Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC)/Nursing Home Care Unit (NHCU)
Cheyenne Partnership |
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#145 |
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Partners: |
Department of Veterans Affairs, Rocky Mountain
Network,
Veterans Affairs Medical Center of
Cheyenne; American Federation of Government
Employees; International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers
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Date Signed: |
December 3, 2001 |
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Date Closed: |
December 3, 2004 |
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Contact Information: |
Denver Area Office, (303) 844-5285
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: Partners addressed ergonomic
injuries and illnesses and workplace violence by utilizing best
practices in safety and health management and ergonomic program
management. The lessons learned may be leveraged by other nursing homes
operated by the Department of Veterans Affairs in Colorado, Wyoming and
Utah.
Results: VMAC’s TCIR rate decreased from the baseline of
15.4 in 2002 to 7.7 at the end of the partnership. The participants
used the OSHA Form 33 to conduct self-assessments of their safety and
health management systems. Additionally, mentoring was provided for
private nursing homes in their community, providing them with
informational materials, copies of programs, and training on job hazard
analysis for ergonomic issues. |
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HomeSafe II Partnership |
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#144 |
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Partners: |
Homebuilders Association of Metro Denver |
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Date Signed: |
December 18, 2001 |
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Date Closed: |
April 30, 2005 |
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Contact Information: |
Denver Area Office, (303) 844-5285
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: This Partnership of homebuilders in
the seven-county Denver metro area worked to identify and abate
hazards, enhance employee training, and reduce serious injuries by at
least three percent annually.
Results: The companies participating in this
Partnership conducted 5,831 new employee orientations, 7,268 tailgate
meetings, and have sent 211 people through the OSHA 10-hour
construction course.
Additionally, the baseline TCIR for the Partnership was 5.7. At the
Partnership’s completion, the rate decreased 39 percent to 3.5, which
is 34 percent below the 2003 BLS national average (5.3) for the
industry.
The Partnership has became a tool for both builders and sub-contractors
alike to ensure safety is being enforced and interpreted in a
consistent manner from job to job and builder to builder. To ensure
that the same message is being presented consistently, builders share
the responsibility of presenting information during the 10-hour OSHA
training sessions, and routinely a contractor will provide on-site
training for other contractors.
Through this Partnership, a committee was developed to inspect the job
sites of provisional and master Builders. The Partnership created an
open line of communication where best practices can be shared and
implemented. With these tools in place, the jobsites are safer places
for employees to work.
The collaborative effort of this partnership was continued with another
Partnership agreement:
#433: Colorado HomeSafe.
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National Park Service (NPS) -
Yellowstone National Park |
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#275 |
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Date Signed: |
May 30, 2003 |
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Date Concluded: |
April 30, 2006 |
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Contact Information: |
Billings Area Office, (406) 247-7494
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: OSHA and Yellowstone National
Park entered into this Partnership to address the significant increase
in recordable musculoskeletal disorder (MSDs) injuries. The objective
of this Partnership was to provide safety and health training to all
Park employees on the recognition and avoidance of ergonomic hazards
specific to their work assignments, identify and correct the primary
causal factors of MSDs to Park employees, and reduce Safety Management
Information System (SMIS) cases for ergonomic injuries by 10% for each
year of this agreement.
Results:
During 2004, Yellowstone was able to reduce their total number of OSHA
recordables from 75 to 61, which is an 18.7% decrease. When looking
specifically at ergonomics-related injuries, which are the focus of
this partnership, they achieved a 22% reduction in total injuries
during 2004. They also reduced their TCIR by 16.4%.
In addition to participating in this ergonomic Partnership, the Park
worked to improve overall safety and health. As a result, they
achieved Merit status in the Voluntary Protection Programs, OSHA’s
premier recognition program, in August 2004. Yellowstone is the first
National Park to achieve this status.
Also, in 2005, there has been a significant reduction in employee
ergonomic injuries during this partnership. The employee ergonomic
injuries were reduced to a total number of 19 from the baseline number
in 2003 of 25, which is a 24% reduction. The Park supported this
effort by spending in excess of $30,000 on ergonomics-related items
for their employees in the past two years. Overall, the Park’s TCIR
has been reduced from a baseline rate of 12.8 to 9.5 in 2005, which is
a 26% reduction. |
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Associated General Contractors (AGC)/Construction Health and
Safety Excellence (CHASE) - North Dakota |
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#292 |
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Date Signed: |
June 16, 2003 |
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Date Concluded: |
June 16, 2006 |
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Contact Information: |
Bismark Area Office (701) 250-4521
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: The Associated General Contractors of
America and OSHA partnered to improve safety and health at
construction sites. Goals included annual reductions of three percent
in injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, implementation of effective
safety and health management systems at partner sites and the
provision of training to management, supervisors and employees.
