Partnership Overview:
The Partnership aimed to create a working relationship that would allow participants to focus on eliminating and reducing fatalities and injuries to employees during the design and construction of a new Armed Forces Reserve center located in Ayer, Massachusetts. The Partnership also attempted to achieve a high level of worker safety and health. Methuen Area Office, Springfield Area Office and J&J Contractors of Lowell, Massachusetts signed the agreement on March 3, 2009.

Goals of this partnership agreement include:

1. Reduce the Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) and Days Away, Restricted and Transferred (DART) rate by 20% below the 2007 BLS national average for NAICS Code 2362, Nonresidential building construction without fatalities.


2. Requiring all subcontractors to develop and implement written safety and health management systems prior to the start of any on-site work.


3. Identify opportunities for enhancing safety and health practices related to the operation and maintenance of cranes and other material handling equipment involved in the project.


4. In addition to the implementation of a broad-based safety and health program, special focus areas included: falls, struck-by, caught in between and electrocution.

The project covered the erection of six buildings and the construction of a parking area.

Overview:
In an effort to eliminate hazards and reduce injuries, illnesses and fatalities to workers during the construction of the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford Connecticut and achieve a high level of worker safety and health, Turner Construction and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s Hartford Area Office signed a safety and health partnership agreement on March 25, 2009.

Partnership Goals:
Goals of this partnership agreement include:

1. Reduce the Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) and Days Away, Restricted and Transferred (DART) rate by 20% below the 2007 BLS national average for NAICS Code 2362, Nonresidential building construction without fatalities.


2. Requiring all subcontractors to develop and implement written safety and health management systems prior to the start of any on-site work.


3. Identify opportunities for enhancing safety and health practices related to the operation and maintenance of cranes and other material handling equipment involved in the project.


4. In addition to the implementation of a broad-based safety and health program, the following special focus areas will be maintained throughout the duration of this project: falls, struck-by, caught in between and electrocution.

The projects involves the erection of a 320,000 square foot ten story tower north of building 1 and connect to it on several floors. A helicopter landing area will be built on the roof of the new building. The project is scheduled to be completed in March 2011.

Overview:
To enhance Barr & Barr, Inc. safety and health efforts while performing work on the Marshall Conant Science Building on the campus of Bridgewater State College, OSHA and Barr & Barr, Inc. entered into a Strategic Partnership agreement with the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety's Onsite Consultation Program. The partnership included project –specific safety and health guidelines; comprehensive and task-specific analyses of work-related hazards; mandated safety and health training; meeting to discuss safety and health issues.

The project consisted of multiple phases with the first phase beginning in June 2009 with demolition and infrastructure work. The second phase began in September 2009 and included the construction of a new 150, 000 square foot building. The third phase began in August 2011 and included interior demolition of the existing east wing. Construction of a new 22,000 square foot south wing and renovation of the existing west wing was the final phase of the project.

Overview:
This OSHA Strategic Partnership (OSP) was formed to promote safety and health during the renovation of Parsons Hall on the campus of the University of New Hampshire. Parsons Hall primarily houses the chemistry department. It is estimated that 116, 000 of the 146, 000 gross square feet will be renovated as part of this project. The renovated facility will accommodate wet teaching laboratories, research labs, a university instrumentation center and general classroom space.

The primary goals of the OSP were: to provide a safe and healthful work environment for employees involved in the construction industry; to prevent serious accidents and fatalities by addressing key industry hazards (falls, electrocution, caught between, and struck-by) through increased safety and health training and self-inspections; to develop and implement effective safety and health management systems (SHMS); and to be in-compliance with applicable OSHA standards and regulations. The OSP was limited to Gilbane Building Company, which requested that subcontractors participate in achieving the goals set forth in the Partnership agreement at the time they started work at the site.

Overview:
This Strategic Partnership focused on promoting a safe and healthful work environment for employees during the erection of a seven story independent living facility, known as the Whitney Center Renaissance Project located in Hamden, Connecticut. In addition to the facility, the project also included construction of a one story parking garage.

Partnership Goals:
Some of the goals include:

• Reduce workforce fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses and provide a safe work environment for employees at the Project.
• Limit the number of injuries, illnesses, and fatalities to less than the national incident rate for residential construction. With an emphasis on reducing injuries and fatalities resulting from falls, struck-by, caught-in-between, electrocution and trenching.
• Allow OSHA and CONN-OSHA to focus resources on companies that require attention from OSHA, rather than on companies that have demonstrated existence of effective safety programs.
• Make OSHA and CONN-OSHA safety and health resources available to KBE Building Corporation, and its subcontractors on site.

