Few things are more important than learning from near-misses to improve safety.
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Construction industy not making any significant gains with fatalities
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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Pay attention: OSHA has fined Broadway Concrete for 15 willful violations involving fall protection and unprotected rebar on a 50-story NYC building. Let’s not let it happen again.
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It’s time manufacturers acquired their facilities on a lean basis. They now can with lean design and construction.
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Herrero Contractors is currently the best of the lean contractors.
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Not speaking and not listening contribute in significant ways to the failure of projects. Take the pledge…act more responsibly…start speaking and listening.
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Healthcare is learning from the Lean Six Sigma movement. Maybe it’s time construction learned from healthcare.
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Lean six sigma might save your life. Read what IHI is doing to eliminate accidental deaths in hospitals.
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Continuous improvement hits the medical community. Katie Couric features IHI’s 100k Lives campaign.
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Making work ready is the way to follow the rule “Only do work that is ready to be started and finished.”
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There is an immediate way to reduce construction jobsite hazards to improve safety. Adopt a single new rule.
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Construction safety needs to be everyone’s concern working in the industry. Great strides have been made by many companies. Yet people are being injured in roughly the same numbers as they have been for the last 15 years. OSHA issued these violations1 in the year ending September 2006:
Scaffolding, General Requirements (7895 violations)
Duty [...]
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Congratulations to the people at C.R. Meyer for a safety record that has 50% fewer incidents than others doing like work. That record along with their safety program has qualified them for OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program’s (VPP) Star status. This program has previously not been available to general contractors. In 2004, OSHA [...]
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IGLC-14: Production System Design
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Time to get serious about construction safety. OSHA helps with VPP.
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Toledo congresswoman holding OSHA and congress accountable for construction industry safety following four deaths involving Fru-Con employees at I-280 bridge.
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
Trenching deaths and injuries are in the news almost every week. (Take a look at the Safety Everyday Sideblog for recent stories.) OSHA recently responded with a Safety Tips Card: Safety in Excavations or Trenches. It is available in English and Spanish.
Trenches must meet at least [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
OSHA is cracking down on residential contractors. After employees complained to OSHA about unsafe work conditions the hammer came down, Nine New York Contractors Face $98,400 in Fines After OSHA Sweep. Antonio Pietroluongo, OSHA’s acting Manhattan area director commented,
“It’s particularly disturbing to see many of the same hazards at [...]
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The VPP works. The company featured in this short article enjoy a safety performance (injury and illness rates) that is 80% better than the usual company in its industry Occupational Hazards – OSHA’s top VPP honors go to Ohio firm. Pro-Tec Coatings supplies the construction industry. Construction needs to learn from the [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
John L. Henshaw has resigned from his post at OSHA. The official announcement gives him credit for making our workplaces significantly safer over his tenure. That’s true in total, but the situation is about the same for those of us in construction. In spite of all the efforts [...]
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Tuesday at NSC’s Safety Congress & Expo: “OSHA, NIOSH Unveil Priorities for 2005. BLR reported that OSHA is making Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) participation their main priority for 2005. They will also give attention to worker driving. 1,149 companies participate in the VPP. The OSHA goal is 8,000.
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
OSHA announced a plan to offer the Voluntary Protection Plan (VPP) to a broad group in the construction industry. Previously only owners, general contractors, and projects of a long duration could qualify for a VPP. OSHA is recognizing that subcontractors and general contractors that do short projects [...]
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Safety Thursday
Work Injury Free
The GAO, US Government Accountability Office, has come down hard on OSHA saying it is inconsistent in applying penalties and doing follow-up. Report faults OSHA’s oversight of fines, follow-up inspections
The GAO just finished an investigation of OSHA. It concluded that fines are not imposed consistently and follow-up is [...]
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In today’s Washington Post John Henshaw Director of OSHA writes, OHSA’s Work Defended. He was repsonding to a cover story of August 15 on Making OSHA More Business Friendly. His letter to the editor is off the mark. Here’s my response to the editors.
Dear editors,
John L. Henshaw wrote in today’s paper that [...]
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? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
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Boston Globe Slams Construction Industry
by Hal on August 12, 2007
in Safety, commentary, construction, leadership, lean
Boston Globe takes construction industry to task for poor management.
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