Results: This Partnership covered 33 sites
and impacted over 190 employees. Supervisors have been trained in the
OSHA 10- hour course. |
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National Park Service (NPS) - Glacier National Park |
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#314 |
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Date Signed: |
October 30, 2003 |
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Date Concluded: |
September 30, 2008 |
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Contact Information: |
Billings Area Office, (406) 247-7494
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: OSHA and Glacier National Park
entered into this Partnership to improve employee safety and health at
the Park by establishing a safety and health management system at
Glacier National Park that will meet the Risk Management Program
Elements addressed in the NPS Directors Order 50B, reduce the number
of OSHA recordable employee injuries within the park by 10% for each
year of this agreement, reduce the number of OSHA lost time injuries
within the park by 10% for each year of this agreement, and provide
site-specific safety and health training to all employees on
recognition and avoidance of safety and health hazards.
Results: Since the original signing of this
partnership, the number of injuries declined. Compared with the
baselines, the TCIR and DART rates reduced 38% and 50% respectively.
The Park is now showing increased awareness of hazards due to
associated in-house inspection activity under the direction of the
management teams and the safety and health departments’ visibility and
accessibility.
As a result of this partnership, management changes have been made.
The safety department was redesigned and the current Safety Manager
was promoted to an actual management position with all authority and
the responsibility of sitting on the Park’s Management Team. This
provided the safety department with more input and oversight on the
Parks’ daily operations. Also, the Park created a Safety and
Occupational Health Specialist position to assist in the Safety
Program Management and promoted the existing safety departments’
assistant.
Employee involvement has also improved. Employees and first line
supervisors are becoming more involved in the park wide safety and
health issues. The safety culture among all staff members is showing a
positive improvement. New employees and seasonal employees are all
required to attend at least an 8 hour orientation class plus hands-on
training by their immediate supervisors. |
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Associated
General Contractors (AGC)/Construction Health and Safety
Excellence (CHASE) - Colorado Building Chapter |
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#328 |
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Date Signed: |
March 25, 2004 |
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Date Concluded: |
March 25, 2007 |
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Contact Information: |
Denver Area Office, (303) 844-5285
Englewood Area Office, (303) 843-4500
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: The primary goals of the
Partnership were to reduce illness, injury and fatality rates by three
percent annually, increase the implementation of effective safety and
health management systems and related training, and recognize those
contractors with exemplary safety and health management systems.
Results: During the first year of this
Partnership, three companies (Swinerton Builders, Kenny Electric, and
RK Mechanical) chose to participate and successfully underwent both
OSHA and AGC inspections. OSHA also held three training sessions for
the Partners, two on Steel Erection and one on Recordkeeping. A total
of 105 employees attended these trainings. |
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Sta-Safe II |
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#348 |
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Partners: |
Mortenson/Civil Technology |
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Date Signed: |
August 18, 2004 |
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Date Concluded: |
August 18, 2005 |
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Contact Information: |
Denver Area Office, (303) 844-5285
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: The Sta-Safe II project, Stapleton
Redevelopment Infrastructure Development for Filing 12, is a part of
the transformation of the Stapleton International Airport into a
network of ‘urban villages, employment centers, and open spaces’
calling for redevelopment of homes, apartments, retail and corporate
centers. The project was located in Denver, Colorado and was led by
Mortenson/Civil Technology.
This project included: Site grading, trenching, excavating, utility
installation, road and bridge construction and landscape and
horticultural planting.
The primary goals of this partnership were to:
(1) Prevent the occurrence of incidents resulting in lost workdays
cases;
(2) Maintain a DART rate at least 10% below the corresponding Bureau
Labor Statistics (BLS) average for its Standard Industry Code (SIC),
and strive towards the goal of a zero DART;
(3) Maintain or reduce at the end of every six-month period the total
project recordable injury rate;
(4) Provide narrative reports on all significant incidents, "near
misses," saves, etc., detailing corrective action taken (if any);
(5) Have no serious violations during any OSHA inspections; and
(6) Implement a comprehensive safety and health management system for
the site that will meet or exceed the criteria developed in the
site-specific project safety and health program, the 1989 OSHA Safety
and Health Program Guidelines.
