OSHA

OSHA

• The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the NAHB in a dispute over handing Clean Water Act permitting authority over to states.

  The NAHB's first venture before the U.S. Supreme Court as a named party resulted in a great victory for members earlier this summer. In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled in favor of our position that the EPA did not need to consider listed endangered species when handing Clean Water Act permitting...

   

• NAHB Briefs

  - Online registration is now open for the 2008 International Builders' Show. - The NAHB urges lawmakers not to abandon efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. - The NAHB produces two new products to increase jobsite safety and reduce the chance of job-related accidents.

   

• Cost of Living

  America is experiencing a serious housing affordability crisis that affects the quality of life of millions of families by locking them out of homeownership or forcing them to make significant financial and personal trade-offs to buy or rent a home.

   

• NAHB Briefs: May 2007

  - The NAHB and the International Code Council announce the appointment of members of the Consensus Committee on the National Green Building Standard. - The NAHB recently announces the release of its latest safety product, the Home Builders' Safety Program. - Four NAHB member developers win the...

   

• Safety First

  Without adequate safety and health policies in place, jobsite injuries are inevitable. One of the most important tools any builder can give to employees is adequate on-the-job training to prevent work-place injuries.

   

• Safety Concerns

  Construction is an inherently dangerous industry: Workers use sharp, powerful tools and caustic chemicals, lift heavy weights, and work at sometimes dizzying heights. Jobsite safety issues are magnified for immigrant workers, who are particularly susceptible to getting hurt on the job.

   

• Star Power

  Seattle builder takes jobsite safety to the next level.

   

• NAHB Briefs: December 2005

  - The House of Representatives passes legislation to strengthen the regulation of government-sponsored enterprises. - The Home Builders Institute has been selected by Washingtonian magazine as one of the D.C. metropolitan area's “Great Places to Work.” - The NAHB launches the Seiders on Housing...

   

• NAHB Briefs: September 2005

  - The NAHB and Wells Fargo & Co. embark on a three-year relationship that extends and expands an initial package begun in 2004. - The House of Representatives passes four bills aimed at easing OSHA burdens on small businesses.

   

• Jobsite Safety

  PRINCIPAL GEOLOGIST THE SOURCE GROUP comments on front cover and some articles to the Jul.,2005 issue of health and safety.

   

• Oregon's Safety Trail

  GARY STONEWALL, SAFETY DIRECTOR for R&H Construction in Portland, Ore., says that back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, home builders really didn't have much of a choice when it came to workers' compensation insurance.

   

• Partner Up For Safety

  For builder and developer Shea Homes, a proactive approach to safety has been so successful that its California operations earned an award from the state-administered Cal/OSHA program. It's a notable achievement: To qualify for the Cal/SHARP (Safety and Health Recognition Achievement Program) award...

   

• Cutting Injuries, Cutting Costs

  THE INJURIES WERE FRIGHTENING in both their severity and their frequency. Framing crews were the most common source of accidents. One framer fell from a scaffold, breaking his wrist and tearing the rotator cuff in his shoulder. Another tore ligaments in his knee when he leaned against a safety rail...

   

• Double Jeopardy

  A test of OSHA safety standards.

   

• Safety Enforcers

  YOU CAN LEARN A LOT BY TALKING with OSHA inspectors. First, they're not jack-booted thugs who are out to get you. Second, they do have a mission, and if you get in the way of that mission, you may pay the price.

   

• Women At Work

  IT WAS A CRY FOR HELP IN CYBERSPACE: “Anyone know where I can find a pair of safety glasses that will fit me?! I am so tired of mine slipping down while my hands are too busy to push them back up!”

   

• Latin Lament

  ALFREDO ALVAREZ'S LAST WORDS were, “Help me, I'm going to die. Talk to my family.”

   

• Deadly Hazard

  THE REPORTS COME IN WITH AN almost numbing regularity.

   

• Working Without A Net

  MAKE NO MISTAKE: Working on a home building jobsite is a matter of life and death. Someone is killed on a home building job every other day of every workweek.

   

• Job No. 1

  BEFORE THE PROJECT TEAM COULD VISIT THE JOBSITE, we were subjected to a safety briefing in a conference room. We would be expected to wear hard hats and safety gear on the site at all times.