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Navigating the UK’s 2025 Building Regs: What Contractors Need to Know

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Key Points The 2025 UK Building Regulations, under the Future Homes Standard, aim to reduce carbon emissions from new homes by 75-80% compared to 2013 standards, focusing on energy efficiency and low-carbon heating. Choosing materials with high thermal performance and low environmental impact.

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#2 Hazard Communication: Understanding Top OSHA Violations of 2013

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Already the second most cited violation in 2013 with 6,156 instances, The General Industry Hazard Communication (1910.1200) standard, has only become more complicated with a December 1 st , 2013 deadline requiring employers to train employees on the new label elements and safety data sheet (SDS) format. Using the labels.

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#9 Electrical, General: Examining Top OSHA Violations of 2013

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General Industry regulation 29 CFR 1910.303, covers OSHA’s general electrical requirements, and accounted for 2,745 citations in 2013. Internal electrical components are not contaminated by foreign materials (paint, plaster, cleaners, abrasives, or corrosive residues). The ninth most violated regulation. Working Space.

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#9 Electrical, General: Examining Top OSHA Violations of 2013

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General Industry regulation 29 CFR 1910.303, covers OSHA’s general electrical requirements, and accounted for 2,745 citations in 2013. Internal electrical components are not contaminated by foreign materials (paint, plaster, cleaners, abrasives, or corrosive residues). The ninth most violated regulation. Working Space.

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MSDS vs SDS

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The SDS is the international form of the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Section 7, Handling and storage lists precautions for safe handling and storage, including incompatibilities. The deadline to train employees on the concepts of the new Safety Data Sheet is December 1, 2013. How is the SDS different? Why Switch?

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BIM Glossary Terms and Definitions – NBIMS-US – 2013

Building Information Management

2013 National BIM Standard today! 4) End of Life: Includes energy consumed and waste produced due to building demolition and disposal of materials to landfills, and transport of waste materials. These goals are relevant whether the data are in storage, processing, or transit and whether threatened by malice or accident.

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What You Need To Teach Your Employees by December about GHS changes to Hazard Communication Standard

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Jay Acker is a technical writer who creates material for conducting safety meetings, safety training programs, posters and other items. You have until December 1, 2013 to show that you have trained your employees to understand the new Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of chemical labels, pictograms and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).