• Emotional Safety Drives Employee Engagement Higher0

    By Dale Carnegie staff Why Emotions Matter Today companies rely increasingly on big data and algorithms to make decisions, allowing them to maximize operational efficiency and improve the customer experience, sometimes in real time. But, as of yet, humans don’t have that logic-only option for most of our decisions because “many of the criteria are

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  • Maintain COVID-19 Plans as the Pandemic Changes Course0

    By Kevin McMahon, AIHA Construction Committee AIHA publication remains a valuable blueprint for meeting the COVID challenge Now that vaccines are widely available and COVID-19 cases are substantially lower, construction companies should re-evaluate their COVID-19 plans to be consistent with CDC and OSHA guidelines, which are frequently updated as the re-opening continues and the pandemic

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  • Keep Your Eye on the Why and the How0

    Lumber prices hit an all-time high of $1,686 per thousand board feet in May, an increase of 406% from the $333 it was trading at the same time last year. So…as a lumber company, how do you adjust? And what’s causing the shortage? I chatted with Neil Agarwal and Kaitlin Krasic at G.E. Frisco, an

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  • President’s Letter – June 20210

    Dear ASA Members, Wow, what a year! I believe it goes without saying that this past year has been unlike any we have ever experienced. Having this opportunity to serve as your ASA President was a bit frightening for me at first. I have never been a public speaker and I think so highly of

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  • How digital checklists help you keep your eye on safety0

    By Rebekah Veldhuizen, Raken Every jobsite presents its own unique hazards and risks—hazards that construction crews are trained to recognize and handle. But with so much happening on a jobsite, checklists are invaluable. Is the crew positive that signage has been posted to keep workers out of hazardous areas? Have all electrical hazards been addressed?

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  • ASA/AGC Podcast0

    May 27, 2021 Jordan Howard, Director of the Federal and Heavy Construction Division at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), is interviewed by Mike Oscar, Government Relations Director for the American Subcontractors Association. They discuss how they work together to educate and inform Congress on important matters critical to the construction industry.READ MORE