SafeWork NSW Crackdown On Crane Operator Licensing, Competency & More
SafeWork NSW Inspectors Move To Verify Licensing & Operator Competency On Crane Operators, Riggers & Doggers In a 6 month crackdown on operators, compliance management and maintenance of cranes, SafeWork NSW inspectors set a fresh target for increased...
A Systematic 6-Step Approach To Job Safety Analysis
Risk Management, A Core Component Of Competent Management Practices Safety without reliable risk management control is no safety at all. If the aim is keeping our construction workforce protected from unnecessary hazards and risks, contractors must apply a systematic...
Construction Industry Overspending Revealed As Major Annual Cost
Construction industry overspending comes in many forms, but the cost of mismanaged information is one expense that could be easily controlled. With the modern features of construction operations management software, keeping up with project data has never been easier....
Construction Industry Primed For Global 2025 Digital Transformation
Building and Construction Sector Awareness – Making Ready For the 2025 Global Digital Transformation For a long time, the construction industry suffered loss in almost every aspect of digital transformation. This delay was partly due to the late introduction of...
New Zealand Construction Labour Shortage, A Major Government Concern
New Zealand Government Moves To Control Widespread Shortage In The Construction Labour Force In a nation with a population of 4.7 million residents, the reality of a construction labour shortage hits home hard. Development is on the increase. Construction demand is...
SafeWork NSW Construction Safety Crackdown Expensive For Wayward Australia Firms
SafeWork NSW Crackdown On Australia Construction Safety Violations Results In Over $800,000 In Fines and Prosecutions In a driven effort to reduce and control construction safety violations within the Australia construction industry, SafeWork NSW has issued over...
ACT Work Health And Safety Law Changes For Major Construction Projects
Amended ACT Work Health and Safety Tabled On June 7, 2018 With the advent of a new 2018 amendment, the ACT Work Health and Safety Act 2011 may undergo major legal changes for the construction industry. Assuming that the amendment passes the ACT Legislative Assembly,...
Slow Adoption of Technology Drives Increase In Under-performance Projects
Resistance to Modern Technology Results in Construction Industry Under-performance Projects In addressing current challenges to success within the modern construction industry, contractors cannot minimize the problem of under-performing projects. We live in an age of...
Essentials of an Optimized Construction Industry Safety Culture
Essentials of an Optimized Construction Industry Safety Culture Building Optimized Safety Culture and Health Management Within The Construction Industry An optimized safety culture helps reduce construction industry accidents. This means reduced worker anxiety, less...
Colorado Investigation Confronts Misclassification of Construction Industry Employees
Colorado Task Force Takes On Employer Abuse of Construction Industry Employee Classifications What happens when Colorado determines that an unscrupulous contractor or subcontractor has willfully misclassified construction industry employees? Nothing good. The first...
OSHA Interpretation For Construction Contractors
Four Major Categories of OSHA Interpretation OSHA standards for safety fall into four primary categories with each grouping based according to specific types of work. Divisions of employment fall into the following components of the CFR: Agriculture (Part 1928)...
OSHA proposes new crane rule addressing operator qualifications
New OSHA Qualifications Rules for Crane Operators in the U.S. Resets Employer Responsibility For Operator Competency In the ongoing drive to improve construction operations safety, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposes an updated standard...
Jobsite Millennials, A Strange New Term In The Construction Industry
Jobsite Millennials: Perhaps an unlikely combination of words. Or is it? Due to the millennial workforce reputation for slack work ethics, many contractors are somewhat nervous about taking on jobsite millennials. In a recent CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey,...
Materials and Construction Takeoff, The Basics
What Do We Mean When Talking Construction Takeoff? Construction and material takeoff, sometimes tagged merely construction take off, pertains to a particular type of estimating process. The core of the takeoff aims to enable contractors with the tools necessary for...
The Backbone of An Effective Cost Code System in Construction
Cost Codes – More Than The Defined Cost of Work-In-Process Cost codes should not be defined merely as the types of work within a project. Such simplicity of definition causes one to miss the purpose of having a cost code system. At core level the codes tend to...