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Svensson Tengberg, Charlotte, and Carl-Eric Hagentoft. "Risk Assessment Framework to Avoid Serial Failure for New Technical Solutions Applied to the Construction of a CLT Structure Resilient to Climate." Buildings 11, no. 6 (June 9, 2021): 247. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11060247.
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Design-build contractors are challenged with the task of minimizing failure risks when introducing new technical solutions or adapting technical solutions to new conditions, e.g., climate change. They seem to have a disproportional trust in suppliers and their reference cases and might not have adequate resources or methodologies for sufficient evaluation. This creates the potential for serial failures to spread in the construction industry. To mitigate this, it was suggested that a predefined risk assessment framework should be introduced with the aim of providing a prequalification and requirements for the use of the technical solution. The objectives of this paper are to develop a comprehensive risk assessment framework and to explore the framework’s potential to adequately support the design-build contractor’s decisions. The framework uses qualitative assessment, relying on expert workshops and quantitative assessments, with a focus on simulation and probabilities. Tollgates are used to communicate risk assessments to the contractor. The framework is applied to a real-life case study of construction with a CLT-structure for a Swedish design-build contractor, where exposure to precipitation during construction is a key issue. In conclusion, the chosen framework was successful in a design-build contractor context, structuring the process and identifying difficulties in achieving the functional requirements concerning moisture. Three success factors were: documentation and communication, expert involvement, and the use of tollgates. Recommendations to the design-build contractor on construction of CLT structure are to keep construction period short and to use full weather protection on site.
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Slabbert, Magda, and Hendrik Pienaar. "Using a Locum Tenens in a Private Practice." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 16, no. 4 (May 17, 2017): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2013/v16i4a2385.
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Many medical practitioners in private practice use a locum tenens when they themselves are not available to practice. The locums are often appointed without consideration of the legal consequences or requirements. Legislation distinguishes between an employee and an independent contractor. If the locum is appointed as an employee the doctrine of vicarious liability comes into play which is not the case with an independent contractor. Contracts currently available to appoint a locum give the contracting parties a choice between being appointed as an employee or an independent contractor; this should be changed in that all locums should be appointed as independent contractors especially if the working of the Consumer Protection Act is also taken into consideration. Furthermore, according to the rules of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) the onus to ensure that the locum tenens is registered and fit to practice, rests with the principal
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Strakhov, A. F. "ASPECTS OF PROTECTION OF DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE’S RIGHTS TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ITEMS." Issues of radio electronics, no. 6 (June 20, 2018): 75–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.21778/2218-5453-2018-6-75-81.
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When performing research, development, and engineering (RD&E) financed using state, regional, or municipal budget funds, legal relations between a customer and a RD&E contractor with regard to ownership of a created intellectual property are regulated by Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation [1]. The intellectual property includes patentable innovative solutions which are qualified as intellectual property items. According to the applicable legal standards and law enforcement practice, patent protection obligations with regard to the created intellectual property items are imposed on the RD&E contractors. However, patent right holders with regard to these intellectual property items are the RD&E customers. As a result, the RD&E contractors face several difficulties, delays, and limitations with regard to patenting the intellectual property items and do not obtain necessary privileges to the full extent in connection with patenting the created intellectual property items. This article analyses the applicable procedure for distribution of the rights and obligations between the contractors and customers of the RD&E with regard to the patent protection of the created intellectual property items. Using experience of JSC Principle Production and Technical Company Granit as an example, a possibility of protecting RD&E contractors' interests by pre-emptive patenting of the intellectual property items prior to RD&E activities start is explained.
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Hsueh, Sung-Lin, and Min-Ren Yan. "A Multimethodology Contractor Assessment Model for Facilitating Green Innovation: The View of Energy and Environmental Protection." Scientific World Journal 2013 (2013): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/624340.
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The trends of the green supply chain are attributed to pressures from the environment and from customers. Green innovation is a practice for creating competitive advantage in sustainable development. To keep up with the changing business environment, the construction industry needs an appropriate assessment tool to examine the intrinsic and extrinsic effects regarding corporate competitive advantage. From the viewpoint of energy and environmental protection, this study combines four scientific methodologies to develop an assessment model for the green innovation of contractors. System dynamics can be used to estimate the future trends for the overall industrial structure and is useful in predicting competitive advantage in the industry. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and utility theory focus on the customer’s attitude toward risk and are useful for comprehending changes in objective requirements in the environment. Fuzzy logic can simplify complicated intrinsic and extrinsic factors and express them with a number or ratio that is easy to understand. The proposed assessment model can be used as a reference to guide the government in examining the public constructions that qualified green contractors participate in. Additionally, the assessment model serves an indicator of relative competitiveness that can help the general contractor and subcontractor to evaluate themselves and further green innovations.
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Usher, David. "How Response Contractors are Remaining Vigilant and Viable Despite the Downward Trend in Oil Spills." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2003, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 809–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2003-1-809.
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ABSTRACT The number of oil spills occurring in U.S. waters from vessels and facilities has decreased steadily over the past several years, and professional oil spill response contractors have found themselves in the position of bolstering and/or securing other lines of work to ensure they remain vigilant, viable, and ready to respond when and where needed. Coupled with a down economy, spill contractors – like other businesses – are making tough decisions on how to do more with less, while maintaining the same level of readiness expected of them from their clients – which includes the oil and maritime industries, along with local, state and federal government. While the regulatory mechanisms are in place to exercise contractor resources between spill events, they are not enforced or utilized enough. Of equal importance is ensuring that the response contractor is compensated for deploying its resources during these drill scenarios. This paper will discuss the measures private sector response contractors are taking to ensure they remain ready to respond, other business lines they are pursuing, and how the regulatory authorities can assist in maintaining the national protection and readiness provided by the private sector response community. It will also discuss how the private sector response community can assist with the national Homeland Defense initiatives, most notably mitigation services for terrorist actions that ultimately impact the environment
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KUMARI, ARCHNA. "Consumer Protection Under E- Contract." Paripex - Indian Journal Of Research 3, no. 6 (January 15, 2012): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.15373/22501991/june2014/31.
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Levushkin, A. N. "Protection of the Rights of Consumers of Services in Court and the Responsibility of the Contractor." Rossijskoe pravosudie 1 (December 25, 2020): 24–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.37399/issn2072-909x.2021.1.23-31.
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Problem Statement. We believe that a special interest is the protection of the rights of citizensconsumers in domestic service, which is considered one of the most important socially significant sectors, providing a huge variety of services. Moreover, the most acute issues are the protection of the rights of consumers of services in court and the responsibility of the service provider. Purpose and Objectives of the Study. Identify the essential features of the application of consumer protection services in court to determine some features of the responsibility of the service provider under the legislation of the Russian Federation. Research objectives: to analyze some features of protection of the rights of consumers of services in court; to determine the order of responsibility of the service provider in case of violation of the quality of the rendered service; to identify the shortcomings of legal regulation in the protection of the rights of consumers of services in court and on their legal analysis to formulate individual proposals for the reform of the current legislation. Method of Research. We used empirical methods of comparison, description, and interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; historical-legal and comparative-legal methods. Results, Brief Conclusions. It is defined that the protection of consumer rights refers to the activities of the state aimed at regulating public relations that arise between a consumer and a business entity. It is established that in the entire sphere of legal regulation of consumer protection there are certain principles that determine the ways to improve consumer legal norms, taking into account political, economic, ideological and environmental conditions. They help ensure the unity of the application of legal norms in the sphere of consumer services, as well as identify ways to improve the human rights mechanism. It is argued that in ensuring the quality of household services rendered, its performers play a fundamental role. However, the correct actions on the part of the consumer, expressed in its obligation to comply with the rules for using the results of the service provided, also play a role in ensuring their proper quality. In case of rendering of household services of inadequate quality and absence of a positive result of an out-of-court dispute resolution procedure, the consumer»s right to protection is implemented by applying to the court.
