The Contractor Coaching Partnership Blog

Region 1 OSHA is actively pursuing and fining contractors in Massachusetts for fall protection violations. The following enforcement action was against a roofing contractor in Reading, Mass. working in Topsfield. Read the OSHA press release below, notice the violations cited and then determine if you would be subject to being fined if OSHA came to your job site. All of the violations are covered in our comprehensive fall protection training workshop.

A recent insurance claim did not include the costs for OSHA Fall Protection for my contractor client. The claims adjuster carried two ladders and a plank in his claim estimate to do a 30 square roof on a 2 story colonial. He either did not know how to properly assess staging or he did know and tried to get away with excluding it.

Contractors are telling us RRP costs on pre 1978 homes are not being paid by insurance adjusters on properties damaged by fire, water or storms. Insurance companies and their adjusters are trying to get away with not covering legitimate RRP costs on claims. Many are claiming ignorance or are claiming it is included in the square foot costs of their estimating program.

Not RRP certified yet, no problem come to the JLC Live Trade Show in March in Providence, Rhode Island.

Many of you know I am a big supporter of Eastern Mass NARI and being a member of a contractor trade organization. NARI is a great organization for remodelers and trades to meet with their peers and learn from one another. How about winning a job because you are a member of EMNARI?

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Most contractors are unaware that OSHA extended its Region 1 (Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) Local Emphasis Program for Fall Protection until September 30, 2015.

The Mass DOLS has just released a list of contractors and property management firms fined for violations of the Mass RRP Lead Law. One contractor was fined $9,750.00. The companies are from different areas of the state. We have received reports from contractors of enforcement from all over the state however up until this posting there was no posted accounts. A frequent question in our RRP Training Classes is that there is no enforcement on RRP. Other comments include how come there are so many contractors not following the RRP Law?

A new press release from OSHA was published last week urging employers to protect their workers during winter storms. We all remember the snow and ice form last year when we were shoveling off roofs everywhere in the northeast.

Ring's End Lumber in Stratford Connecticut has scheduled an OSHA Fall Protection Training on 1/12/2012. This training is designed to help residential builders, remodelers, roofer, painters, framers, siding, gutters and trade contractors comply with the OSHA Fall Protection Standard. The fall protection standard is in full effect and contractors were suppose to be complinat no later than 9/16/2011.