Leadership

A Practical Guide for Construction Vice Presidents Can OSHA inspect a construction jobsite without a warrant? Yes—but not always. Let me explain. When OSHA arrives at one of your construction projects, you'll have to make decisions that can affect far more than a single citation. Do you cooperate? Refuse entry? Call your attorney? One wrong decision can disrupt production, strain client relationships, increase insurance costs, damage your company's reputation, and even affec

Construction wildfire smoke wasn't something I expected to be answering questions about. It caught me off guard too. And what was especially uncomfortable was that I didn't know how to answer it. I couldn't find any OSHA regulations for my State (Michigan). Then a really smart company did something I learned a lot from. They called an emergency safety committee meeting to discuss. As their 3rd party safety professional, I was invited to contribute. We discussed many thing

22' excavation, sloped at 63 degrees "This is their fix; really need something back from you. You should go take a look". This was the text I got from one of our West Michigan concrete clients. Their team was exposed to this 22' excavation sloped at 63 degrees. I immediately looked at MIOSHA's excavation table-1 which shows which angle of slope is the maximum needed for the type of soil. In this case, the soils expert was saying it was stiff clay. MIOSHA says stiff clay