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#7 Scaffolds: Understanding Top OSHA Violations of 2013

Safety Services Company

Ladders are relatively simple to use (climb up the ladder to reach something high), and deceptively simple to use incorrectly (climbing up to the top rung and/or reaching with both hands). More importantly, the necessary steps to safely use a ladder are just as simple (make fully extend the ladder and lock the spreader bars).

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#7 Ladders: Understanding Top OSHA Violations of 2013

Safety Services Company

Ladders are relatively simple to use (climb up the ladder to reach something high), and deceptively simple to use incorrectly (climbing up to the top rung and/or reaching with both hands). More importantly, the necessary steps to safely use a ladder are just as simple (make fully extend the ladder and lock the spreader bars).

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2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement: Environmental/Sustainability

Civil + Structural Engineer

The park expands Arlington County’s ability to meet Chesapeake Bay Watershed regulations while cultivating native plants and providing new boardwalk areas and fresh interpretive designs.

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Making headway: what to do about tower crane safety?

Practical Law Construction

With the scarcity of land and new residential or office developments literally growing upwards, cranes are an everyday sight in urban areas. For example: In the Battersea crane collapse in 2006 (in which two men were tragically killed), the crane operators used the manual for a different model of crane to the crane in operation.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Motivation, commitment and the use of incentives in. Millennium Coastal Park: Llanelli Land Bridges. Partnering: what is it, when should it be used, and how should it be. Federal acquisition regulation. The use of meta-analysis in international business research: Its. collaboration in the UK construction industry.

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

The building’s strategic design includes a 35 percent targeted reduction in potable water use through efficient fixtures and equipment, a 25 percent targeted reduction in energy costs with a focus on thermal performance and optimal heating, and a 360-panel floating solar array to name a few. 2 | SMR-ISD Consulting Structural Engineers, Inc.

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Pennsylvania Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

Business Facilities

BFTDA Technology Development Grant: Grants to help groups or consortia of Pennsylvania companies position themselves at the cutting edge of emerging technologies and establish a competitive advantage through the use of advanced e-business systems. PA First Program: Funding was increased in FY 2013-14 to $37.8 Funding is variable.