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Anysz, Hubert, and Wojciech Rogala. "Sensitivity analysis of the contractor’s financial effects achieved on a single building site." Przegląd Naukowy Inżynieria i Kształtowanie Środowiska 28, no. 2 (July 10, 2019): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.22630/pniks.2019.28.2.17.
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Based on catalogues, the time schedule of erecting multi-storey building has been prepared. Real current conditions and the average cost of the building allows for creating the model where four variables influence NPV and maximum cash demand of a contractor erecting the building. The simulation made in the spreadsheet is the base for calculating and presenting the sensitivity analysis of each variable separately, as well as, for creating the surface chart where the joint influence of terms of payments affects the maximum demand for cash. The way of using of this chart has been described aiming at the protection of the contractor from losing financial liquidity while the profi table project is executed.
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Merwin, S. E., J. B. Martin, J. J. Tawil, and J. M. Selby. "Three Example Applications of Optimization Techniques to Department of Energy Contractor Radiation Protection Programs." Health Physics 57, no. 6 (December 1989): 873–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00004032-198912000-00001.
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Walimuni, Piumi Chethana, Aparna Samaraweera, and Lalith De Silva. "Payment mechanisms for contractors for better environmental hazard controlling in road construction projects." Built Environment Project and Asset Management 7, no. 4 (September 14, 2017): 426–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bepam-11-2016-0069.
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Purpose There is a growing concern that contractors can be motivated for environmental protection through effective fund allocation and proper payment mechanisms. However, an in-depth analysis of environmental hazard-controlling methods and related payments to the contractor in road construction in Sri Lanka is not much popular among the extant literature. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to explore different payment mechanisms that are being used with environmental hazard-controlling methods, to achieve better control in such hazards in Sri Lankan road construction projects. Design/methodology/approach This research was approached through a mixed research method. Initially, hazard-controlling methods and relative payment mechanisms for the contractor were identified through three exploratory case studies using interviews, observations and document survey. Next, the relative effectiveness of payment mechanisms for contractors for better environmental hazard controlling was identified through a questionnaire survey with a sample of 45 professionals involved in 15 road construction projects. Findings Based on the findings, a comprehensive list of environmental hazard-controlling methods was derived. Furthermore, four types of payment mechanisms were identified: (A)-payments, where a unit price was assigned; (B)-payments, where a provisional sum was established in the contract; (C)-payments, where fixed amounts (lump sums) were assigned in the contract and (D)-payments made along with some main work item in the contract. Relative effectiveness of these four mechanisms for better control of environmental hazards was varied for each hazard-controlling method being practiced in a road construction project. Originality/value These findings would be more beneficial for consultants, project managers, bidders and estimators in the pre-contract stage. This is by identifying cost items for environmental hazard controlling and selecting relatively more effective payment mechanisms to motivate contractors for better control of environmental hazards during project execution.
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Dragićević, Marija. "Employment law protection of crowdworkers: Conceptual issues in the legal definition of crowdworkers." Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta Nis 60, no. 90 (2021): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrpfn0-32188.
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Although the increased performance in digital platform work has been recorded only recently, the numerous problems related to employment law and social welfare protection of crowdworkers are not new. Due to diverse issues in classifying specific individuals as employees, "atypical" workers and crowdworkers have encountered many problems while attempting to obtain employment law and social welfare protection. Despite numerous differences, majority of countries have made employment law protection available to those digital platform workers who meet the requirements of the legal definition of "an employee" (or "a worker", as explicitly designated in specific legislations). In other words, the legal definition of an employee or a dependent contractor provides entrance into the area of employment law protection. However, both national and international legislators have demonstrated a certain degree of inertness in terms of avoiding to adjust the legal concept of "an employee" (or a subordinate, as defined in some legislations) to new social and economic circumstances. Considering the traditional concept of "employee", a crowdworker cannot be designated as a subordinate; consequently, digital platform workers do not fall under the scope of relevant provisions of labor, social care and tax law. On the other hand, when it comes to traditional legal categories, classifying crowdworkers as independent contractors does not diminish their need for adequate protection, primarily in terms of fair financial compensation for work, clearly limited working hours, health care and safety at work, protection in case of illness, injury at work, maternity leave or freedom of association. Therefore, national legislators should revise the justifiability and proportionality of legislation applied to economic cooperation, and consider the specificities of economic cooperation business models and tools that can be used for resolving ample issues in defining employment law protection of crowdworkers and identifying entities that may have the legal status of the employer.
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Minniakhmetov, I. S., and A. Z. Arslanov. "PROCEDURE FOR ENTERING INTO A CONTRACT, MAKING ESTIMATES WHEN PERFORMING CADASTRAL WORKS IN CONNECTION WITH THE FORMATION OF A LAND PLOT BY DIVIDING THE LAND PLOT IN THE MR KUSHNARENKOVSKY DISTRICT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN." RUSSIAN ELECTRONIC SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL 35, no. 1 (March 27, 2020): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.31563/2308-9644-2020-35-1-108-118.
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The article considers the main regulatory legal acts, the procedure for concluding contracts and budgeting on the example of cadastral work in the MP Kushnarenkovsky district of the Republic of Belarus. By concluding an agreement, each party assumes certain obligations and gives the other party the opportunity to protect their rights in case of violation. A correctly drawn up contract and estimate describe in detail the obligations of the customer and contractor, the procedure for their implementation and scope. For the customer, this means that he can be sure of the quality and volume of the services provided. For the contractor, this is confidence that the payment will be timely, and the procedure for accepting services and the criteria for their implementation will not change. The agreement will serve as a guarantee of fulfillment of obligations and protection of rights.
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Rubino, Christopher M., Lukas Stulik, Harald Rouha, Zehra Visram, Adriana Badarau, Scott A. Van Wart, Paul G. Ambrose, Matthew M. Goodwin, and Eszter Nagy. "1388. Dose Discrimination for ASN100: Bridging from Rabbit Survival Data to Predicted Activity in Humans Using a Minimal Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic (mPBPK) Model." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5, suppl_1 (November 2018): S426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy210.1219.
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Abstract Background ASN100 is a combination of two co-administered fully human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), ASN-1 and ASN-2, that together neutralize the six cytotoxins critical to S. aureus pneumonia pathogenesis. ASN100 is in development for prevention of S. aureus pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients. A pharmacometric approach to dose discrimination in humans was taken in order to bridge from dose-ranging, survival studies in rabbits to anticipated human exposures using a mPBPK model derived from data from rabbits (infected and noninfected) and noninfected humans [IDWeek 2017, Poster 1849]. Survival in rabbits was assumed to be indicative of a protective effect through ASN100 neutralization of S. aureus toxins. Methods Data from studies in rabbits (placebo through 20 mg/kg single doses of ASN100, four strains representing MRSA and MSSA isolates with different toxin profiles) were pooled with data from a PK and efficacy study in infected rabbits (placebo and 40 mg/kg ASN100) [IDWeek 2017, Poster 1844]. A Cox proportional hazards model was used to relate survival to both strain and mAb exposure. Monte Carlo simulation was then applied to generate ASN100 exposures for simulated patients given a range of ASN100 doses and infection with each strain (n = 500 per scenario) using a mPBPK model. Using the Cox model, the probability of full protection from toxins (i.e., predicted survival) was estimated for each simulated patient. Results Cox models showed that survival in rabbits is dependent on both strain and ASN100 exposure in lung epithelial lining fluid (ELF). At human doses simulated (360–10,000 mg of ASN100), full or substantial protection is expected for all four strains tested. For the most virulent strain tested in the rabbit pneumonia study (a PVL-negative MSSA, Figure 1), the clinical dose of 3,600 mg of ASN100 provides substantially higher predicted effect relative to lower doses, while doses above 3,600 mg are not predicted to provide significant additional protection. Conclusion A pharmacometric approach allowed for the translation of rabbit survival data to infected patients as well as discrimination of potential clinical doses. These results support the ASN100 dose of 3,600 mg currently being evaluated in a Phase 2 S. aureus pneumonia prevention trial. Disclosures C. M. Rubino, Arsanis, Inc.: Research Contractor, Research support. L. Stulik, Arsanis Biosciences GmbH: Employee, Salary. H. Rouha, 3Arsanis Biosciences GmbH: Employee, Salary. Z. Visram, Arsanis Biosciences GmbH: Employee, Salary. A. Badarau, Arsanis Biosciences GmbH: Employee, Salary. S. A. Van Wart, Arsanis, Inc.: Research Contractor, Research support. P. G. Ambrose, Arsanis, Inc.: Research Contractor, Research support. M. M. Goodwin, Arsanis, Inc.: Employee, Salary. E. Nagy, Arsanis Biosciences GmbH: Employee, Salary.
