Masonry Magazine September 2009 Page. 35
INDUSTRY NEWS
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News From MCAA
By Tim O'Toole
New Safety Products Available
The MCAA has added more than 12 new safety products to the MCAA Virtual University that are now available for purchase. New products being offered include:
Construction Safety Trainer Kit ($425)
This kit is an essential tool for training employees on how to maintain a safe and secure workplace. This kit makes it simple to stay on top of OSHA Construction-related issues, and it is a perfect resource for the basis of the OSHA 10-hour and 30-hour safety-training courses. This kit includes OSHA Standards for the Construction Industry, What Every Supervisor Must Know About OSHA-Construction, and CCH Safety Trainer's Kit CD.
Construction Health and Safety Technician ($249)
This consists of more than 900 questions, answers and explanations for subject matter, including Program Management with eight subtopics; Worksite Auditing with three subtopics, Training with four subtopics, and Professional Responsibility with three subtopics.
OSHA 10-Hour Construction Outreach Study Guide ($39.99)
This new, 75-page Study Guide will ensure you are ready to take the final exam to receive your OSHA DOL Card. The Study Guide will assist you throughout the online course and can also be used as a future reference manual. The OSHA 10-Hour Construction Industry Outreach Training Program is also available through the MCAA Web site (www.masoncontractors.org).
OSHA Standards for Construction ($39.95)
This book contains the occupational safety and health standards for the construction industry issued by OSHA, effective December 2006. This is not an official OSHA publication; however, it reproduces the full text of regulations contained in the official OSHA government version at Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 1926.
Smithsonian Houses
Bobcat Archives
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History acquired 56 cubic feet of records from Bobcat Co. This donation includes corporate records relating to American manufacturing and marketing as well as business development. Housed in the museum's Archives Center, Craig Orr and Alison Oswald, these papers join the museum's extensive collection of agricultural, industrial and business papers. A selection of these records is scheduled to be on view from Nov. 30 through Jan. 17, 2010.
The Bobcat Co. records focus primarily on production, marketing and advertising. They span a period from the 1940s to the present, and illustrate the progression of a once-small, family-owned company that emerged as an industry leader. The donation includes photographs, product literature, advertisements, employee newsletters, drawings, scrapbooks and audiovisual materials. The collection also contains notes on a 1985 trip to Japan, during which employees learned about Japanese manufacturing and engineering techniques, some of which were implemented in Bobcat factories. These papers are available for research and complement the Archives Center's agricultural holdings, which include the Everett Bickley Collection, the William C. Kost Farm Records and the Southern Agricultural Oral History Project.
To learn more about the museum, visit http://americanhistory.si.edu. IMAS
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