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Kansas Contractors Association Partnership
#134
   
Partners: Utility Contractors, Inc. and BRB Contractors, Inc.
Date Signed: July 23, 2001; Renewed October 5, 2007
Contact Information: Wichita Area Office (316) 269-6644
Links:

Partnership Agreement

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Oil and Gas Field Services Partnerships
Silica and Related Disease Emphasis Partnerships
 
Partnership Overview:
The Partnership between OSHA and the Kansas Contractors Association (KCA) encourages participants to develop and/or enhance their safety and health management systems. The Partnership also targets the four major construction hazards: falls, electrocutions, caught between/struck by, and trenching and excavation. The goal is to increase the number of construction companies that implement effective safety and health management systems as well as develop criteria for a model contractor safety and health management system.

Results:
This Partnership has facilitated dialog between OSHA, the Kansas Contractors Association, and its member contractors. As a result, OSHA now has an avenue to perform outreach and education on subjects such as record keeping and highway work zone safety.

Training sessions were conducted in 2005 which affected 503 employees and 139 supervisors/managers. The training sessions covered confined space, excavation, aerial lift, fall protection, and scaffold training in addition to OSHA 500 and 510 courses.

In 2005, a total of 2980 self-inspections were performed, uncovering 2050 hazards/violations that were corrected/abated.

The Partnership participants' total case rate was reduced from 6.42 in 2001, the first year of the Partnership, to 4.5 in 2004 which is below the baseline rate of 5.21. Also, the days away rate reduced from 4.36 in 2002 to 1.23 in 2004. The total case and days away three-year rates are both below the BLS National Averages for 2004.

Associated General Contractors (AGC) - St. Louis
#300
   
Partners: Building and Construction Trades Council; Carpenters' District Council of Greater St. Lois and Vicinity
Date Signed: October 2, 2003; Renewed October 5, 2006; Renewed December 3, 2009
Contact Information: St. Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Amputation Emphasis Partnerships
Construction Industry Partnerships
Ergonomics Emphasis Partnerships
 
Partnership Overview:
The purpose of this Partnership is to develop a St. Louis construction industry/labor/government collaboration that will encourage contractors in the city to improve their safety and health performance, assist them in their efforts, and recognize contractors with exemplary safety and health management systems. Five organizations around the St. Louis area have signed up for this effort. Ultimately, the Partnership will focus on the four most common hazards in the construction industry: falls, electrocutions, caught-between and struck-by injuries, and crushed-by-trenching and excavation operations.

Results:
At the end of 2009, there are 12 participants in the partnership. During the 2009 evaluation period participants have received approximately 41,350 hours of training, impacting 1,833 employees and 513 supervisors. The training reflected construction safety and health training, OSHA 10-hour training, as well as, soft tissue injury prevention trainings conducted by the Associated General Contractors (AGC) for their entire membership, including subcontractor performing work within the jurisdiction. In addition the participants conducted 9,353 self inspections. When comparing the AGC St. Louis Chapter participants 2009 rates versus the Construction Industry 2008 BLS data, the AGC participant TCIR is 54% and DART is 69% below.

Build Safe Partnership Program (BSPP)
#383
   
Partners: The Builders' Association
Date Signed: April 9, 2004; Renewed April 26, 2007
Contact Information: Kansas City Regional Office (816) 283-8745
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 
Partnership Overview:
The Build Safe Partnership Program (BSPP), after a successful 3-year renewal term, was renewed again for an additional 5 years in a ceremony held April 26, 2007. Signatories are The Builders' Association and OSHA's Kansas City Regional Office (Region VII), Kansas City Area Office, St. Louis Area Office Wichita Area Office, and Omaha Area Office. The Builders' Association, which is a chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC), represents union and non-union companies throughout Missouri and eastern Kansas, including some who operate in Nebraska.

The partnership, with 21 active participants at time of its second renewal, encourages contractors to voluntarily improve their safety and health performance by implementing effective safety and health management systems and effective safety and health training programs for management, supervisors, and employees. The goal of fatality, injury and illness reduction focuses on falls, struck-by, caught-in/between, and electrocutions at construction sites; and amputations, cuts, lacerations or punctures, lockout/tagout hazards, and machine guarding at the participants' fabrication shops.