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Mwanaumo, Erastus, and Jan-Harm Pretorius . "Assessing Health and Safety Requirements in Construction Contracts in Botswana." Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies 6, no. 1 (January 31, 2014): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v6i1.468.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of contractor selection andrequirements on Health and Safety compliance in Botswana. Literature was reviewed, a questionnairesurvey was conducted and the statistical analysis undertaken. According to Murie (2007), one of the weaknesses of adopting traditional procurement approach is that the successful tender will frequently be the one that, among others, does not provide H&S protective equipment or have insurance coverage for accidents, and has the largest proportion of informal workers, who are not covered in practice by any legal or social protection. The study has provided usefulinformation involving key stakeholders involvement in H&S performance in constructionindustry. The traditional method could thus impede on Health and Safety management from project preplanningthrough to construction on site.
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Bazov, Viktor. "Issues of tax credit formation for transactions with a contractor which has signs of fiction." Legal Ukraine, no. 9 (October 30, 2020): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37749/2308-9636-2020-9(213)-5.
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The article reflects the main international legal framework for the formation of a tax credit for transactions with a counterparty, has signs of fictitiousness. State policy in the field of tax relations in the context of globalization and overcoming various challenges, including related to the end of the armed conflict and overcoming the coronavirus epidemic, declares the need for effective regulation of this area of legal relations, including deregulation and business development, creating a favorable environment for conducting both large and medium and small business, the quality and transparency of tax legislation, the certainty of case law. To this end, constitutional and legal reform is being carried out, an important direction of which is the construction of a democratic state governed by the rule of law in Ukraine, the main element of which is a system of efficient and fair justice that meets the best European and international standards. Relevant prerequisites for this are created by the Constitution of Ukraine, which, in particular, recognizes the highest social value, enshrines the possibility of judicial protection of his rights and freedoms, created an appropriate system of such protection, proclaims the rule of law in the state. Ukraine, as well as on tax legislation, in particular in the field of tax credit for transactions with a counterparty that has signs of fictitiousness.The state of the legislative provision of responsibility for the performance of business transactions with signs of fictitiousness in certain EU and other states, including Ukraine, has been investigated. Analyzed the judicial practice of the Supreme Court on the protection of the rights of taxpayers and the interests of the state in this area of tax legal relations. Proposals are given for improving the legislative framework and judicial practice in the field of forming a tax credit for transactions with a counterparty, has signs of fictitiousness. Key words: international law, taxes, judicial control, tax credit, fictitiousness, counterparty, offshore jurisdictions, liability.
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Du Plessis, Paul. "The protection of the contractor in public works contracts in the Roman Republic and Early Empire." Journal of Legal History 25, no. 3 (December 2004): 287–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0144036042000290735.
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Adistianti, Narisa, and I. Ketut Sucita. "PENERAPAN KONSTRUKSI HIJAU PADA PROYEK APARTEMEN X DI JAKARTA PUSAT." Construction and Material Journal 2, no. 2 (September 15, 2020): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.32722/cmj.v2i2.3089.
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ABSTRACTAlong with the Jakarta Governor rules no. 38/2012 about green building, The Contractors in the capital has been practicing to implement green construction in building construction. This is done by a contractor state-owned or private contractor. The purpose of this research is analyzing the application of green construction by state owned contractors who is not a member of green building council Indonesia. Collecting data which used in this research was questionnaire, observation, and documentation. The reference of indicators are from regulations, rating tools GBCI and models assessment green construction developed by Wulfram Ervianto. The Indicators are health program and occupational safety, environmental health work, air quality construction phase, election and operational construction phase, planning and scheduling construction equipment, documentation construction project, building & enviroment management, training for subcontractor, waste management, the source and cycle construction, material storage and protection, appropriate site development, reduction ecological footprint the project, protection plan, water conservation, and efficiency & energy conservation. The method of analysis data questionnare are descriptive analysis. The result of research is average value of the implementation of green construction by 85,08 % which means that green construction points of the indicators as a whole has taken and implemented by contractor.Keywords: green construction; construction phase; GBCIABSTRAKSeiring dengan diberlakukannya Peraturan Gubernur DKI Jakarta No. 38 Tahun 2012 mengenai Bangunan Gedung Hijau, kontraktor-kontraktor di Ibukota mulai menerapkan konstruksi hijau dalam proses pembangunan gedung. Hal itu dilakukan oleh kontraktor milik negara ataupun kontraktor milik swasta. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis penerapan konstruksi hijau oleh kontraktor milik Negara yang bukan anggota Green Building Council Indonesia. Pengumpulan data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuisioner, observasi dan dokumentasi. Acuan indikator konstruksi hijau dari peraturan perundangan- undangan, rating tools GBCI dan model assessment green construction yang dikembangkan oleh Ervianto. Indikator tersebut antara lain program kesehatan dan keselamatan kerja, kesehatan lingkungan kerja tahap konstruksi, kualitas udara tahap konstruksi ,pemilihan dan operasional peralatan konstruksi, perencanaan dan penjadwalan, dokumentasi, ,manajemen lingkungan proyek konstruksi, pelatihan bagi subkontraktor, manajemen limbah konstruksi, sumber dan siklus material, penyimpanan dan perlindungan material, tepat guna lahan, pengurangan jejak ekologis, rencana perlindungan lokasi pekerjaan, konservasi air, dan efisiensi dan konservasi energi. Metode analisis data kuisioner ialah dengan analisa deskriptif. Hasil dari penelitian didapatkan nilai rata-rata penerapan green construction sebesar 85,08% yang artinya bahwa poin poin dari indikator konstruksi hijau secara keseluruhan telah diperhatikan dan diimplementasikan oleh kontraktor.Kata Kunci: konstruksi hijau; fase konstruksi; GBCI
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Qiuhui, Quek, and Zerlina Toh. "CONTRACTOR SAFETY IN SPILL RESPONSE1." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2008, no. 1 (May 1, 2008): 241–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2008-1-241.
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ABSTRACT Oil spills are fortunately not a daily event. However, when they do occur, many people are emotionally stirred into wanting to contribute to the clean up. These volunteers (e.g. Nakohdka, Erika, Prestige spills) and contractors come from a myriad of backgrounds and skills. They want to be assigned meaningful roles so they can feel ‘useful’. The additional risks imposed on the overall management of the spill response must be carefully assessed and managed. All responders will inevitably be exposed to health and safety issues in the response. It is important to advocate health and safety during peace time to eliminate the exposure of the responders and contractors to potential hazards during an actual response. The challenge is to identify appropriate training standards that will ensure the competence of contractors’ knowledge and awareness of safety protocols during a response. Properly trained contractors are an invaluable asset during a spill response where they are effectively integrated into the overall response structure. Trained contractors in Singapore have been tested in real time exercises and were incorporated successfully in actual spill responses. During spill response, contractors have safely participated in the response and clean-up activities. It has been demonstrated that contractors who have undergone training have a higher level of safety awareness as compared to those that have not undergone training. This paper will discuss generally our training for contractors during peace time and specifically the health and safety modules, personal protective equipment (PPE) usage, safe handling of oil spill equipment / chemical dispersants and expectations of an individual in a spill. The paper will also briefly discuss the assignment of ‘volunteers’ during a spill response on how their skills can be best deployed and utilized with keeping health and safety risks as low as possible.