Results: The partnership leveraged resources because OSHA’s
participation resulted in a stronger site Safety and Health Program,
not just at Filing 12, but for all of the Stapleton Development. With
OSHA’s involvement, M.A. Mortenson required mandatory cooperation with
the site safety program. As a result, the site experienced improved
participation with the on-site training, the self inspection program,
the near miss and accident investigations, and the pre-dig meetings.
In addition, a stronger contractor disciplinary policy was enforced.
Safety was integrated into operations on a regular basis.
First, improvements were made to the site’s safety and health
management system including the implementation of a new pre-dig
procedure whereby a contractor representative was required to meet
with the representative at the local site to review as-built drawings
prior to application for a Dig Permit from the site Safety Office;
requiring Pre-task safety planning meetings prior to start of any
work; investigating all near-misses with detailed corrective actions;
testing employees for substance abuse; employee involvement in
self-inspections; and enforcing a disciplinary program where employees
would be dismissed after two strikes.
For the duration of the partnership, Mortenson/Civil Technology did
not experience a single incident giving the project a 0.0 TCIR. |
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Associated General
Contractors of America - South Dakota Building Chapter |
| #346 |
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| Partners: |
Associated General Contractors of America, South
Dakota Chapter |
| Date Signed: |
July 27, 2005 |
| Date Concluded: |
September 4, 2007 |
| Contact Information: |
Bismarck Area Office (701) 250-4521
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: The Associated General Contractors of
America, South Dakota Chapter, and OSHA entered into a partnership agreement
to improve safety and health at partnering sites. The goals of this
partnership included: annual reduction of 3% in injuries, illnesses, and
fatalities, increase the number of contractors who implement effective safety
and health management systems and recognize contractors with exemplary safety
and health management systems.
Results: This partnership impacted 10 employers and
590 employees. During this partnership, 4002 self-inspections were performed
and 2085 hazards were abated. OSHA held two training sessions with a total of
590 employees attending these trainings. Four participants eventually entered
OSHA Challenge. |
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Crow/Northern Cheyenne IHS Hospital |
| #421 |
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| Partners: |
Indian Health Service, Crow/Northern Cheyenne, IHS
Hospital of Crow Agency, Montana |
| Date Signed: |
August 9, 2005 |
| Date Concluded: |
August 9, 2007 |
| Contact Information: |
Billings Area Office (406) 247-7494
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: This partnership aimed to improve the
safety and health of the employees working at the Crow/Northern Cheyenne
Hospital through a collaborative effort between OSHA and the Crow/Northern
Cheyenne. The 27 bed, full service hospital, with 271 full time employees is
located in Hardin, Montana. The goals of the partnership were: to reduce the
number of blood borne pathogen related injuries by 10% each year of the
partnership and increase employees’ awareness of safe blood borne workplace
practices.
Results: This partnership impacted 226 employees at
the hospital site. During the partnership, two training sessions were
conducted with a total of 32 employees attending. Additionally, IHS Hospital
had made vast improvements to their electronic data reporting/recording
system, in terms of training personnel in the proper use and methods of
inputting information. And at the end of the partnership. The hospital's TCIR
and DART rates are 85% below and 73% below, respectively, their industry’s
averages. |
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National Park Service (NPS) -
Grand Teton |
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#141 |
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Date Signed: |
August 28, 2001 (renewed February 7, 2005) |
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Date Concluded: |
December 31, 2007 |
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Contact Information: |
Billings Area Office (406) 247-7494
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: Prior to the Partnership, the
National Park Service (NPS) experienced the highest employee injury
and illness rates of all Department of Interior (DOI) bureaus.
Recognizing this problem, the NPS approached the Occupational Safety
and Health Administration (OSHA) asking for help in improving the
employee safety and health management systems at establishments with
high injury and illness rates and provide assistance in reducing the
number of employee accidents and injuries.
Results: Throughout the duration of the
Partnership, the Park decreased its recordable cases and averaged 19
cases, 60% less than the baseline of 32 established at the start of
the Partnership. Also, the DART rate reduced 31%, from 3.9 in 2001 to
2.7 at the end of the partnership. In its final evaluation, it was
noted that over the course of this partnership, the overall attitudes
of the employees have changed for the better. The employees and
managers have made great strides in improving their communications.
