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Union News
Unions slam 'work until you drop' move
Unions have condemned government proposals to raise the retirement age, which could leave former workers in some of the poorest parts of the country receiving less than two years pension on average before they die. Announcing plans to raise the state pension age to 66 and to abolish the default retirement age, work and pensions secretary of Iain Duncan Smith said: 'People are living longer and healthier lives than ever, and the last thing we want is to lose their talent and enthusiasm from the workplace due to an arbitrary age limit. We also need to recognise that to meet the challenge of providing an affordable, stable pensions system in a society with ever increasing life expectancy, people will need to work longer.' But GMB national pensions officer, Naomi Cooke, said there weren't the jobs for older workers, adding: 'Increasing the pension age to 66 will lead to Glaswegian men living only two years beyond pension age while those in Kensington & Chelsea can still expect a 22 year retirement. Given those living in areas of the lowest life expectance are most reliant on their state pension it is obvious who is hit hardest by the government's latest regressive announcement.' Construction union UCATT said the majority of construction workers are forced to retire before the age of 65 as they are no longer able to perform their jobs due to ill health or injury. General secretary Alan Ritchie said: 'By increasing the retirement age the ConDems are effectively forcing many construction workers to work until they drop.' He added: 'Construction workers are particularly vulnerable to premature death, not only does heavy manual labour take a long term toll on the body, but construction workers are now the group most at risk of developing asbestos related diseases such as the incurable lung cancer mesothelioma. Given the long latency period of these diseases, they often manifest themselves when workers near retirement or soon after they retire.' Dave Prentis, general secretary of UNISON, said: 'It may be a choice for the fit and healthy to keep on going for another year at work, but for some, work takes a terrible toll on their health. Many workers across the public and private sector do very physically demanding jobs where carrying on until 66 is not a safe or practical option.'
- DWP news release. When should the state pension age increase to 66? - A Call for Evidence. GMB news release. UCATT news release. UNISON news release. TUC news release.
RMT warns of 'huge' rail safety risks
Rail union RMT has warned that a failure to update the country's rail system will create 'huge safety risks'. RMT was responding to an indication from the secretary of state for transport that train fares are going to be jacked up while modernisation and renewal work is to be shelved. Transport secretary Phillip Hammond told the Financial Times that fares could be increased by more than the expected 6 per cent. At the same time, electrification and high speed service developments are to be shelved and rolling stock renewals are to be scrapped, the minister indicated. Speaking from RMT's annual general meeting in Aberdeen, general secretary Bob Crow said: 'It could not be clearer, the government are planning to bleed rail passengers dry and attack essential modernisation programmes while ring-fencing the profits of the train operators.' He added: 'We could see fares jacked up by as much as 10 per cent while passengers are crammed into ancient carriages running on creaking track with huge safety risks the length and breadth of the country.' He said the union was planning a fightback by rail workers and rail users 'that will stop the government in their tracks.'
Six figure payout to injured shunter
A GMB member who was seriously injured when he was flung from a barrow truck while working at a haulage company has received £245,000 compensation. The man, whose name has not been released but who worked as a shunter at GCT in Thorne, was helping to load pallets on to wagons. As he reversed the truck to straighten it up and move forward it suddenly slid and spun around, throwing him off. His leg was trapped between one of the bars at the side of the truck and a barrier on a wall. It was crushed and he suffered a broken tibia. He continues to suffer constant pain and has limited mobility in his leg following the October 2006 incident. Les Dobbs, a senior organiser with GMB, commented: 'Haulage is a dangerous industry and unfortunately our members working in it do suffer serious injuries. All too often there is insufficient or non-existent observance of health and safety systems that will prevent or reduce accidents.' Carol Wild of Thompsons Solicitors, the law firm brought in by the union to handle the compensation claim, said: 'This was a serious accident that could have been avoided if the employer had ensured that there was proper maintenance and care of the workplace, which would have been a lot cheaper long term for the employer than having to pay substantial compensation to their injured employee.'
Unfit fitter finished by flawed floor
A Unite member has been forced to take early retirement as a result of injuries sustained when he tripped over a fire hydrant cover at work. Thomas Mirehouse, 63, from Maryport in Cumbria, has been left with a significant disability in his left shoulder after suffering the injury while working for United Utilities. The specialist high voltage electrical fitter was collecting equipment from the Porter Chadburn substation in Distington when the incident happened. A new link box had been poorly installed in the pavement and a fire hydrant cover had been left sticking out above the surface of the pavement. It caught his foot and he fell down banking, dislocated his shoulder and ended up with a massive tear to the rotator cuff which needed surgery. He can no longer lift his arm above shoulder height and cannot lift. His injuries were so bad he has been unable to return to work since the incident four years ago and was forced to take voluntary severance. In a union-backed compensation case, the company responsible for the poor tarmacing, Carillion, admitted liability and settled the claim out of court. Mr Mirehouse received a £125,000 payout. He said: 'Being forced to give up my job when I had gone so far in my career has been unbelievably frustrating. I loved what I did and I had been undertaking training for a promotion for a year before the accident. Now I've been forced to take early retirement and I can't enjoy the things I always imagined I would do during when retired because of my injuries. I can no longer play golf and have to get someone in to do any major work in the garden.'
