Our region is blessed with two of the most active and
engaged safety oriented organizations for construction safety, the Delaware
Valley Safety Council and the Mid-Atlantic Construction Safety Council. If you aren’t taking advantage of the numerous
offerings that they provide to our regional employers and the industry, you are
missing out at the expense of organizational safety.
Here are just two examples of what’s going on this month:
The Delaware Valley Safety Council (DVSC) has scheduled a
Certified Occupational Safety Specialist (COSS) training class for the week of
May 12, 2014. The class will be held at DVSC's New Jersey facility located at
Gloucester County College Continuing Education Center, 1492 Tanyard Road,
Sewell, NJ 08080. The price for the course, including all books, materials and
a Friday lunch, is $1,999.
Reservations can be made online at the DVSC website
www.dvsconline.org by clicking "COSS Orientation" in the main page
slideshow. Inquiries can be directed to DVSC Executive Director, Brian
McClafferty at (302) 736-1986; or to DVSC Administrator, Jeri Radio at (856)
558-8797.
The Mid-Atlantic Construction Safety Council (MACSC) had decided
to make January 2014 a Fall Protection Equipment Inspection month-long stand
down. All personal fall arrest system equipment including body harnesses,
lanyards, beam straps, retractable lanyards, and associated devices would be
inspected and equipment that did not pass inspection would be removed from use. To support this effort, the construction managers
asked fall protection manufacturers to provide training and develop checklists
prior to conducting the equipment inspections so that the process would be
uniform among all the sites.
The data from the January, 2014 event was as follows:
10 Construction Managers Reporting
60 jobsites
236 Contractors
1,161 participants
2,695 pieces of personal fall arrest equipment inspected
498 pieces of personal fall arrest equipment removed from
service
As a follow-up to that event, the Mid-Atlantic Construction
Safety Council has declared May as a SAFETY MONTH for the Greater Philadelphia Region. Read more about this event, the follow-up event
in May and where and other related resources here…
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