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Triplat, Matevž, and Nike Krajnc. "A System for Quality Assessment of Forestry Contractors." Croatian journal of forest engineering 42, no. 1 (September 28, 2020): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5552/crojfe.2021.834.
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Skilled contractors are needed to meet the increased demand for wood and to maintain a competitive edge in forestry. The structure of the forest industry has changed significantly. Today’s situation favours smaller contractors that are more flexible. Worldwide contractors are important for forest operations, but there is often limited knowledge about how well they fulfil demands about resource efficiency, social responsibility and environmental protection. The aim of this paper is to present the guidelines for the assessment of forestry contractors following sustainability principles and to present a recently developed system. In addition to the requirements for professional competences and legislative obligations, the system proposes a number of additional requirements such as corporate social responsibility, participation in the local community and greater environmental responsibility. The forestry contractor and the certification body sign a cooperation agreement to obtain the expert assessment. The expert assessment is performed by an evaluator authorised by a certification body. A web service has been introduced with the purpose of serving as a communication tool between professional evaluators and forestry contractors, as well as providing a new possibility for forest owners to get direct contact with forestry contractors. The system enables its users to exert influence on the assessment of forestry contractors by assessing the quality of their services. Private forests would greatly benefit from customer feedback information on the service quality. By now, 1584 forest contractors have registered in Slovenia, where 67% provide the service of cutting and skidding, 8% provide woodchipper service, 7% transport of round wood, 5% cable crane yarding and 4% fully mechanised harvesting. Until June 2020, 142 forest contractors have gone through the process of quality assessment.
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Watt, Randall R., and Larry T. Cupitt. "Sample Accountability Quality Assurance for the "Integrated Air Cancer Project" Research Program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL 70, no. 6 (November 1, 1987): 1069–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/70.6.1069.
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Abstract A sample accountability quality assurance (QA) program is described for a field and laboratory research effort which resulted in collection of approximately 2000 samples for analysis by several EPA and contractor laboratories. A QA program was specifically developed for this research program to include sample transfer from collection site to storage maintenance, record development, transfer to researchers, and sample tracking at all stages. A sample identification system and sample custody records are described for field and laboratory application. The functions of a sample coordinator are also described as relating to sample custody, coordination of sample analysis with researchers, and development of computer record files to facilitate research and sample tracking.
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Lu, Ying, and Yu Zhang. "Toward a Stakeholder Perspective on Safety Risk Factors of Metro Construction: A Social Network Analysis." Complexity 2020 (October 26, 2020): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8884304.
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The rapid development of the metro has greatly relieved the traffic pressure on the urban ground system, but the frequency of metro construction accidents is also increasing year by year. Due to the complex construction process of the metro, once an accident occurs, casualties and property damage are extremely serious. The safety risk factors triggered by different stakeholders were the primary cause of accidents during the metro construction phase. This paper builts a social analysis network of safety risk factors in metro construction from a stakeholder’s perspective. Based on 42 accident cases and related literature, 6 stakeholders and 25 safety risk factors were identified and the relationships between stakeholders and safety risk factors were also determined. Through the application of social network analysis, a social network of safety risk factors in metro construction was constructed, and quantitative analysis was carried out based on density, degree centrality, betweenness centrality, and cohesive subgroup. The results showed that the key safety risk factors in the construction phase of the metro were in action of the contractor’s construction site managers, lack of safety protection at the construction site, insufficient detailed survey and design information provided by the designer, unfavorable government regulation, and bad weather. Moreover, the results of 20 cohesive subgroups illustrated the interrelationship between safety risk factors. S1H2 (“violations by operatives” related to contractor) and S1H4 (“lack of safety precautions” related to contractor) and S5H5 (“ineffective supervision” related to supervisor) both belonged to subgroup G1, which means that there is a high probability that these three safety risk factors would occur simultaneously. This paper provided a basis to improve the level of safety risk management and control from the stakeholder’s perspective.
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Jiang, Feng. "Chinese contractor involvement in wildlife protection in Africa: Case study of Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway Project, Kenya." Land Use Policy 95 (June 2020): 104650. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104650.
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Turner, Claire, W. I. Hamilton, and Martyn Ramsden. "Bowtie diagrams: A user-friendly risk communication tool." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part F: Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit 231, no. 10 (November 2017): 1088–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0954409716675006.
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The rail infrastructure controller in Great Britain recognised that more work was required to allow a robust and consistent demonstration that appropriate health and safety risk assessments are being undertaken throughout each stage of the contracting process. In response to this requirement, the authors were engaged to assist the rail infrastructure client with the development of a new risk-based contractor management and assurance process. Bowtie diagrams were selected as a key component of this process to represent: Key safety risks associated with rail construction projects; Potential causes and consequences of unwanted events; Good practice in risk barriers/controls. To test the suitability of Bowties for risk communication to contractors, three key hazards were identified for Bowtie analysis. These and the specific top events selected were as follows: Hazard: Working at height – from scaffold, ladders, mobile elevating working platforms, mobile towers or ledges; Top event: Falls from height – to surface; Hazard: Working in vicinity of uninsulated conductors and supply points; Top event: Contact with live/charged equipment >60 V; Hazard: Working on or near the line; Top event: Personnel in path of oncoming train. A one-day Bowtie development workshop was held for each of the hazards selected. These were attended by client personnel with the required knowledge and expertise of the hazard and associated barrier measures, ensuring the necessary levels of input and consultation. Feedback to date on the Bowtie approach has been positive, both within the client and contractor organisations. Bowties provide a method of communicating the client’s expectations about levels of protection to infrastructure project contractors and address the following key requirements: Allow contractors to understand risk management requirements in detail and to price jobs accordingly; Enable identification of gaps in the barrier of key risks and facilitate implementation of best practice; Can be used by the client as a project safety assurance tool to check the risk management measures in place against those defined in the Bowtie; Demonstrate to the regulator that the client is communicating a clear ‘safety story’ throughout a project. This paper describes the Bowtie development process in accordance with Ten Golden Rules including how human factors can be incorporated in a systematic and meaningful way. It will demonstrate how the Bowties developed within this project represent in a clear and accessible manner what constitutes industry best practice with regard to controlling important safety risks in construction projects.
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Pachla, Filip, Bartosz Radecki-Pawlik, Krzysztof Stypuła, and Tadeusz Tatara. "Optimization of the protection against railway vibrations on the example of railway control building in Biała Rawska." Transportation Overview - Przeglad Komunikacyjny 2017, no. 6 (June 1, 2017): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.35117/a_eng_17_06_01.
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The work presents the design process of vibration isolation for a building subjected to the influence of railway vibrations. This process is illustrated on the example of the railway control building in Biała Rawska, realized within the framework of the investment whose the general contractor was PORR Poland Construction S.A. Measurements of railway vibrations at the site of the planned building were made. The building calculation model was performed and then the vibration isolation parameters of the building were calculated based on the simulation calculations of this model. The purpose of the described design work was to limit the impact of vibration on the people and the equipment in the computer server room located in this building. The original design of the rail track vibration insulation was replaced by the building vibration project. This allowed to optimize work time, reduced railway traffic interruptions and the cost of vibration isolation.
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Jalbert, P. P., G. L. Salmon, and S. De Scisciolo (INVITED). "United States Environmental Protection Agency National Radon Proficiency Programmes." Radiation Protection Dosimetry 56, no. 1-4 (December 1, 1994): 275–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082470.