Overview:
To minimize hazards and enhance workers safety and health during the Covidien West Street construction project in Mansfield, Massachusetts, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s Braintree Area Office and Erland Construction of Burlington, Massachusetts signed a safety and health partnership on April 1, 2010

Goals of this partnership agreement include:

1. Reduce the Total Case Incident Rate (TCIR) and Days Away, Restricted and Transferred (DART) rate by 20% below the 2007 BLS national average for NAICS Code 2362, Nonresidential building construction without fatalities.
2. Requiring all subcontractors to develop and implement written safety and health management systems prior to the start of any on-site work.
3. Identify opportunities for enhancing safety and health practices related to the operation and maintenance of material handling equipment involved in the project.
4. In addition to the implementation of a broad-based safety and health program, the following special focus areas will be maintained throughout the duration of this project: falls, struck-by, caught in between and electrocution.
   

This project involves interior demolition and refitting of 77 West Street in the Cabot Business Park. Erland Construction is the general contractor for the project.

Partnership Overview:
Black & Veatch was selected to modernize the Grand Station Avenue Switching Station, a component of the United Illuminating Company transmission network that serves more than 324,000 electricity customers in southwestern Connecticut. Black & Veatch provided complete engineering, procurement and construction services for the approximately $60 million modernization project that involved developing a new, indoor switching facility that uses gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) technology. The project also involved the reconfiguration of four overhead and three underground power transmission lines. The project was scheduled for completion in 2012.

Partnership Goals:
To provide a safe and healthful work environment for workers on the Station construction project and to help prevent fatalities and serious accidents and injuries within the industry through increased training, implementation of best work practices, enhanced safety and health programs.

Partnership Results:
Due to close monitoring and safety inspections conducted by Black & Veatch's Safety Director and OSHA's Compliance Safety and Health Officers, the project was free of recordable injuries and illnesses or days away from work. A total of sixty employees were trained for the duration of the Partnership, with over eighty-seven manhours spent on training. The project was completed on budget and approximately sixteen months early than projected.

Partnership Overview:
The Partnership, developed for Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., was for the construction of the College of Pharmacy project on the campus of the University of Rhode Island (URI) located in Providence, RI ("the Project"). Although the Partnership was limited to Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., the company requested subcontractors participate in achieving the goals set forth in the Partnership agreement at the time they started work on the site.

The Project consisted of the erection of a 145,000 square foot five story College of Pharmacy building on the University of Rhode Island campus. The facility included teaching and research laboratories, laboratory support space, and office space. The Project was expected to employee about 350 workers during the peak of the Project.

Partnership Goals:
Some of the goals include:

• Develop a contractor/government partnership that will encourage involvement of the general and sub-contractors in the improvement of safety and health performance
• Implement innovative strategies to eliminate serious accidents, including the four primary construction hazards (falls, struck-by, caught in, and electrical)
• Identify opportunities for enhancing safety and health practices related to the operation and maintenance of material handling equipment involved in the Project.
• Reduce workforce fatalities, serious injuries and illnesses and provide a safe work environment for employees at the Project.

Overview:
This strategic Partnership agreement was developed to create a working relationship that will allow participants to focus efforts on eliminating and reducing fatalities and injuries to employees during the design and construction of a new 154,000 square foot High School for the Town of Wayland, MA (the Project). The Project consisted of an administration building, a classroom building, a waste water treatment building, and the renovation of the existing 42,000 square foot field house. The Project also included the demolition of the existing structures and an extensive site improvement package. The Project value was estimated at about $56 Million.

In addition to Shawmut Design and Construction, the opportunity for participation in this Partnership agreement was extended to those subcontractors involved in the Project.

Partnership Goals:
Some of the goals include:

• Develop a contractor/government Partnership that will encourage involvement of the general and subcontractors in the improvement of safety and health performance
• Implement innovative strategies to eliminate serious accidents, including the four primary construction hazards (falls, struck-by, caught in, and electrical)
• Identify opportunities for enhancing safety and health practices related to the operation and maintenance of material handling equipment involved in the Project