isn't always a permit-required space. What Are Entry Permits?

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Federal Construction Contractors Are Faced with the Double Whammy of the Pandemic and Price Escalation: What Can Be Done?

Federal Construction Contracting Blog

In other words, this law permits the granting of equitable relief when there is not a basis to grant relief under the terms of the contract. When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March 2020, various lockdowns were ordered and Americans learned a new term—“social distancing.” 52.242-15, Stop Work Order.

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Innovation Is Thriving In Arizona

Business Facilities

What’s more, Arizona offers a robust portfolio of programs and resources supporting both large and emerging tech employers. With more than 1,200 aerospace and defense companies in Arizona, it is easy to understand why PriceWaterhouseCoopers ranked Arizona number one for aerospace manufacturing attractiveness. City of Peoria).

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#125:  Pay-if-Paid Clauses and Contractor Default

NH Construction Law

But judicial reluctance to reach an unfair result is often in tension with judicial obligation to enforce bargains as written, and an unqualified pay-if-paid clause that recites no exceptions is hard to construe as permitting any. ” 286 A.3d 3d at 1201. New Hampshire employs the same general rule.)

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In Construction, There’s A Tattletale And There’s What is Right

Best Practices Construction Law

Waukegan Steel, LLC , an employee brought a False Claims Act (FCA) against his employer for false billing and certification on a goverment project. Notably, the Court in Sloan rejected every defense raised by Waukegan and allowed the case to go forward. 3730(b).

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Virginia Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Defense Production Zones: Virginia authorizes its communities to establish local defense production zones to benefit businesses engaged in the design, development or production of materials, components or equipment required to meet the needs of national defense.