To comply with OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard, your company must establish a safety program to protect workers who may be exposed to chemical substances. MCAA’s Model Hazard Communication Program can be quickly tailored to create your program.

Making sure that current Safety Data Sheets (SDS) are readily accessible to workers at all times is easy with electronic access to SDS BinderWorks.

If you have any questions about these resources, or about other occupational safety and health issues, please contact Pete Chaney.

We are headed towards a crucial labor shortage in the building trades industry.  In fact, it is already apparent in many parts of the country—but there are things that can be done to combat it, and it starts with a shift in your mindset on how to tackle recruiting.

Forward-thinkers Tim Herbert, UA Lead Organizer, Washington State Pipe Trades and Josh Windy, UA Organizer, Michigan Pipe Trades, will be joining us in Huntington Beach, CA at this year’s MSCA18 educational conference to share the steps they’ve taken to address this issue in their area in a creative and successful way. This talk will include new perspectives on ways to find and contact potential recruits as well as the importance of creating and fostering long-term, on-going relationships with those considering a career in the HVACR industry. You will learn about a new interactive database they created to help track and maintain contacts; and how local contractors are involved and engaged in the process. This session will provide you with a fresh outlook on recruiting and provide you with the tools you need to ensure you are attracting the best talent to fulfill your manpower needs.

OSHA’s Confined Spaces in Construction standard requires that your company establish a safety program to protect workers who work in or near confined spaces. MCAA’s Model Permit-Required Confined Space Program for Construction can be quickly and easily tailored to create your program.

If you have any questions about this publication, or about other occupational safety and health issues, please contact Pete Chaney.

Imagine what you could accomplish if you could decode the mystery of human behavior and truly understand what makes people do what they do and say what they say (including yourself!) Award-winning author of seven books and human relations expert Connie Podesta will join us in Huntington Beach, CA at the MSCA18 educational conference and show why #1 key to SUCCESS is the ability to get along with other people both at work and at home. Her message will both challenge and empower you with the knowledge you need to get along better with all the people in your life.

Connie’s emphasis on the value of long term results rather than more quick fixes will help you implement strategies that will make a lasting impact on your daily interactions with others. She will take participants right inside the minds and personalities of the people they encounter every day–bosses, colleagues, partners, customers, friends, and family– so you can act, rather than react, to whatever life throws your way!

MCAA recently released a new safety training video, Aerial Lift Safety – Safe Practices for Scissors and Boom Lift Work. The new video replaces the Aerial and Scissors Lifts Safety Training Video that was previously available from MCAA.

The video will help your workers understand:

• The significance of aerial lift load capacities
• How to properly inspect and function test lifts before use
• What to do when there is a problem with a lift
• The appropriate fall prevention and protection requirements for the two different types of lifts
• Safe operating procedures

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Accompanying materials are also available to assist you in highlighting key training points, documenting worker training and confirming that workers understand the training concepts. Like the video, these new materials replace the ones associated with MCAA’s Aerial and Scissors Lifts Safety Training Video.

Highlight key training points

Download the Pocket Guide

Document worker training

Download the Documentation Sheet

Confirm that workers understand the training concepts

Download the Test

Download the Test Answer Key

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.

Visit the Resource Center

Have questions or need personal assistance?

Contact MCAA’s Pete Chaney.

Energy efficiency, comfort, and productivity are the top focus for most high-performance buildings, according to Dick Starr, senior account executive, Enterprise HVAC Service & Control, Twinsburg, Ohio and former chairman of the MSCA Board of Managers.

In a high-performance building, system integration is key. A balance between productivity, safety, good health, and energy efficiency is imperative. Failure to maintain one component may prevent the entire system from performing optimally.

With an emphasis on system v. equipment, these high-performance buildings differ from most other commercial buildings, where the focus tends to land more on a ‘break/fix’ mentality and focus only on basic wear and tear maintenance. With the equipment running independently of each other maintaining one part will not impact another.

Since high-performance buildings are normally ‘owner-occupied’ facilities, according to Starr, he believes that building and maintaining trust between the building owner and HVAC service provider is key to developing best practices and creating a successful strategic plan. Each building is unique and requires a different maintenance program to operate at its highest potential.

Read the full article from theNews and learn more on how to create a maintenance program that will result in higher performing systems, please click here.

Looking to grow your company’s vision? Curious about best practices in deploying mobile devices? Needing ideas on how to increase your customer retention? Or have questions about building data analysis? We’ve got you covered.

This year’s MSCA education conference in Huntington Beach, CA will feature two sessions of peer group forums.  Always one of our most popular conference events, these peer group forums provide a unique opportunity to discuss current topics and concerns with your peers and top leaders in the field. Each of these interactive sessions are lead by a leader in the industry and will focus on a single topic in order to provide an opportunity to dive into an in-depth conversation amongst the entire group. This collaborative environment is a valuable way to share and learn from other’s successes and setbacks and launch your business ahead of the competition. We will be talking about technological innovations on both the hardware and software side as well as discussing struggles and sharing best practices on how to deal with the new realities in our field, to name a few. With more than seventeen topics to choose from, including water management programs, service training, sales, succession planning and empowering techs, there’s no doubt that you’ll be leaving with invaluable knowledge and resources to help advance your business.

Be on the lookout mid-September for instructions on how to sign-up for the topics that interest you!