Top management made increased strides and the willingness to be more
available to the employees. In turn the employees are now more
involved and more accountable toward safety in their day to day
activities. The employees, at all levels, are more apt to report
safety and health issues to their supervisors without fear of
reprisal. |
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Yellowstone National Park III |
| #477 |
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| Date Signed: |
August 7, 2006 |
| Date Concluded: |
August 7, 2008 |
| Contact Information: |
Billings Area Office, (406) 247-7494
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: The Yellowstone National Park and OSHA
entered into a partnership to focus on reducing slip, trip, and fall hazards
and associated injuries throughout the Park as they have been among the
leading causes of employee injuries with specific focuses on parking lots
during winter conditions, back-country trails and work sites, construction
sites, and access and egress on mobile equipments.
To meet the goal, the Partnership initially conducted an assessment in the
specified areas to identify potential hazards. The identified hazards were
then documented for future awareness and outreach sessions with employees. To
ensure the partnership was on track, quarterly non-enforcement site visits
were performed and injury and illness rates were tracked on an annual basis.
Results: As a result of this partnership, Yellowstone National Park now
continuously reviews their written safety and health management systems. In
addition, employee involvement has increased significantly. Employees and the
park safety and health committee often are involved in updates and feel free
to recommend changes to programs along with providing input from the Park
Safety Department. All safety and health management systems are reviewed and
signed off by the Park Superintendent.
The park has made improvements toward documenting in-house safety and health
audits as regular inspections are now occurring at the National Park. The Park
Safety and Health Manager now conducts periodic safety inspections in various
shops and buildings throughout the Park. Actual work operations are being
observed and as necessary safer work conditions and operations are immediately
corrected. All employees have opportunities to conduct work place
observations. Departmental supervisors are now tasked with conducting safety
and health audits of their respective areas. All hazards identified by these
audits are required to be addressed as needed and abated as soon as possible.
Employees along with managers are an integral part of these self-inspections.
Injury and illness rates have declined over the duration of the partnership as
a result of enhancements made to the Park’s safety and health management
systems. Prior to the start of the partnership, the TCIR and DART rates were
9.4 and 3.3 respectively. At the end of the partnership, the recorded TCIR and
DART rates declined 41 percent and 9 percent to 5.5 and 3.0 respectively. |
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Hines 1515 Wynkoop Office Building |
| #601 |
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| Partners: |
Holder Construction |
| Date Signed: |
October 25, 2007 |
| Date Concluded: |
March 1, 2009 |
| Contact Information: |
Denver Area Office, (303) 844-5285
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Regional Partnership Coordinator |
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Overview: Holder Construction Company and the Denver
Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
mutually recognized the importance of providing safe and healthful work
environments for employees engaged in the construction industry.
Holder Construction Company was responsible for the project located at 1515
Wynkoop Street in Denver, Colorado. The project consisted of the construction
of a $58 million, 390,000 square foot commercial office building. There was
approximately 12 subcontractors with 300-400 employees working at the site
throughout the duration of the project. The construction completed on March 1,
2009.
The goals of the partnership agreement included:
- Maintaining the aggregate site DART rate for all subcontractors at
least 10% below the national average for NAICS 238 for the duration of the
project;
- Maintaining Holder’s site DART rate at least 20% below the national
average NAICS 236220 for the duration of the project;
- Ensuring that all project supervisors receive at least 10 hours of
safety and health training;
- Ensuring that all site workers receive at least 2 hours of safety and
health training on the four major construction hazards, including,
electrical, falls, struck-by (including work zone safety issues) and caught
in/between;
- Identify and prevent the most common causes of workplace injuries and
illnesses in the construction industry, included but not limited to: falls,
electrical safety, struck-by (including work zone safety issues), caught
in/between, silica, cranes and noise;
- Identify work operations where employees may have exposure to
hexavalent chromium, especially welding operations on stainless steel (or
other coated materials which may contain hexavalent chromium) and
application of coatings containing hexavalent chromium; and
- Ensuring that one hundred percent (100%) of contractors and
subcontractors to have comprehensive written safety and health management
systems.
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Results: The 17 month long construction project
concluded on March 1, 2009 with TCIR and DART rates of 3.8 and 2.5
respectively. Both rates are below the Bureau of Labor Statistics Industry
Averages for the Construction industry. To improve Holder’s management of
contractors working on the Project, it did the following: Site-entry
orientation; Pre-planning for cranes on site (police presence); Near miss
investigations (4); Zero tolerance substance abuse policy; Progressive
disciplinary policy based on the severity of violation; an open door policy
with daily safety meetings to allow for greater employee involvement; weekly
subcontractor meetings; hexavalent chromium awareness training; and sharing
pre-task information with its contractors on various safety issues such as
hazards, hazards abated, and general concerns.
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