Construction Enquirer

JUNE 12, 2023

A drone fell from the sky and hit a construction worker during a site inspection flight on a housing site in Lancashire. A report released by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the drone suffered a rapid loss of battery power above the Garsteng site. The site worker was not injured.”

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Site Accidents Inspections Housing 98

FDR Safety

MARCH 19, 2020

The most important step to take before an OSHA inspection even takes place is selecting a company representative. The company representative is the individual charged with representing the company’s interests during an OSHA inspection. Determining the type of inspection being conducted and the intended scope.

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OSHA Inspections Conference Employment 156

Construction Dive

JANUARY 19, 2023

OSHA Regional Administrator Stephen Boyd spoke candidly about the industry’s fatality numbers at AGC’s health and safety conference this week.

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OSHA Inspections AGC Site 157

Construction Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

Crane certifications are crucial for construction site operations due to their critical role and potential risks. Promoting safety in construction sites involves ensuring operators understand standard procedures, equipment inspections, load calculations, and hazard identification.

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Certification Site Accidents OSHA 173

BD+C

JUNE 8, 2020

OSHA’s in-person checks of construction sites have plunged by 84% during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first week of March, OSHA conducted about 395 construction inspections. The number of inspections at construction sites dropped to about 65 during the week of April 26.

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Inspections OSHA Safety Construction 122

FDR Safety

MARCH 7, 2019

Whether employers like them or not, drones are a safer way to perform inspections. That being said, with potential for drone inspections increasing, we recommend that you do what is needed to maintain a good working relationship with OSHA, whether that means allowing drone use on your job site or not. More drones.

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Inspections OSHA Employment Safety 120

Construction Enquirer

MAY 11, 2023

Safety inspectors are launching a three-month campaign this summer to tackle the threat of dust on construction sites. Inspections will specifically focus on dust control, checking employers and workers know the risks, plan their work, and are using the right controls. ”

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Site Risk Employment Inspections 128

Construction Dive

JUNE 20, 2018

The Spokane Public Works Department in Washington says it will employ unmanned aerial vehicles to quickly and safely perform necessary inspections on existing infrastructure and ongoing construction projects.

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Inspections Site Washington Employment 92

Business Facilities

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Carvana will invest $40 million in the new Oklahoma City Inspection and Reconditioning Center (IRC); upwards of 350 jobs will be created. The post Carvana To Build Inspection, Reconditioning Center In Oklahoma appeared first on Business Facilities Magazine - Area Economic Development, Site Selection & Workforce Solutions.

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Oklahoma Inspections Oklahoma City Site 52

Safety Services Company

JANUARY 26, 2024

A massive fire took hold of a construction site in Charlotte, NC. Over 90 firefighters rushed to the site to put out the blaze and search for victims. Construction sites face fire-related incidents daily. Startling data from OSHA states that burn-related injuries make up 5% of fatalities in construction sites.

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Safety Site Permits Electrical 54

Construction Equipment

MAY 1, 2020

Tampa’s City Hall is sending nurse-inspectors to the 52 largest construction sites in town to help keep workers healthy and employed. The use of nurses to do spot checks appears to be unique among the Tampa Bay area. Department of Homeland Security has designated construction and…

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Tampa Site Inspections Security 65

Construction Dive

JANUARY 18, 2024

The San Francisco builder’s penalties stemmed from allegedly failing to use proper stormwater controls and conduct regular inspections across four solar farm sites in three states.

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San Francisco Inspections Site 116

Construction Today

JUNE 12, 2023

Every year, thousands of accidents occur on construction sites, resulting in injuries and fatalities. We offer the top four: Employers need to have a designated safety officer in charge of carrying out regular inspections and identifying potential.

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Safety Site Accidents Injury 52

The Constructor

JUNE 13, 2021

A construction checklist is a set of items or activities that a site in-charge must verify, check, and inspect to ensure the systematic progress of a.

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Inspections Construction Site Engineering 221

Pro Builder

JUNE 3, 2020

OSHA Construction Safety Inspections Fall 84% During Pandemic . OSHA’s in-person checks of construction sites have plunged by 84 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first week of March, OSHA conducted about 395 construction inspections. In the first week of March, OSHA conducted about 395 construction inspections.

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Job Order Contracting

MARCH 4, 2022

Request for Proposal / Site Visit. Scoping / Joint Site Visit. Regular Updates and Inspections. Final Inspection. The Typical JOC Process: Confirm Project is Suitable for JOC. Contractor Proposal Preparation and Submission. Owner/Client Proposal Review. Proposal Acceptance/Rejection. Preconstruction Kick-off Meeting.

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Inspections Estimating Regulation Contractors 228

FDR Safety

MARCH 16, 2021

Department of Labor’s (DOL) COVID-19 Workplace Safety Plan to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission to OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHO) during inspections. [2]. To the extent possible, all inspections should be conducted in a manner to achieve expeditious issuance of COVID-19-related citations and abatement.

