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Safety Tips to Keep the Construction Workforce Healthy

COVID-19 has had a major impact on the country, and businesses are feeling the hit as quarantines, and social distancing measures continue to affect the U.S. economy. Many companies have instructed those who can to work remotely, moved to limited operations, or even closed their doors to mitigate the spread of this virus. As construction professionals, however, the work we do has been deemed essential during the current crisis, keeping the construction workforce viable to support emergency construction requirements, but also leaving them at potential risk. 

Need Help Setting Up a Quality Control Plan?

Construction Quality Control Plans (QCPs) are essential to all construction projects helping ensure that the project will be finished, not only in a timely manner, but also in adherence to stringent contractual specifications. 

Need Help Setting Up an Environmental Protection Plan?

Environmental Protection Plans (EPP) are one of the construction contractor’s first administrative hurdles before work can begin on a project. In recent years, Federal projects have become increasingly focused on environmental protection, and with good reason. The purpose of an EPP is to outline the mitigation measures, contingency plans, and emergency procedures required to protect the environment in proximity to a job site. Compiling this document can be extremely time-consuming as managers aim to comprehensively address every unique facet of the project.

Gadzoom: What’s Trending in Construction March 2020

Our monthly “What’s Trending in Construction” blog has been a big hit with our readers, so we’re back again with our March edition! For those of you who are here for the first time, welcome. 

Here at Gadzoom, we pride ourselves on staying on top of the latest industry news. As part of that process, we like to take our five favorite articles each month and share them with our audience. 

Need Help Setting Up an Accident Prevention Plan (APP)?

An Accident Prevention Plan (APP) is one of the first key documents to complete when starting up a new project. Employee safety comes first and a properly written APP outlines how managers and stakeholders are going to successfully manage safety requirements for all aspects of the project.  An Accident Prevention Plan, however, requires a lot of work and research to effectively address all required activities, both individually and collectively. It’s that excessive amount of time most construction management professionals spend doing the mundane job of pushing paper instead of doing something more productive. Valuable hours that are lost forever, which ultimately hurts the company’s bottom line.