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January 30 2022 Vol. XXIII • No. 3
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California to Spend $2B On Port Projects...8
NMDOT Celebrates Completion of Project On I-25...14
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Son Returns Home to Help Build Family Business...36
Table of Contents ................4
Will You Be Left Holding the Bag?
Aggregate & Recycling Section..........................17-23
OSHA Specifies Contractor Safety Responsibilities On Job Site
Attachments & Parts Section ......................................30-35
By Lucy Perry
Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................37-39 Auction Section ...........44-51 Business Calendar.............48 Advertisers Index ..............50
Who does OSHA look to first when multiple contractors are at work on a job site where safety is called into question? If your company has any control over the work process, the agency’s Multi-Employer Worksite Policy specifies that the responsibility likely falls on you. Have you done everything you could to prevent an accident? OSHA uses the policy to assess responsibility on a construction site where there are likely many different companies at many different contract levels. The four employer categories are creating contractor, exposing CEG CORRESPONDENT
contractor, fixing contractor and controlling contractor. As the name implies, the creating contractor creates a hazard resulting in an incident or accident. The exposing contractor puts his or her employees in harm’s way whether they created the hazard or not. The fixing contractor, who may or may not be the creating contractor, is responsible for fixing the safety violation. Finally, the controlling contractor holds contracts with and has authority over the contractors on site. “An exception may come when a creating contractor has already demobilized from the site, and the correction see OSHA page 16