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Fed watchdog wants DoD to have better insight into contractors’ safety records

April 2, 2019 By Andrew Smith

The U.S. Government Accountability Office, a congressional “watchdog,” has issued recommendations to the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA and the Department of Defense aimed at helping them better track defense contractor safety violations. GAO was tasked with reviewing safety and health records of contractors and how they were handled by DoD, the largest contracting agency in the government, with $320 billion in contracts in 2017.

The GAO report noted that OSHA’s inspection data does not include a corporate identification number, which means “website users will likely have difficulty obtaining accurate information on individual companies’ previous violations,” such as whether the violations occurred on defense projects. DoD also may be missing opportunities to consider a company’s safety performance when awarding contracts, it continued, because only a few parts of the agency rate contractors in this category.

GAO recommends that OSHA consider requiring a corporate identification number as part of the information it collects during an inspection, and that DoD officials use OSHA’s website to find contractor safety information and consider requiring a safety performance rating for contractors engaging in construction and other risky types of work.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/fed-watchdog-wants-dod-to-have-better-insight-into-contractors-safety-reco/550792/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: contract compliance, contractor performance, DoD, DOL, GAO, Labor Dept., OSHA, safety, safety violation, US DOL

Women are the solution to the construction industry’s labor shortage

November 14, 2018 By Andrew Smith

Megan Ross is an assistant superintendent for a large Maryland-based general contractor.  Ross, a former architecture major, had realized she’d rather build structures than design them, and is now on construction sites every day, coordinating subcontractors and monitoring the progress of jobs.

At her first position out of college, she earned a salary of over $50,000; two years later she says, “I have friends in architecture who are making half of that.”  The work is a joy, she says. “It’s one of the best careers you can have.”

Ross is part of an overlooked group that, with some assistance, could easily solve the construction industry’s labor shortage: women. Currently, women make up less than 3 percent of the construction workforce, which includes the building trades—hands-on jobs like carpentry, bricklaying, and electrical work—as well as management. If twice as many women worked in the field, the industry’s labor shortage would, according to data available from the U.S. Department of Labor, practically be wiped out.

And finding a solution to the ongoing worker shortage is crucial.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.curbed.com/2018/11/5/18065266/construction-industry-labor-shortage-women

Filed Under: Contracting Tips Tagged With: construction, labor, Labor Dept., labor shortage, US DOL, women, workforce

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