Results:
The Days Away (DART) rate decreased 15.3% and the Total Recordable Injury Case Rate (TCIR) decreased 26.4% for the period 2003-2005 for the group of 22 contractors. In addition, the 2005 TCIR for the group was 32.5% below the BLS average rate for the construction industry. For calendar year 2005, there were no fatalities and only 52 lost-time accidents out of 12,539,883 manhours worked.
   
Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri
#407
   
Partners: Home Builders Association of St. Louis and Eastern Missouri, Carpenters' District Council
Date Signed: February 8, 2005; Renewed August 21, 2006
Contact Information: St. Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 
Partnership Overview:
The goal of this residential construction partnership between the Home Builders Association of Greater St. Louis and the St. Louis and Kansas City, MO Area Offices is to reduce the number and severity of injuries, illnesses and fatalities affecting participating contractors resulting from falls, struck-by, caught-in/between and electrocution hazards. It is also anticipated that there will be an increase in the number of participating members/employers who implement effective safety and health programs.

A key goal will be to help business develop safety and health programs that involve employers and workers in identifying and controlling hazards before they result in injuries. Under the terms of the partnership, contractors will put safety and health programs into action that require fall protection when employees perform work that is more than six feet above the lower level. The safety programs will enable workers and supervisors to recognize and abate safety and health hazards before work begins. Contractors must conduct regular job site inspections and train all workers on typical residential construction hazards.
 
Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Heart of America Chapter
#580
   
Partners: Associated Builders and Contractors Inc., Heart of America Chapter, Kansas City Area Office, St. Louis Area Office and Wichita Area Office
Date Signed: July 11, 2007; Renewed September 14, 2011
Contact Information: Wichita Area Office (316) 269-6644
Links:

Partnership Agreement

US Department of Labor's OSHA establishes safety and health partnership with Associated Builders and Contractors - Heart of America Chapter. OSHA News Release (2011, September 15).
Construction Industry Partnerships

 
Partnership Overview:
This OSHA Strategic Partnership (OSP) was first signed in July 2007 and renewed September 14, 2011. The OSP will focus on reducing the number and severity of injuries, illnesses and fatalities affecting participating contractors resulting from falls struck-by caught-in/between and electrocution hazards.

Boone Hospital Patient Tower
#686
   
Partners: Reinhardt\Wilson Joint Venture
Date Signed: September 26, 2008
Contact Information: Kansas City Area Office (816) 483-9531
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
Silica and Related Disease Emphasis Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
This OSHA Strategic Partnership (OSP) was formed to create a working relationship that will allow participants to promote safety and health during the construction of the new hospital patient tower The goals of the OSP are: to provide a safe and healthful work environment for employees involved in the construction industry; help prevent serious accidents and fatalities by addressing key hazards (falls, electrocution, caught between, and struck-by) through increased training, implementation of best work practices, recognized employers that develop and implement safety and health management systems and maintain a lost time incidence rate below the BLS national average without fatalities. The project is expected to be completed in March 2011.

Partnership Goals:

  • Reduce the aggregate Days away, Restricted and Transferred (DART) rate and aggregate Total Case Incident (TCIR) rate by 10 % below the previous three years aggregated rates, which was 1.7 and 3.6 respectively
  • Implement and maintain a Safety and Health Management Program in accordance OSHA 1989 guidelines
  • Increase training for participant’s employees

Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association-Kansas City Chapter
#738
   
Partners: Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association-Kansas City Chapter; International Association of Sheet Metal Workers, Local #2
Date Signed: September 28, 2009
Contact Information: Kansas City Area Office (816) 483-9531
Wichita Area Office (316) 269-6644
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The goal of the Work Safe Partnership Program II (WSPPII) is to improve the safety and health record of Contractor members of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association's, Kansas City Chapter (SMACNA-KC). To accomplish this goal, a cooperative partnership has been established between the SMACNA-KC, labor, and government that will encourage SMACNA members and their employees to improve their safety and health performance.

