MCAA has been working with the Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR), the United Association (UA), and Washington University in St. Louis to develop and produce ergonomics resources for the construction industry. Our September 26, 2019 webinar, which is free to members, will show you how to create an effective ergonomics program to reduce the occurrence of soft tissue injuries among mechanical construction workers. MCAA believes that effective ergonomics programs are critical in our industry, especially since more than half our workforce is 45 years old or older. In this webinar you’ll learn about two sets of new ergonomics resources, which will be made available to members for free through MCAA’s website. One set teaches contractors how to establish effective ergonomics programs for their companies. The other set is for training our worker about effective ergonomics in construction.  To access the webinar, visit the link below. If you prefer to access the audio by telephone, please call 415-655-0003. The access code is 661 495 207.

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Have you ever wished that safety training was as easy as selecting the topic, presenting it, and following up? It can be, with MCAA’s Toolbox Safety Talks for Mechanical Construction Contractors – Volume III. This resource includes 52 talks, everything you need for a year of weekly worker safety training without the stress of having to prepare the training from scratch.

Topics covered include:

• Hazard communication
• Respiratory protection
• Hearing conservation
• Welding hazards
• Vehicle safety and maintenance
• First aid and health issues
• Materials handling

Additional training topics emphasize why training is so important and provide tools like a personal safety checklist to help ensure that workers are on the lookout for all potential safety hazards.

Instructions and a worker safety training documentation sheet are included to further simplify the process.

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Want even more safety resources?

MCAA has you covered, with a full range of resources to help you protect your workers from injury and comply with applicable safety regulations. Here’s where to find them:

On our Direct Links to MCAA & MSCA Safety Resources page, where they’re listed by category with links.

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In the Resource Center, where you can use the blue Refine Your Search bar to pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for.

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Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

In their fast-paced jobs, it’s easy for field leaders to feel isolated. The Field Leaders Conference will transform their perspective by enabling them to share stories and challenges—as well as solutions— with jobsite leaders from outside of their area. By participating in discussions and interactive exercises as a team, they will develop a group of contacts they can call upon when they’re up against a tough challenge. Take it from Jeff Ranke of Smith & Oby, “I am so glad I was sent to the Philly Field Leaders Conference. I needed this. Very helpful. Great speakers. I took a lot from this. Nice to know I’m not alone.” Choose your preferred city for details – it’s the same education.

It’s no accident that job hazard analyses (JHA) are required by many construction owners, GCs, CMs, and government agencies. These analyses help significantly reduce the risk of workplace incidents that could result in injury or property damage, thus reducing cost. Whether you’re developing a JHA to meet a requirement, or as part of your company’s standard process, this resource gives you a head start.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Information to help you identify the jobs that require hazard analysis
• Guidance on developing JHAs for your projects
• A sample JHA that uses the hazards and safe work practices outlined in the guide
• A list of job components, along with the associated hazards and safe work practices for each, that can be easily plugged into your JHA

Using these tools and guidelines will save you time and make the JHA development process easier and more cost-effective than starting from scratch.

Many in the field may not realize how their daily job impacts the people they work with and the bottom line. At the MCAA Field Leaders Conference, your field team can benefit from the know-how of someone who has experienced it all in The Foreman’s Impact on Profitability session led by MCAA member Mark Rogers. Rogers began his career as a Steamfitter Apprentice in 1986 with Local 420 in Philadelphia, went on to start his own mechanical contracting company in 1996 and served as MCAA President in 2011. He volunteers around the country presenting his “Real Cost of a Man Hour” and has given the talk over 125 times to over 20,000 UA Members. Rogers is passionate about education for everyone in the industry and tailored his presentation at the Field Leaders Conference specifically so those in the field can better understand and appreciate their overall role and impact on a job. Register your field personnel today! This is a conference you can’t afford them to miss.

As more contractors use BIM in virtual design and construction, they are faced with many limitations, including no drawing standards, a lack of drawing content specific to manufacturers, software systems that don’t connect and no easy way to estimate shop hours versus field hours. The goal of MCAA’s WebLEM+Plus is to become a single solution to all of these challenges.

When the WebLEM+Plus is released soon, you will find a complete buildout of the Work Activity Method Labor Units (over 100,000 labor units are being added to the LEM) which allow contractors to specifically identify shop and field labor separately.

You will also find features in this release which allow each manufacturers and drawing content providers to attach their drawing content (.ITM and RFA), technical data, pictures of the product, item weight, etc. to each and every labor unit.

When the WebLEM+Plus website is released, be sure to keep coming back to the site as we work with manufacturers to get their information connected and available to you.

We’re also making it easier for software partners and all MCAA members to connect to our data by providing APIs for our software partners to use, and by making our unique data identifier available for our contractors to download and be the central data key that connects all of the software systems they use.

And, we’ve published the first ever drawing content standard to help all industry partners work together better.

MCAA contractors will soon have a single source for all of their needs and it’s the WebLEM+Plus. So, stay tuned! We’ll keep you updated!