OSHA AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCE
Mitigate Risk: Effective Strategies for Employers
By Justin Kaplan, Esq.
“Hey, how you doing?” engineer Joseph Scott asked coworker and fellow engineer DeWayne Craddock in the...
Workforce Development Assessment Tool
In the modern construction industry, finding and retaining a sufficient number of reliable, skilled workers proves to be an ongoing challenge faced by many...
Tools of the Trade: Part 1 of 2
Success in any construction project requires having the right tools for the job. While most construction industry professionals know the tools of their own...
OSHA Releases Fall Protection Revisions for General Industry
On November 18, 2016, OSHA published a final rule on Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Fall Protection Systems (29 CFR 1910 Subpart D&I) that takes...
Ransomware Alert
By Christopher Scott D’Angelo
Many contractors and other businesses do not even think about it and if they do, they think it is something only...
Droning On
By Christopher S. Drewry and Jeffrey M. Kraft
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)—more commonly referred to as drones—have seen rapid growth in use across a variety...
How to Make a Bad Situation Worse
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. In a recent...
Have our Contracts Become too One-Sided?
Times have changed. We all recognize it. They have changed in the way we interact with people, in the way we do business, engage...
The Signed Change Order
A common dispute handled by construction attorneys is the contractor or subcontractor attempting to recover for change order work when there is no written,...
Big Impacts
In March of this year, an unimaginable disaster unfolded in Baltimore Harbor as a massive cargo ship brought down the 47-year-old Francis Scott Key...