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Abstract The US Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary National Radon Proficiency Programmes: Radon Measurement, and Reduction Proficiency are described, including their history and development, current status and future directions. The Radon Measurement Proficiency (RMP) and Radon Contractor Proficiency (RCP) programmes are fundamental to the Agency's programme to reduce the health risk associated with exposure to elevated radon levels in indoor air. Originally developed to provide technical assistance to States, the proficiency programmes now offer US consumers assurance of the quality of their radon measurements and reduction jobs. In other words, the proficiency programmes provide a means to consumers for deciding from which organisations or individuals to purchase radon services. This is especially important in the United States where most radon services are acquired through private enterprises rather than through the public sector. The Agency encourages the public to purchase radon measurement and reduction services only from organisations or individuals that have met the requirements of EPA's proficiency programmes. An increasing number of States require an EPA proficiency listing for their radon registration, licensing, and certification programmes. EPA estimates that about 85% of US companies offering radon services are participating in its proficiency programmes. Consequently, the Agency believes that the development and growth of quality radon services has kept pace with consumer demand. The United States markeplace for residential radon measurement and mitigation services has been dynamic since its inception in the mid-1980s. The fluidity of the market is likely to continue, with some significant changes appearing imminent. The US Congress is now considering legislation that would require participation in the Agency's radon proficiency programmes. In addition, this legislation contains provisions that would encourage consumer testing. Increased testing, coupled with a mandatory national proficiency programme, is likely to result in an increase in the quality of radon services available to the US public.
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Zhang, Hui, and Yi Hu Zhang. "Study on Lean Construction Method of Green Substation." Applied Mechanics and Materials 448-453 (October 2013): 4369–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.448-453.4369.
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The application of lean construction theory in building green substation was discussed. The study on integration of design-build indicated that the electric power design institute as the general contractor should change the mode of only setting up one secondary organization to manage the engineering, and should improve the management system and change the producing idea. The study on the combination of the last planner system and building the substation indicated that the measures of arranging the work and setting the workload reasonably and enhancing the supply of important resources etc. could increase the Percent Plan Complete of building the substation. At last, the 4-saving and 1-environmental protection measures of green construction of substation were brought out.
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Esteban Gabriela, Jesús, and Iván Martín Pérez. "Análisis de la gestión de la seguridad y salud en las obras de construcción en Sudáfrica. Nueva regulación en materia preventiva, nuevos desafíos, nuevas oportunidades = Management analysis of Health and Safety on construction sites in South Africa, New c." Anales de Edificación 1, no. 1 (May 4, 2015): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.20868/ade.2015.3039.
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Sudáfrica se enfrenta en la actualidad a nuevos retos en el sector de la construcción. Por un lado, la necesidad de un nuevo modelo de sector energético que ayude al crecimiento sostenible del país así como a su modernización, y por otro lado la necesidad urgente de mejorar las altas cifras de siniestralidad que el sector de la construcción sigue teniendo a fecha de hoy. Para ello, en febrero del año pasado, 2014, el Ministerio de Trabajo sudafricano publicó un nuevo texto legal – Construction Regulations 2014 -, modificando al que ya existía en vigor– Construction Regulations 2003, regulando las nuevas obligaciones en materia de seguridad y salud de todos los intervinientes haciendo especial hincapié en la figura del Promotor (“client”) como eje vertebrador de la promoción de la seguridad y salud en las obras de construcción. La aparición de la designación obligatoria de nuevos profesionales en materia de seguridad y salud tanto para el promotor como para las empresas participantes (“principal contractor” y “contractor) dotan a la actual organización preventiva de obra de una mayor estructuración y claridad a la hora de acometer la implantación de los principios básicos de la gestión preventiva a través del seguimiento de los trabajos por parte de dichos profesionales basándose en documentos de gestión preventiva establecidos de igual forma (“risk assessment”, “health and safety specification”, “fall protection plan” y el “health and safety file”). El registro de dichos profesionales ante la SACPCMP - “South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions”, obligatorio a partir del 6 de agosto de 2015, dotará de una mayor profesionalización de los técnicos que desempeñen dichas funciones; cuestión fundamental para seguir trabajando en la mejora de los índices de siniestralidad del sector de la construcción en Sudáfrica. Abstract South Africa is currently facing new challenges in the construction sector. On the one hand, the need for a new model of energy sector to assist the sustainable growth of the country and its modernization, and secondly the urgent need to improve the high number of accidents rates that the construction sector still keeps to date. On last February, 2014, the Ministry of Labor released a new construction regulations – construction regulations 2014 – modifying to Construction Regulations 2003, regulating the new duties and obligations on health and safety belong to all agents involved with special emphasis on the role of “Client” as the backbone of promoting the health and safety matters on construction sites. The emergence of new mandatory professionals appointments on health and safety both for client and principal contractor – contractor, endow to current safety organizational chart on site with a better structure and clarity to undertake the implementation of the basic principles of preventive safety management through monitoring by these professionals based in all new safety documents established likewise ("risk assessment", "health and safety specification", "fall protection plan "and" health and safety file "). The register of these new safety roles through SACPCMP - “South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions”, will come into in force on 6th august, 2015. This register will provide better professionalism of technicians who perform those duties, essential point to keep improving the accidents – incidents rates on construction sector in South Africa.
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Skvorc, Casey. "Employee, Contractor, or Student? Four Legal Decisions Illustrate Differences in Laboratory Worker Protections." Applied Biosafety 21, no. 3 (July 7, 2016): 151–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1535676016655008.
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Hillman, Sharon O., James E. McHale, Steve D. Hood, Richard C. Long, John C. Klepper, and Gary P. Bader. "WORLD-CLASS OIL SPILL PREVENTION AND RESPONSE FOR THE ALASKAN: TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM TANKER TRADE." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1995, no. 1 (February 1, 1995): 287–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1995-1-287.
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ABSTRACT Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Ship Escort Response Vessel System (SERVS) is the primary response action contractor for Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) laden tankers within Prince William Sound and an oil spill removal organization for the Gulf of Alaska. During the past five years, SERVS has implemented a world-class spill prevention and response organization for this region. The activities of the SERVS prevention and response organization include escort prevention service, spill prevention activities, response equipment, contingency planning, nearshore response, community involvement, fishing vessels program, citizen oversight, and training. Plans have been made for dispersant use, in-situ burning, waste management, coastal resource and sensitive environment inventory, wildlife protection and rehabilitation, and other response strategies. Response equipment and strategy updates are closely coordinated with ship operators/charters (planholders), agencies, and the public, including the Prince William Sound Regional Citizen Advisory Council.
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Klimczak, Tomasz, and Jacek Paś. "Reliability-operational analysis of fixed gas fire extinguishing equipment integrated with fire signalling systems." Bulletin of the Military University of Technology 68, no. 2 (June 28, 2019): 189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.3011.
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Fire protection of server rooms and data processing centres, located in public buildings, uses fire extinguishing equipment known as fixed gas fire extinguishing devices (SUG-G). The extinguishing medium (gas in tanks) should be stored at a location indicated in the fire scenario and in the technical contractor project for SUG-G. SUG-G is intended to extinguish a fire in its initial stages and to prevent fire spreading. The fire signalling central station (CSP) receives a fire signal from a group of sensors located in the protected premise and notifies the Fire Brigade (PS), whilst the fire extinguishing control room automatically starts the gas extinguishing process. Such use of a signalling and extinguishing system results in a redundant system. This improves reliability of the fire signalling system (SSP), which is responsible for safety inside the building. Keywords: sensor, operation, fire signalling systems.
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Scott, Peter. "An Overview Of Optimising Passive Fire Protection Using A Limiting Temperature By Structural Assessment." Journal of Structural Fire Engineering 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2014): 25–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/2040-2317.5.1.25.
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The British Standards and the Eurocodes both cover the design of steel structures in fire. These provide designers with the opportunity to exploit the properties of structural steel to its maximum capacity in the fire limit state, termed Structural Fire Engineering. This allows fire protection measures to be integrated into structural design as part of the passive fire protection specification. If used effectively in the specification process it can bring significant benefits to the project, including robust and safe designs, quantified structural performance and cost savings.The suitability of a member in a structural design is generally governed by serviceability limitations such as deflection. Generally this approach provides a conservative working stress for the steel sections of approximately 50% of their overall capacity. Within the UK, this simplified approach led to the development of prescribed limiting steel temperatures of 550°C for columns and 620°C for beams.Best-practice industry guidance published in the UK encourages designers to specify a limiting steel temperature together with the fire resistance period as part of the overall steelwork specification. Passive fire protection is generally specified post design-stage at a contractor or applicator level and sometimes very little is known about the limiting steel temperature.This paper provides an overview of the fire protection specification and provides advice on structural fire engineering to determine a limiting steel temperature and the benefits that can be gained from doing so. The paper highlights how supplier expertise in fire engineering approaches and product performance knowledge can bring value to a design and play an important role in providing safe, cost effective and compliant solutions.
