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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. Why is it so difficult to cite gravity related accidents?

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Is Gravity Part of OSHA’s LOTO Regulation?

FDR Safety

Examples include: A skilled worker setting up a frame for welding and fabrication and a 400 lb. However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. Why is it so difficult to cite gravity related accidents?

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Are You Ready For An OSHA Audit?

FDR Safety

This blog is targeting small employers, especially those involved with sheet metal fabrication. Over the past few years, FDRsafety has been asked to represent a disproportionate number of small metal fabricating plants. That’s a pretty high bar to reach in metal fabrication. Spot welders, riveters, manual forming machines, etc.

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Benefits of externally bonded reinforcement toward concrete & masonry

Construction Cost Estimating

Fabric-reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems are gaining popularity as a feasible substitute to FRP systems. Properties of FRCM FRCM systems are externally bonded strengthening systems which contain a fabric mesh implanted in a cementitious matrix. Both hydraulic and non-hydraulic cements are applied.

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BIM, Value Management, Life-cycle Cost Management

Building Information Management

BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology. Unfortunately, too much emphasis has been placed upon 3-D visualization and other technology components vs. the process of life-cycle management.

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Creating a sense of place with multipurpose K-12 school buildings

BD+C

James Krueger, AIA, NCARB, Design Principal Education Facilities K-12 Schools School Construction Designers Designers / Specifiers / Landscape Architects Facility Managers Architects Building Owners PreK–12 education has become far more sophisticated over the years, and school design must continually evolve to keep up with current and future needs.

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More about design drawings and model planning

Construction Cost Estimating

Plans are like a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams that are used to narrate a place or object or to communicate building or fabrication instructions which are drawn or printed on paper and can take the form of a digital file. So these design drawings can be categorized as: • Feasibility studies. and many more.