The partnership will qualify, monitor, and assist them in their efforts, and will recognize members who demonstrate exemplary safety and health performance as "the best of the best" in worker safety in western Missouri and Kansas. The partnership is to be conducted within the jurisdictional area of both the Kansas City and Wichita OSHA Area Offices.

Partnership Goals:
Some of the goals of the partnership include:

  • Periodic analysis of accident statistics of the partnership participating members; analysis of insurance industry loss ratios; and feedback from the different groups.
  • Evaluation of the Injury/Illness Incidence rates of participants. The primary incident rates used for evaluating the performance of contractors participating in this partnership will be both the Fatality Incidence Rate (FIR) and Days Away Case Rate (DACR). Each participating member's injury/illness and employee work hour data will be provided to OSHA on an annual basis for use in OSHA's required internal evaluation.
  • OSHA will also compute the Days Away, Restricted and Transferred rate (DART) and the Total Case Injury and Illness Rates (TCIIR) as part of the annual evaluation, but will not be used as a primary partnership measure as they can be elevated due to the presence of aggressive early return to work programs and medical reporting programs, which are designed to lower the costs of injuries and illnesses for both workers and the partner companies.

Ameren-Maryland Heights Landfill Gas to Energy Plant
#775
   
Partners: Green Companies Inc.
Date Signed: December 2, 2010
Contact Information: St Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

  • Partnership Agreement December 2, 2010

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
This partnership is for the construction of the Ameren-Maryland Heights Landfill Gas to Energy Plant in Maryland Heights, Missouri. The construction project will include grading, underground and aboveground utilities, industrial building complex, various types of process piping and equipment, electrical equipment, paving and landscaping. The partnership will remain in effect until completion. The partnership is supported by the Ameren Missouri, St. Louis Building and Construction Trades, Carpenters District Council and Eastern Missouri Laborers.

Partnership Goals:
The overall goal for the partnership is to promote effective safety management, training, job hazard recognition, hazard controls, self inspection practices, abatement efforts, accountability measures and cooperative attitudes among all partners resulting in the reduction/elimination of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project.


Irwin Army Community Hospital Replacement Project
#756
   
Partners: Balfour-Walton (Joint Venture), Kansas Department of Labor, Division of Industrial Safety and Health, and The Builders' Association
Date Signed: April 29, 2010
Contact Information: Wichita Area Office (316) 269-6644
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The Wichita Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); the Kansas On-Site Consultation program; Balfour-Walton; the Builders' Association and project subcontractors recognize the need for a safe and healthy jobsite. The goal of this partnership agreement is to help ensure that the Irwin Army Community Hospital Replacement Project will provide a safe work environment for all employees.

The Irwin Army Community Hospital Replacement consists of a four story hospital, five story medical clinic and central energy plant. The total square footage of the project is 550,659 with a scheduled completion date of August 2013.

This partnership is designed to not only address hazards within the construction industry, but also to promote and recognize those jobsites that have a demonstrated and effective safety and health program.

Partnership Goals:
Some of the goals of the partnership include:

  • Achieve a reduction of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project; zero fatalities
  • Develop a contractor/government partnership that will encourage involvement of the owner, construction manager 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)
  • Provide for worker involvement

Missouri Baptist Medical Center
#757
   
Partners: Clayco/Legacy (Joint Venture); Murphy Company; Sachs Electric
Date Signed: August 13, 2010
Contact Information: St Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The St. Louis Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, (OSHA), Clayco/Legacy Mo Bap 1, LLC, (Joint Venture) Murphy Company and Sachs Electric, project subcontractors, and labor organizations recognize the need for a safe and healthy jobsite and are entering into this partnership agreement to ensure the Missouri Baptist Medical Center will be a safe work environment for all employees. This partnership is designed not only to address the hazards within the construction industry, but also to promote and recognize jobsites that demonstrate an effective safety and health program.

The project will encompass the construction of a new eight level tower addition and a new four level parking garage at the BJC-Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Town and Country, Missouri. The project is expected to be complete by April 2014.

