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From Ted Schwartz, Safety Manager, WWW.HRIDEAS.COM

OSHA recently published new crane rules to update industry work practices that will protect employees during the use of cranes and derricks in construction. The new rules go into effect November 8, 2010. The rules are designed to reduce the common causes of crane-related deaths and injuries such as struck by load, electrocution, crushing during assembly and disassembly, failure of boom, crane tip-over, struck by the cab or counterweight, and falls.

*/ /*-->*/ from Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden State Builders Exchanges

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

By David Kalb, President of Capitol Services, Inc.,

Striving to get contractors the best information possible means getting it right from the source in Sacramento. As most of you have other plans on the agenda, I go to these meetings where government decisions are made which are important to working contractors. Spend a moment to learn what you missed at the most recent meeting of decision makers at the CSLB…

Late last week, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) held a conference call with the major highway construction associations (AGC, EUCA & SCCA) to assure our members that they will be able to make progress payments to contractor for work performed in August and September.
 
After that, if no state budget is in place, the transportation agency is worried about covering the $9.5 billion in work that is underway on state projects.
 

from the Contractors State License Board

More than 15 percent of the complaints CSLB received during the 2009-2010 fiscal year were about contractors who failed to pay subcontractors or materials suppliers. Contractors must have sufficient funds to pay for the supplies and the labor required for each contract they bid.