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Engineering News-Record
Federal safety officials have added, through mid-April, 21 new construction-industry cases to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Severe Violators Enforcement Program, according to a tabulation made by ENR.
About 60 percent of the 520 or so companies that OSHA has placed in the program are construction-related, reports Business Insurance, an industry publication. Listing in the program subjects employers to stepped-up inspections and enforcement. OSHA also issues critical press releases about the companies in the program, a practice some employer attorneys have described as public shamings.
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HRDive
Many employers implement post-accident drug and alcohol testing policies to promote workplace safety, as part of accident investigation efforts, and in the hope of reducing workplace accidents and workers' compensation claims.
But for those employers, the legal landscape may have shifted on May 12 when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration published its final rule on electronic reporting of workplace injuries and illnesses.
According to Dale Deitchler, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, the employment law firm, the new rule increases an employer's obligation to ensure that employees report work-related injuries and illnesses.
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Forbes
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Safety + Health Magazine
Critics of OSHA's recently released recordkeeping rule, which would make worker injury and illness data public, voiced their concerns during a May 25 hearing convened by the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee.
The rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, was published May 11. It states that establishments with 250 or more workers must electronically submit to OSHA – on an annual basis – information from their OSHA Forms 300, 300A and 301. Establishments with 20 to 249 workers in certain high-hazard industries will have to submit information from their annual summary form, OSHA Form 300A. The agency will then make information available on its website in a searchable database.
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For Construction Pros
No matter how perfectly you set up your business, two things will rise up and create headaches every now and then: the economy and your people.
The economy is the economy. You have no control over the volume and quality of construction opportunities that are available at any point in time. Heck, even the Fed has limited control over that. The most control you will have is to establish yourself as the low cost provider for the customers you pursue and maintain a financial nest egg that you can draw on when the work dries up for several months.
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By Julie Bernhard
 Mature roommates, renting the second floor, living in mom's basement — call it what you want — but millennials are doing more of it. Living with your parents is no longer seen as the last option on your post-collegiate journey — it is now looking like one of the frontrunners. According to new research, millennials are more likely to live with their parents than with a spouse or partner. Since when did it become cool to go back to the roost? Economic and social factors both play a part in this culture shift.
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Entrepreneur
The content of your email message is important, but your design is the first element that recipients will see. If you want readers to see your message instead of clicking to the next email, it's essential to please their eyes and pique their curiosity. Here are a few keys to a winning email design.
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Quartz
The evidence is piling up.
The latest indicator comes from the updated US GDP numbers published this morning, which showed the US growing at a faster-than-first-reported 0.8 percent clip in the first quarter. They show residential investment in things like homebuilding and renovation rising at an annual pace of more than 17 percent, a reading that would have put it among the hottest moments during the pre-crisis housing boom.
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