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Dillon, LTJG Kathleen. "Building Federal Partnerships to Harness Long-Term Success: A Case Study from the Joint EPA and USCG Response to Michigan Chemical Factories." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2017, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 2017075. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2017.1.000075.
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In the fall of 2015, the Coast Guard's Atlantic Strike Team (AST) was requested by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 to provide response operations at two abandoned chemical plating factories in Michigan. Starting in October 2015, the AST provided three months of air monitoring and chemical pumping operation support at the Michner Chemical Plating Factory in Jackson, Michigan. Shortly after operations began at Michner, EPA Region 5 requested additional AST support with hazardous material categorization and contractor monitoring at the Hard Chrome Plating facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Both abandoned chemical facilities were in close proximity to schools, residential neighborhoods, and community spaces. Each facility contained highly toxic chemicals including hydrochloric acid, hydrogen cyanide, and chromic acid. At each location, AST responders used flexibility and technical knowledge to address emergent issues and long term response strategies. This paper explores many of the challenges faced by the EPA and the Atlantic Strike Team including accurate chemical categorization, determination of appropriate personal protective equipment for responders, and communication issues. This examination reinforces the need for a close working relationship between the EPA and Coast Guard during both coastal and inland incident responses as well as providing recommendations for considerations to be made during future chemical clean-up responses.
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Cheberyachko, Serhii, Yurii Cheberyachko, Dmytro Radchuk, Oleg Deryugin, and Olha Nesterova. "Improvement of the procedure of new filter masks development." MATEC Web of Conferences 305 (2020): 00038. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202030500038.
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The purpose is to substantiate theoretically the design of elastomeric half mask and canister of respirator of long-term protection. To develop the models for theoretical calculations of protective properties of dust masks the theory of non-stationary filtration and hydro aerodynamics was applied. To develop the digital model of a head the downhill simplex method was applied reflecting separate face features considering sex or age; to determine the halfmask surface the free energy equation for bowed plate being described by two-dimension spline surface was used with its unknown coefficients determined by method of proportional parts based on three-dimension coordinates of anthropometric face features. The main anthropometric face features influencing halfmasks design were determined to develop polygonous 3D model of head. According to its determined basic coordinates the surface of halfmask was determined using method of interpolation. Considering the mathematical model describing the movement of dust flows near a halfmask and in canister the dependences of distribution of air flow speed in a canister of variable geometry were set and kinematic parameters of dust-laden airflow according to a canister volume were determined. Reasonable geometric parameters of canister were determined; transient modulation from filter to inlet valve hole is performed as a contractor.
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Godlewska-Bujok, Barbara. "Upowszechnienie stosowania umów cywilnoprawnych a ochrona socjalna zatrudnionych." Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne 2019, no. 1 (January 20, 2019): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33226/0032-6186.2019.1.12.
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Danilov, Igor B., and Yuriy B. Danilov. "The Legal Protection of a Treasury Contractor Under a Supply Agreement in the Russian Empire of the XIX to the Early XX Century." History of state and law 7 (July 2, 2020): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18572/1812-3805-2020-7-46-51.
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de la Monte, S. M., T. Quertermous, C. C. Hong, and K. D. Bloch. "Regional and maturation-associated expression of endothelin 2 in rat gastrointestinal tract." Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry 43, no. 2 (February 1995): 203–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/43.2.7822776.
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Endothelin 2 (ET2), also referred to as vasoactive intestinal contractor peptide, is a member of a family of vasoactive peptides. ET2 is a potent constrictor of intestinal smooth muscle, and the mRNA that encodes it has been detected in murine intestinal extracts. To further investigate the potential physiological roles of ET2, we characterized the cellular distribution of ET2 gene expression in adult rat gastrointestinal tract. Using an RNAse protection assay, an overall proximal to distal gradient of increasing ET2 gene expression was observed from stomach to colon. In situ hybridization studies confirmed this finding and demonstrated ET2 mRNA localized in lamina propria stromal cells. Moreover, ET2 gene expression in stromal cells increased from crypt to villous tip. The results demonstrate that ET2 is produced by stromal cells in villi throughout the intestine. Increased ET2 gene expression at the villous tip is associated with more mature overlying epithelial cells, suggesting a possible role for this vasoactive peptide in intestinal epithelial differentiation or secretory activity.
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Krohn, Drake, and Darcy M. Bullock. "Time-Lapse Photography of Runway Reconstruction for Education and Training." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2603, no. 1 (January 2017): 39–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2603-05.
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Airfield construction projects have unique construction challenges because of their close proximity to aircraft operations. During these projects, communication, safety areas, airspace protection zones, and foreign object damage are emphasized. Incursions and incidents are of significant concern to FAA, the airport operator, and the contractor. This paper discusses and illustrates how time-lapse photography can be used to develop training and educational material pertaining to the construction practices on airfields. This proposed idea is illustrated through case studies documenting runway reconstruction at two airports in Indiana. The paper is supplemented by several images and with links to YouTube videos to illustrate these concepts. This material is beneficial for training construction workers in airfield awareness, and it provides an overall understanding of the complexities of airside construction. Although this paper focuses on general aviation airports, the material can be of value to all sizes and types of airports. With some modifications and support, the proposed techniques could be applied to larger airports.
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Purse, Graham. "Policy Forum: Sagaz at 20—Evaluating Employment and Independent Contractor Relationships in a Changing World." Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne 69, no. 2 (August 2021): 453–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.32721/ctj.2021.69.2.pf.purse.
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In 2001, the Supreme Court of Canada decided <i>Sagaz</i>. That decision became an important part of the Canadian jurisprudence that resolves whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor. In the subsequent 20 years, the work world has changed. Traditional tests of worker classification may not be appropriate in the new on-demand or gig economy. The multifactor tests that courts use to slot workers into two discrete categories, each with vastly different benefits and costs, are arguably no longer appropriate. Future approaches to this issue should consider either the use of legal tests that are more likely to produce a determination that workers are entitled to various social protections or, alternatively, rules that deem more workers to pay into, and be protected by, various social protections available to employees.
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Luqmanul Hakim, Rizqi Iman Aulia, and Maryanto Maryanto. "KONTRAK PEGADAIAN BARANG DAN JASA DI DINAS PEKERJAAN UMUM KABUPATEN BREBES DITINJAU DARI PRESPEKTIF KENOTARIATAN." Jurnal Akta 4, no. 2 (June 10, 2017): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/akta.v4i2.1785.
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The Goods and Services Procurement Agreement is a complex agreement because it regulates many aspects both legally and technically about the procurement process of goods and services, requiring further study in order to find the ideal contract format for procurement of goods and services in accordance with the needs and able to provide protection and certainty law for the parties that make it.The problems in this research are: 1) How is the legal force of the government procurement contract made under the hands? 2) How is Notary's role in making government procurement contracts? 3) How is the legal protection of the parties in the event of breach of contract (wanprestasi) that harms the State?Approach method used in this research is normative juridical approach method, this research specification is analytical descriptive, data source that is primary and secondary data, data collecting method use by library study, method of data analysis with qualitative analysis.Result of research: 1) Agreement under the hand signed by the parties concerned. Such an agreement is only binding on the parties to the treaty but has no binding power to a third party. 2) Notary's role in the manufacture of Government Procurement of Goods and Services Contract in the form of an authentic deed, According to Article 1 paragraph 1 of Law Number 2 Year 2014 Notary Public Notary: Public Notary is authorized to make authentic deeds and other powers as referred to in the Act, 3) The protection of the law shall be initiated by the obligation of the parties to enter into a procurement agreement of goods and services by containing the clauses already stipulated as one of the legal protection measures for the parties, in the charter agreement.Suggestions in this research is Need a good coordination between the assignor, contractor, planner and supervisor in the implementation pemborongan building. With good coordination, the implementation of building projects can be implemented efficiently, effectively and planned. Keywords: Contract, Goods And Services From, Notary's Perspective
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Bunial, Bunial, Muttaqin Muttaqin, and Anita Rauzana. "FAKTOR-FAKTOR PENERAPAN KESELAMATAN DAN KESEHATAN KERJA YANG MEMPENGARUHI KINERJA PROYEK KONSTRUKSI GEDUNG DI PROVINSI ACEH." Jurnal Arsip Rekayasa Sipil dan Perencanaan 1, no. 4 (December 9, 2018): 130–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24815/jarsp.v1i4.12463.
