Masonry Magazine December 2007 Page. 30
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"A lot of contractors want to be safe and want to implement a program, but they have no idea how to get started."
Rashod R. Johnson
President of The Roderick Group Inc.
"It's going to save you money," says Bill Pacetti, company president and software developer. "Eliminating one mistake is going to save you the cost of our program. You can do a visual tour [and] a walk through of a building before it's even built."
"After the job is awarded to you, you can use the program as a teaching tool," he says. "Bring in the foreman and look at the way the project will look before one brick is laid on the job. The foreman sees how the project is going to look. He's seeing all of this not from a blueprint, but from a virtual program. Some people say a picture's worth a thousand words. I say a picture could be worth thousands and thousands of saved dollars."
Teaching tool for safety
THE MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA'S MCAA Safety Software, a computerized program that helps contractors implement an employee health and safety program that complies with current OSHA regulations, is also a teaching tool. The software teaches masonry contractors how to set up a safety program.
Basic Safety Program
"If you are a contractor who doesn't have a safety program, the first thing you can do to come up with a safety program is get the software," says Rashod R. Johnson, president of The Roderick Group Inc., a building codes and standards consulting firm in Chicago. "The software will, in essence, help them start a program."
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Johnson, who helped write the MCAA software and currently consults with MCAA on safety and regulations, says insurance companies want to see that masonry firms have a safety program in place before offering them insurance or giving them a better rate.
"A lot of contractors want to be safe and want to implement a program, but they have no idea how to get started," he says. "We wanted to make the software as basic and easy to use as possible, and I think we achieved that goal."
Every employee has to have a basic understanding of safety issues on masonry jobsites, he says. "First and foremost, the goal is to keep the workers safe."
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OSHA forms made easy
FIRSTREPORT SOFTWARE INC., in Hickory, N.C., and J.J. Keller & Associates Inc., in Neenah, Wis, both offer software for filling out OSHA 300 logs, 300A summaries, 301 incident reports, and first report of injury forms.
"The 301 report tells OSHA everything they are entitled to know," says John Gellman, owner of FirstReport. "It's very important to have this paperwork; it's like having your license and registration if you get pulled over by the police while driving. Without it, they can ruin your day."
Pre-formatted reports let users view injuries by categories,
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28 Masonry
December 2007
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