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Plans OSHA Inspections Discrimination 156

BD+C

JUNE 10, 2021

This month, the New York City Department of Buildings deployed teams of enforcement inspectors to perform safety inspections at the city’s larger and more complex construction sites. The action followed the deaths of three construction workers over a two-week period. Two of these fatal incidents resulted from worker falls.

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New York City New York Safety Site 69

Jobsite with Procore

APRIL 24, 2023

For as long as there have been building codes and standards, inspections have been an important part of the construction process. As a result, inspection routines are a familiar, and somewhat entrenched, part of any project’s workflow.

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Inspections Site Regulation Safety 52

Construction Dive

APRIL 9, 2019

The agency's visits to construction sites will ramp up once new inspectors are fully trained, labor department head Alexander Acosta told a House committee.

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Inspections OSHA Housing Site 131

ENR Construction

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

As efforts advance to finally demolish the partially collapsed Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, two city building inspectors have been suspended for failing to properly inspect the site last summer.

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Site Inspections 69

Fieldwire

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that almost 10 out of every 100,000 construction workers are killed on a construction site - each year. The focus here will be on six fundamental practices needed in order to improve machine operator safety on construction sites. In 2019, 1,071 workers in the U.S. Management System.

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Safety Site Construction Equipment 94

Construction Cost Estimating

JULY 12, 2019

Concrete construction activities should be done on the basis of the job site specifications, methods and drawings. Concrete inspection and testing should be executed by experienced personnel to ensure that requirements of the specifications, methods and drawings are satisfied.

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Inspections Concrete Drawings Certification 40

ENR Construction

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The successful demonstration of safe operation of an inspection drone by a pilot located miles away and beyond visual line of site will help the Federal Aviation Administration develop rules and guidelines for routinely permitting commercial inspection flights in the future.

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Inspections Guidelines Visualization Permits 57

ENR Construction

MARCH 31, 2020

Meanwhile, Los Angeles issues new site safety guidelines and additional site inspections based on public reports of violations. Six Bay Area counties announced Tuesday that most construction is to be halted due to a tightened, joint shelter-in-place order.

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Los Angeles Site Safety Guidelines 69

The Constructor

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The requirements of site for buildings with different occupancies are different. So all the buildings proposed for different purposes have different requirements and thus different considerations for their site selection. The site should be in fully developed area or in the area which has potential of development.

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Residential Site Plans Concrete 240

Construction Equipment

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a program aimed at targeting high injury and illness rates in manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors for inspection. The Site-Specific Targeting program will inspect employers it believes should have…

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Inspections Injury OSHA Employment 48

Construction Dive

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Despite pushback from developers, a team of 38 has randomly inspected more than 20,000 major construction projects in the city, saying it's resulted in safer working conditions, and that number is set to increase.

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Inspections Site Construction 128

ENR Construction

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you've ever seen one of those movie-sized OSHA posters, you know the dizzying amount of rules and regulations that construction sites must adhere to in order to be safe.

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Inspections Software Software Safety 36

HardHatChat

MARCH 27, 2018

Using prefabricated construction components (elements that are manufactured off-site and then delivered to the construction site for installation) or a modular construction model (where entire building sections are constructed in a plant facility and delivered for on-site assembly) certainly has the potential to improve efficiencies.

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Commercial Union Construction Site 328

Lets Build

MAY 12, 2023

Inspect your jobsite to identify health and safety hazards As jobsite conditions change, new hazards can pop up anytime. It’s important to regularly and frequently perform inspections as you move into different building phases, when trades arrive and depart, after inclement weather, etc.

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Safety Management Inspections Injury 148

Construction Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The industry's old-school ways mean contractors waste time and money mailing revisions to blueprints, tracking paper receipts and invoices, or traveling long distances to do on-site inspections of small changes.

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Inspections Travel Site Construction 200

Construction Cost Estimating

JANUARY 30, 2019

This civil engineering article sheds light on the required steps for post-concrete inspection as soon as decluttering of any concrete structure is completed. The subcontractor will inform QA/QC that curing is retained by the submittal of curing records. Ensure that curing is retained for a prolonged time if necessary.

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Inspections Concrete Documentation Sustainability 40

Levelset

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Unsafe practices on the site could lead to construction delays , legal fees to defend violations , and breach of contract if safety issues are non-compliant with contract terms. . 7 best practices to improve construction site safety. Create a comprehensive site safety plan. Make safety a priority.

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Safety Site Injury Construction 52

Wolgast Corporation

MARCH 2, 2022

Safety is an important aspect of any business but especially in construction, where a little accident can have serious impacts to those involved; the trades people on site, the owner, and the contractor. All work sites are subject to OSHA and governmental inspections.

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Safety Site Accidents Injury 62

HardHatChat

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Because there are complex details with restaurant projects that are very different from most commercial construction job sites. Amped-Up Restaurant Construction Inspections. Because of the food service element, there are increased inspection steps for a restaurant project – and typically a higher level of municipality oversight.

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Contractors Inspections Construction Commercial 324

Construction Marketing

MARCH 31, 2023

Inspection And Monitoring Redevelopment projects or new construction are significant contributors to waste generation. This usually includes site inspection and monitoring to analyze, assess and understand the estimated environmental damage caused by new projects.

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