The Magazine of the Keystone Contractors Association Summer 2023 Prioritizing Employee Happiness A Major General’s Perspective on Leadership Positive of Your Drug Policy? Worker Re-entry Success SUMMER SHORTS
Howard Bernstein President, Keystone Contractors Association
Over the course of my career, I have worked for companies ranging from small family-run businesses to a Fortune 500 company that presently has 340,000 employees. I have had a boss and mentor who worked into his 90s, and I presently work with individuals ranging from heir early 20s to mid 60s to some READ MORE >>>
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This year’s Construction Opioid Awareness Week is July 24 – 28 Have you ever felt like you’ve gone back in time? Or that someone hit the rewind button on you? That’s how I feel when I look at the opioid issue and its impact on the construction industry.
In 2016, the Keystone Contractors Association conducted a needsassessment of Pennsylvania’s construction industry. Concerning READ MORE >>>
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Jon O’Brien, Keystone Contractors Association
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Prioritizing Employee Happiness
It’s not an exaggeration to say that construction workers put their lives on the line every day. The industry has devoted a great deal of effort to curtailing the so-called “Fatal Four” hazards – falls, strikes by objects, electrocution, and getting caught in or between dangerous places or things. However, the construction industry is not immune READ MORE >>>
A Major General’s Perspective on Leadership Q&A with Retired Major General John Gronski
There may be a shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry, but there is no shortage of advice on how construction companies can retain institutional knowledge by pairing industry veterans with young professionals. In fact, the Construction Management Association of America has an online guide that can help contractors create an entire plan of action for setting up a mentorship program, complete with best practices for READ MORE >>>
Positive of Your Drug Policy?
All it takes is a cursory glance at an active construction site to see how inherently dangerous this line of work can be. The federal government agrees, as construction tops the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ list of most dangerous jobs. It’s a fast-paced industry that can entail everything from operating heavy equipment and hazardous chemicals to working at extreme heights. One wrong move can literally be a matter of life and death. READ MORE >>>
Worker Re-entry Success
A common gripe throughout the construction industry is that contractors can’t find, reach, hire, and train workers quickly enough to keep up with demand. However, as some companies are discovering, there is an opportunity to bridge that workforce gap through worker re-entry programs. These programs, often associated with employing formerly incarcerated individuals and other people looking to reenter the workforce, are also instrumental in READ MORE >>>
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