Partnership Goals:
The overarching goal for this partnership agreement is to promote effective safety management, training, job hazard recognition, hazard controls, self inspection practices, abatement efforts, accountability measures and cooperative attitudes among all partners resulting in the reduction/elimination of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project.

The specific goals of this partnership include:

  • Achieve a reduction of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project; zero fatalities
  • Develop a contractor/government partnership that will encourage involvement of the owner, construction manager and subcontractors in the improvement of safety and health performance
  • Implementing innovative strategies to eliminate serious accidents, including the four primary construction hazards (falls, struck-by, caught in, and electrical)
  • Provide for worker/union representation involvement

Route 141 Project
#776
   
Partners: Fred Weber, Inc.
Date Signed: August 31, 2010
Contact Information: St Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The St. Louis Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); Fred Weber, Inc.; and project subcontractors recognize the need for a safe and healthy jobsite. The goal of this partnership agreement is to help ensure that the construction of Route 141 south of Ladue Boulevard to Olive Boulevard will provide a safe work environment for all employees.

The Route 141 project is a combination project which includes grading, paving, bridges, and sound walls for relocating Route 141. The total length of improvement is 2.2 miles. The project also includes sewer relocation work to relocate Route 141. The total length of this improvement is 0.4 miles.

Partnership Goals:
The overall goal for this partnership agreement is to achieve a reduction of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project and zero fatalities.

The specific goals of this partnership include:

  • Achieve a reduction of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project; zero fatalities
  • Develop a contractor/government partnership that will encourage involvement of the 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)
  • Provide for worker/union representation involvement

Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies Plant
#777
   
Partners: JE Dunn Construction; Builders' Association and Missouri Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program
Date Signed: September 30, 2010
Contact Information: Kansas City Area Office (816) 483-9531
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The Kansas City Area Office of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, JE Dunn Construction, The Builders' Association, project subcontractors and Missouri Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program recognize the need for a safe and healthy jobsite. The goal of this partnership agreement is to help ensure that the Honeywell Plant Project will provide a safe work environment for all employees.

The project covers construction of a new manufacturing plant for Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies in Kansas City, Missouri. The construction project consists of approximately 1,540,000 square feet of office, manufacturing, and support facilities, a covered outdoor wareyard, a central plant, surface parking for a minimum of 2,200 vehicles, access roads, security perimeter, and landscaping on an approximately 185 acre site.

The anticipated completion date for the project is scheduled for January 2013.

Partnership Goals:
The overall goal for this Partnership Agreement is to realize, upon completion of the project, reduction of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project.

The specific goals of this partnership include:

  • Achieve a rate of accidents, injuries and illnesses on the project below the most current published BLS National Average for all of construction zero fatalities
  • Develop a contractor/government partnership that will encourage involvement of the owner, construction manager 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)
  • Provide for worker involvement

Mason Contractors Association of St Louis
#764
   
Partners: Masonry Contractor's Association of St. Louis
Date Signed: January 1, 2011
Contact Information: St Louis Area Office (314) 425-4249
Links:

Partnership Agreement

Construction Industry Partnerships
 

Partnership Overview:
The masonry industry is one of the largest users of scaffolding. As a result this Partnership will focus on fall hazards; electrocutions; caught-between and struck-by injuries and trenching and excavation operation.

With the help of the participating Union, The Mason Contractors Association and OSHA, the masonry industry will focus on its own safety concerns and strive for a zero rate of accidents. This would allow OSHA to leverage their resources by allowing their personnel to focus on other industries in need of their assistance.

The Mason Contractors Association of St. Louis has had a partnership with the St. Louis Area Office since May 16, 2003 and renewing that partnership on March 1, 2007. From 2003 through the end of 2009, the Association has reduced its DART rate by 51 percent.

Partnership Goals:
The overall goal of the partnership is to reduce the injuries/illnesses reported by 10 percent by the end of the third year.

The specific goals of this partnership include:

  • The goal of this partnership is to reduce the injuries/illnesses reported to an aggregate rate that is below the BLS average and by 10 percent by the end of the third year.
  • Management Commitment and Employee Participation
  • Job-Site Analysis
  • Hazard Prevention and Control
  • Training
  • Provide for worker involvement