Masonry Magazine November 2010 Page. 42
INDUSTRY NEWS
educate workers and employers in industries with high injury and fatality rates; low literacy, young, limited English proficiency and otherwise vulnerable workers, and small business employers. They fund long-term programs that build safety and health competency within organizations.
OSHA awarded about $6.7 million to 30 organizations already providing occupational safety and health training, education and related assistance to their constituents, and that are seeking to expand and develop their capacity. Another $1.3 million in smaller pilot grants was awarded to 15 organizations that seek to lay the groundwork for a robust safety and health education program. The agency received a total of 166 applications for the capacity building grants.
This grant program is an important component of OSHA's efforts to provide workers in high-risk industries with training about job hazards and their rights. It also provides employers with crucial information about unsafe working conditions, mitigation strategies and their responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. For more information, visit www.osha.gov/dte/sharwood/index.html.
McCarthy Building, CHOC Children's Participate in
Project Playhouse Event
McCarthy Building Companies, in partnership with CHOC Children's, recently built a technologically advanced playhouse for HomeAid Orange County's 19th Annual Project Playhouse fundraiser. This is the second year that McCarthy and CHOC have participated in the event.
The playhouse was built with thousands of dollars in services and supplies donated by McCarthy Building Companies along with various subcontractors and vendors. The McCarthy and CHOC Children's playhouse is HomeAid's "opportunity drawing playhouse," the only playhouse that could be won by purchasing $2 raffle tickets. Six additional playhouses were donated by other building teams and sold at a live auction party on Sept. 10.
Named "Tween the House and the Pool," the 80-square-foot playhouse with a eight-foot open ceiling is a place where tweens can relax inside or lounge on the modular patio, with mosaic pools at the entryway. It was completed in part by McCarthy Heart Hats, a volunteer community outreach group led by the employees of McCarthy Building Companies. IMAS
ACI Mourns Loss of
Richard Stehly
Richard D. Stehly, president of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), passed
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