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PT. Jamsostek stated that in 2012 everyday there are 9 workers who died due to accidents, while total work accident in the same year recorded 103,000 cases. Accidents to these workers will certainly make the productivity of project work decreased, as well as will impact on the poor performance of the project. This study aims to identify the dominant OSH factors applied in the implementation of building construction projects in Aceh Province, and to analyze the relationship and influence between the factors of OSH implementation on the performance of building construction projects in Aceh Province. This study uses qualitative methods through interviews and quantitative through the distribution of questionnaires. The number of research samples obtained by 68 contractor companies. The sampling technique used is purposive sampling. Data processing methods consist of test validity, and reliability, while data analysis consists of descriptive analysis, simple correlation and multiple linear regression. The results showed that the dominant K3 factor applied in the implementation of the building construction project in Aceh Province was a public protection factor with a mean of 4.632. The safety and work competence factors have a good relationship with Spearman coefficient of 0.451 and 0.429, the factors of equipment and work clothes, vehicle lanes, and equipment and machinery have a low correlation with Spearman coefficient of 0.328, 0.386, and 0.243, while fire, and sound, public protection, general, occupational health, and seriousness of the company have a very low relation with Spearman coefficient of 0.077, 0.130, 0.066, 0.107, 0.121, and 0.169 to the performance of building construction projects in Aceh Province. The influence of OSH implementation factors on the performance of building construction project in Aceh Province, which has significant effect is safety factor, equipment and work clothes, vehicle path, equipment and machinery, public protection, general, seriousness of company, and worker competence with tcount ttable and significance value 0.05.
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Marchant, Sharon O., Leslie Pearson, and John Hurst. "THE Windy Bay Discharge – A Success Story." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 2003, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 1097–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-2003-1-1097.
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ABSTRACT In the world of mechanical spill response, success stories are limited. The case of the F/V Windy Bay is an exception and much has been learned from the experience. On August 4, 2001, the fishing vessel Windy Bay hit a charted rock near Olsen Island in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The vessel carried 35,000 gallons of diesel fuel and sank quickly with no loss of life. A response was initiated, led by the USCG, with input from the owner, their response contractor, Chadux, and the contractor for the USCG, Alyeska/SERVS. The response lasted 20 days and involved 192 personnel, 20 spill response trained fishing vessels, the Valdez Star, and the CurrentBuster™ nearshore recovery system. By day six, over 12,000 gallons had been recovered and 19,500 gallons had evaporated or naturally dispersed. The mechanical response was very successful. The response also included major programs for protecting sensitive resources, informing the public and stakeholders, issue management, wildlife response programs and evaluations, decontamination, and waste management programs.
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Ihsan, Taufiq, Sarah Azzahra Hamidi, and Febyta Amanda Putri. "Penilaian Risiko dengan Metode HIRADC Pada Pekerjaan Konstruksi Gedung Kebudayaan Sumatera Barat." Jurnal Civronlit Unbari 5, no. 2 (October 16, 2020): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/civronlit.v5i2.67.
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Occupational Health and Safety really needs to be a consideration for industry in order to avoid work accidents. Accident prevention can be done by analyzing existing risks, one of which is the HIRADC method, namely identifying hazards (Hazards Identification), assessing risks (Risk Assessment) and controlling risks (Determining Control). This study aims to conduct a risk assessment in the Zone B Phase II project of the West Sumatra Cultural Building. As a managing contractor for the project, PT. X, which is a company in West Sumatra engaged in construction, has tried to prevent work accidents from occurring. However, in the implementation of this project, 12 work accidents were recorded for each of the three types of work, namely ironwork, formwork, and scaffolding. The results of the assessment obtained in the West Sumatra Zone B Phase II Cultural Building construction project have a significant risk. Significant risks need to be considered by contractor management and take corrective action. Recommended improvements are engineering, administrative controls, and use of Personal Protective Equipment.
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Boriskina, Yulia. "BIM technologies’ effect on transformation of a property life cycle." E3S Web of Conferences 91 (2019): 08030. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199108030.
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Property life cycle management is exposed to greater changes under impact of new BIM technologies and increasing demand for environmental approach. Many new technologies which BIM comprises, such as laser scanning, augmented reality, automate construction, distant access, renewable energy sources, affect management issues of project management leading to higher efficiency and environment protection via using greater cost predictability, improved schedule, optimized design, better coordination, and reduced energy and water consumption. Property life cycle management using BIM methods has priority over traditional management approach at each project stage, which generally leads to the extension of the life cycle and the construction of buildings with more environmentally friendly characteristics. The BIM management process affects all project parties. The article offers a special table which indicates changes for each participant: investor, developer, bank, designer, construction contractor, broker, tenant, project team, and re-conception team. Despite some controversial issues, like high costs and advanced skills of project participants, BIM management will be used by more developers, bringing economical and environmental efficiency for prolonged property life cycle.
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Wu, Liu, Soojin Yoon, and Kunhui Ye. "Modeling contractors' ecological protection efforts determination for expressway construction projects." Environmental Impact Assessment Review 91 (November 2021): 106669. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106669.
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Ostanina, E., and E. Titova. "The Protection of Consumer Rights in the Digital Economy Conditions – the Experience of the BRICS Countries." BRICS Law Journal 7, no. 2 (May 24, 2020): 118–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21684/2412-2343-2020-7-2-118-147.
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Online contracts are characterized by unequal economic opportunities. The consumer, traditionally, has fewer economic opportunities, the seller – more. Digitalization of consumer-seller relations did not solve the old problem of insufficient consumer protection, but rather exacerbated it. Now the consumer needs to be protected from unscrupulous actions of both the seller and the aggregator of the information on goods, works, and services, i.e. the owner of the site on which the consumer buys the good, orders the work or the service. Acontract concluded on a site is a special type of adhesion contract. If a site sells goods from different sellers (which often happens), the terms and conditions of the adhesion contract are determined not only by the seller, but also by the site owner. Thus, the economically weak party – the consumer, needs to be protected both against the seller’s abuse, and against the site owner’s abuse. The article compares the experience of regulating the relations between the consumer, the seller (contractor) and the information aggregator accumulated by the EU countries, on the one hand, and BRICS countries, on the other. It is concluded that the development of regulation in all the BRICS countries is currently moving towards providing the consumer with the widest information opportunities. It is necessary to support the idea of holding the e-commerce aggregator responsible for any failure to fulfill its obligations to the consumer. The responsibility is considered acceptable when the aggregator has not informed the consumer that it does not provide goods, work, services, or in cases of the aggregator’s gross negligence in identifying the user when registering a potential seller on the site. A separate problem is the public legal status of the online platform aggregator, since when an onsite contract is concluded, the consumer should not receive less secure goods than when a contract is concluded through an exchange of documents in the ordinary “paper” form.
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Morse, Janice M. "The Contracted Relationship: Ensuring Protection of Anonymity and Confidentiality." Qualitative Health Research 8, no. 3 (May 1998): 301–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104973239800800301.
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Tasker, Sybil, Vyjayanthi Krishnan, Stephan Bart, Anvar Suyundikov, Peta-Gay Booth, Anna Wight O’Rourke, Jianfeng Zhang, Bertrand Georges, and Scot Roberts. "2554. Safety and Immunogenicity of NasoVAX, a Novel Intranasal Influenza Vaccine." Open Forum Infectious Diseases 5, suppl_1 (November 2018): S68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.162.
