TCA Announces Call for Entries for 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards

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MT. VERNON, Iowa — The Tilt-Up Concrete Association has announced the call for entries for the 2014 Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards. The TCA created the safety awards program in order to recognize the contractors in the industry committed to maintaining safe working environments on their job sites. In 2007, this program was renamed “The Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards Program” in honor of past TCA president and champion of tilt-up construction safety, Al Engelman. Engelman helped introduce this industry awards program that now bears his name. Presented annually at the TCA convention, the Alphonse Engelman Safety Awards program was developed to … Read more

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NCCER Congratulates 2014 SkillsUSA Competition Winners

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ALACHUA, Fla. — NCCER recognized the winners of the SkillsUSA Carpentry and Masonry competitions on June 27 at the 50th annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.   More than 6,100 outstanding career and technical education students competed in 99 different craft, technical and leadership fields. The competitions were part of the SkillsUSA Championships, which is the national-level competition for high school and college/postsecondary students enrolled in CTE programs. 2014 marked the fifth year that NCCER has sponsored the SkillsUSA Carpentry Competition and its second year sponsoring the Masonry Competition, with Carpentry Technical Committee Chair Boyd … Read more

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Granger Construction, Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, Contractors and MIOSHA Sign Partnership

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Granger Construction Company, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Greater Detroit Building Trades Council and the Partnering Contractors recently signed a formal partnership to protect workers during the renovation of the 1956 mechanical engineering laboratory—classroom building, located on U-M's North Campus in Ann Arbor. The facility will receive approximately 141,000 square feet of major infrastructure, programmatic instructional and administrative space improvements. The building will be occupied during the renovation process, which will require work to occur in a ten phase construction plan that eliminates exposure to hazards and minimizes disruption … Read more

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OSHA Helps Workers, Employers Beat the Heat with Smart Phone App, Other Resources

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Every year, dozens of workers are killed by heat, and thousands more experience heat-related illnesses. With summer heat on the rise across the nation, workers and employers are turning to OSHA’s Heat Safety Tool for help staying safe in the heat. In all, more than 148,000 users have downloaded this life-saving app since its launch in August 2011. As temperatures soared well past 100 degrees in Phoenix, Arizona on July 1, OSHA staff joined representatives from the Phoenix City Council, Clear Channel Outdoor, Lamar Advertising, Christy Signs, the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety … Read more

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NoteVault Makes Top Industry List for Third Consecutive Year

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NoteVault has been included in Constructech magazine’s sixth annual Constructech 50 list. NoteVault, a provider of voice-to-text-based mobile reporting solutions for the commercial construction industry, enables superintendents to quickly and easily report project activity from the field using nothing but their voice and their mobile phone. This information is transcribed and made available through email or a web-based interface. The company was selected for the third straight year based on its ongoing customer satisfaction and growth, product and service offerings and its outreach and educational efforts in the industry. “We’re honored to be listed among the top technology providers in … Read more

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