Spring 2007
- Message from the Co-Chairmen (Spring, 2007)
- Health Promotion: Help for Laborers and their Health & Welfare Plans
- Help for Laborers and their Health & Welfare Plans
- Nutrition and Fitness for Laborers
- Helping Laborers Get the Substance Abuse Treatment They Need
- Drug-Free Workplace initiatives
- LaboreRx - Lower Drug Costs and Better Service
- Get That Annual Check-Up
- Occupational Safety & Health: Safety Consultants for Labor and Management
- 'Best Practice' Seminars Reach Out to Contractors
- Laborers' True Stories
- Regulatory Work
- OSHA May Address Portland Cement Hazard
- ANSI to Adopt Hearing Conservation Standard
- Preventing Backovers in Work Zones
- LIUNA Funds, Allies Target Work Zone Safety
- Safety Committees: Safer Workplaces and Reduced Workers Comp Premiums
- Health and Safety in Canada
- www.LHSFNA.org: The Fund's Communications Hub
Published: Spring, 2007; Vol 9, Num 1
‘Best Practice’ Seminars
Reach Out to Contractors
Reach Out to Contractors
A new communications effort that gained momentum in 2006 was the Division’s collaboration with LIUNA partners in safety seminars aimed at LIUNA signatory contractors. The Southern Nevada LECET co-sponsored one in Las Vegas in October and its success should spur similar events around the country next year. The Nevada event followed a similar seminar last spring in Rhode Island that was sponsored by the New England Laborers’ Training Trust Fund and Local Union #271.
“LIUNA has many big signatories, but most of our contractors are smaller companies that don’t have the resources to hire full-time safety consultants,” says OSH Senior Safety and Health Specialist Travis Parsons. “We know good safety and health programs can help them save money, retain workers and enhance their reputations, but they don’t have an easy way to get the information they need. The best practices seminars turned out to be a really effective way to connect with these folks.”
The half-day seminars featured a number of short presentations about key safety practices or about products and services available through the participating sponsors. Parsons represented the Fund at both events. OSHA, LIUNA leaders and training centers and corporate sponsors also participated.
“Too many union contractors don’t know very much about the Fund or what it and the other Tri-Funds can do to help them out,” says LHSFNA Management Co-Chairman Noel C. Borck. “Plus, they’re busy, under pressure to finish one job while trying to find time to bid on the next. Our experience this year shows that these seminars are an excellent way to mobilize and engage contractors. They can fit them into their busy schedules and they fill a real need.”