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Abstract Background NasoVAX is a replication-deficient adenovirus-based vaccine designed to express influenza hemagglutinin in nasal epithelial cells when given as a nasal spray. In preclinical studies, NasoVAX was associated with divergent strain protection. Prior preclinical and clinical studies with the vector demonstrated lack of impact from baseline adenovirus immunity. Methods Sixty healthy adults were randomized to an A/California 2009-based monovalent NasoVAX formulation at doses of 109, 1010, or 1011 viral particles or saline placebo, all given as a 0.25 mL nasal spray in each nostril. Subjects were followed for safety, including solicited local and systemic side effects. Immune measures included hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) and neutralizing antibody (MN) at days 1, 15, 29, 90, and 180, and γ-interferon ELISpot at day 1 and 8. A parallel cohort of 20 similar subjects were dosed with Fluzone® injectable influenza vaccine containing an A/California 2009 component and had assessments at the same timepoints. The laboratory was blind to treatment assignment for these comparator samples. Results NasoVAX was well tolerated with no serious adverse events and no fever. Solicited symptoms such as nasal congestion, sore throat, and headache did not increase with dose and were not statistically different than placebo. Available immune response data are shown below. Conclusion NasoVAX intranasal influenza vaccine was well tolerated and elicited comparable antibody responses and nearly 6-fold higher cellular immune responses than a licensed injectable vaccine. Disclosures S. Tasker, Altimmune, Inc: Employee and Shareholder, Salary. V. Krishnan, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee and Shareholder, Salary. S. Bart, Altimmune, Inc.: Research Contractor, fee for research services. A. Suyundikov, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee, Salary. P. G. Booth, Altimmune, Inc.: Research Contractor, fee for research services. A. Wight O’Rourke, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee and Shareholder, Salary. J. Zhang, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee and Shareholder, Salary. B. Georges, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee and Shareholder, Salary. S. Roberts, Altimmune, Inc.: Employee and Shareholder, Salary.
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Hasler, W. L., A. Heldsinger, and O. Y. Chung. "Erythromycin contracts rabbit colon myocytes via occupation of motilin receptors." American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology 262, no. 1 (January 1, 1992): G50—G55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.1992.262.1.g50.
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Erythromycin stimulates gastroduodenal motility via action on motilin receptors. We evaluated erythromycin as a colonic muscle motilin agonist using in vitro rabbit colon studies. Isolated myocytes contracted to erythromycin with a half-maximal effective concentration of 2 pM and peak shortening of 22.4 +/- 2.5% at 1 nM, which was superimposable with the response to motilin. 125I-labeled motilin binding to colon muscle homogenates was saturable and specific with a dissociation constant (Kd) of 0.39 nM and maximal binding (Bmax) of 41 +/- 3 fmol/mg protein. Motilin displaced specifically bound 125I-motilin, with a Kd of 0.31 nM. Erythromycin displaced 125I-motilin but was less potent, with an inhibitory constant of 84.0 nM. Bmax values from displacement studies were similar to the Scatchard data. Motilin receptor protection from alkylation by N-ethylmaleimide preserved contraction to motilin and erythromycin but not acetylcholine or cholecystokinin, whereas protection with erythromycin preserved contraction to motilin but not other agonists. In conclusion, erythromycin binds to colon muscle motilin receptors present in densities similar to reported values for the upper gut. Furthermore, erythromycin contracts colonic myocytes via specific action on motilin receptors. Thus erythromycin may have colonic motor-stimulating properties by action on motilin receptors.
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Czerniak-Swędzioł, Justyna. "Rola pracodawcy w realizowaniu uprawnień pracowników związanych z rodzicielstwem." Przegląd Prawa i Administracji 113 (September 12, 2018): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1134.113.2.
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THE ROLE OF THE EMPLOYER IN REALIZING THE RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES RELATED TO PARENTHOODOver the last ten years, the Labor Code has signifi cantly expanded employees’ rights related to parenthood, and thus the role of the employer in the fi eld of their implementation has changed fundamentally.The employer remains obliged to fulfi ll the employee’s basic rights enumerated in the Labour Code as a parent. However, the Polish legislator excessively burdens the employer with the role of the sole contractor of these general social principles related to the protection of motherhood and family, which causes a clear upset in the implementation of the constitutional obligations of the state towards its citizens.Looking at individual stages of employment from the period of pregnancy, in which protection is particularly strong, through the obligation to exercise parental leave and obligations imposed on the employer to employ an employee after taking leave, on protection during the period of custody, these are clearly noticeable limitations and burdens for the employer. The burden imposed on a particular employer often remains completely disproportionate to its capabilities. The employer bears the costs of social policy, which should be implemented by the state, thus it is fulfi lling the role of the guarantor in securing social interests. The solutions adopted by the Polish legislator stand in clear opposition to the regulation of international law.The burdens currently imposed on the employer resulting from the provisions of the Labor Code could be implemented to a large extent by relevant public insurance systems. De lege ferenda, the obligation to protect motherhood and the family as a constitutional social obligation should be carried out jointly by the state and the employer. De lege lata, the lack of proportionality is clearly visible in the regulations in force and it signifi cantly limits the principle of economic freedom and employer’s property, in particular in relation to small entrepreneurs.
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Burgess, Christopher J. "Cold-Weather Cast-in-Place Segmental Construction for Long-Span Bridges." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1712, no. 1 (January 2000): 157–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1712-19.
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An innovative heating and monitoring method was developed and used for wintertime casting of the Wabasha Street Bridge in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The bridge’s twin 384-m (1,260-ft) box-girder structures slope 5 percent from atop Saint Paul’s bluffs on the Mississippi River’s north side down to the lower portion of Saint Paul. Each box girder is composed of two 122-m-long (400-ft-long) center spans and two 70-m (230-ft) approach spans. The deck width of 14.54 m (47 ft 8 in.) contains two 3.66-m (12-ft) travel lanes, two shoulders of 0.92 m (3 ft) and 1.83 m (6 ft) with a 3.36-m (11-ft) sidewalk, and 1.11 m (3 ft 8 in.) to account for the barriers. The superstructure consists of 4.88-m (16-ft) typical-length segments that are 6.10 m (20 ft) deep over the piers and 2.44 m (8 ft) deep at midspan and the abutments. The bridge was constructed in balanced cantilever fashion with form travelers. The contractor, the local concrete supplier, the city, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation worked together to develop an innovative mix that would withstand the frigid temperatures and also achieve 24 115 kPa (3,500 lb/in.2) compressive strength in less than 24 h to allow the stressing of the post-tensioning. To insulate and protect the curing concrete, reinforced plastic enclosures surrounding the form travelers housed three 316 761-kJ (300,000-Btu) propane heaters. A layer of plastic and a double layer of insulating blankets covered the top slab. Thermocouples in the segments provided temperature readings, which the contractor used to monitor the effectiveness of the cold-weather procedures. The forms, reinforcing steel, and previous concrete were heated above 10°C (50°F) by using plastic enclosures, propane heaters, and insulating blankets. The concrete arrived from the batch plant at approximately 21°C (70°F) and was still above 13°C (55°F) when it was pumped into the segments. Multiple thermocouples indicated that the top slab cured above 38°C (100°F) for several days, whereas the bottom slab and webs were about 11°C warmer. The contractor ran the propane heaters for 5 days after each pour or until the segments reached a 28-day strength of 41,340 kPa (6,000 lb/in.2). The segments reached the required 24 115 kPa (3,500 lb/in.2) strength for post-tensioning on the day after each pour, including pours made on days as cold as −28°C (−19°F). Only 3 working days were lost because of the cold, and the bridge was completed on time. The method of heating and protection used at the Wabasha Street Bridge proved that the segmental cast-in-place construction method is a viable option in cold-weather climates on major long-span bridges.