Tube standards under threat from cuts
This week's confirmation by London mayor Boris Johnson that Transport for London has completed its takeover of the failed Tube Lines operation, has prompted a warning that planned job cuts on London Underground will undermine standards and safety. Rail union RMT says more than one in six Tube Lines posts are under threat. Following two days of strike action, RMT has confirmed a further 48 hours of action on Tube Lines between the evenings of Wednesday 14 July and Friday 16 July. RMT general secretary Bob Crow said: 'With TfL and the Mayor now taking control of the failed Tube Lines operation he has no excuse whatsoever for not intervening in the dispute over jobs and conditions which has left 535 out of 2,915 staff facing the prospect of being thrown on the scrap heap.' He added: 'The simple fact is that the job cuts being cooked up would make it impossible for the Mayor and his officials to get the tube upgrade works back on track and would have dire implications for tube safety as essential maintenance works back up in the system.' Mr Crow warned: 'Our members remain absolutely determined to fight to protect their jobs, their living standards and safety and service delivery across the tube network and will not sit idly by waiting for a tragedy to bring the management to their senses.'
Warning on government safety review
A government review of health and safety must not be allowed to undermine essential workplace protection, unions and campaigners have warned. David Cameron last month formalised a government call for Lord Young to review health and safety regulation, a process started pre-election by the Conservatives and which has already faced strong criticism from unions (Risks 462). The Tory peer has already indicated emergency services could be exempted from safety regulations, suggesting controls should primarily fall on traditional hazardous industries. New official statistics, however, record 42 deaths in the 'safe' service sector last year. The government's plans topped the agenda at the conference of mining union NUM last week, with miners revealing that the industry has become more dangerous in the last few years. NUM Yorkshire area executive member David Hopper said everyone had the right to go to work and come back safely. 'The increase in fatalities is an indictment of private industry,' he said. Calling for a tightening of corporate manslaughter laws, Mr Hopper said firms only get fined a few thousand pounds for any wrongdoing. Campaign group Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK) has asked for a meeting with Lord Young. It says it is 'so concerned about his unbalanced views and that he only seem to consider the so-called 'burdens on business' rather than the burdens on workers and their families, and the very real burden of employers externalising their cost onto the whole of society.' In an open letter to the peer, FACK indicates Lord Young should heed the lessons from BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. 'No-one watching the events in the Gulf can fail now to understand how one corporation's avoidance of health and safety measures can be externalised onto the wider community, not forgetting, as often is, the 11 workers killed, those injured and all their families' heartbreak and life long suffering.'
Other news
Enforcement bad on safety, terrible on health
Enforcement action by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has plummeted on almost all major indicators, the watchdog's board has been told. A paper to HSE's 30 June board meeting, prompted by an expression of concern by the board at formal enforcement levels, also indicates that while average fines have increased, a dramatic fall in the numbers of prosecutions mean the total amount levied in fines has fallen. The report notes: 'The number of prosecutions approved in 2009/10 is 46 per cent of the 1999/2000 level.' It adds: 'For enforcement notices, there is a downward trend from 1999/2000 to 2007/08, with then an upward movement. The 2009/10 level is 87 per cent of that of 1999/2000.' Investigations 'have also reduced significantly', the report says, so 'the 2009/10 investigation level is 37 per cent of that of 1999/2000.' The report to the HSE board suggests prosecutions on health issues are exceedingly rare - an HSE guesstimate indicates they are outnumbered 7-to-1 by safety prosecutions - despite work-related ill-health causing five times as much lost time as that resulting from injuries. HSE estimates work-related diseases also outnumber officially reported workplace injuries by five to one. The watchdog appears to have little confidence it can remedy this enforcement bias, with the report noting 'careful consideration of the effort put into prosecution activity needs to be made as to what the return of our efforts will be. It is not, therefore, an 'open and shut' case that automatically we should put more effort into prosecution activity for health if it displaces other activity, eg. service of notices that may be more efficient and effective way of improving standards.' This admission elicited a withering response from the Hazards Campaign's Hilda Palmer. 'It seems if you want to hurt or kill someone at work, you should choose to cause them to suffer long-term. It appears HSE has little intention of applying either the law or justice when it comes to diseases caused by work - with negligent employers causing often fatal long-term diseases at least 35 times less likely to end up in dock as those injuring workers.'
- Review of enforcement by FOD, paper to the HSE board, 30 June 2010 [pdf].
Son of Workplace Health Connect flops
An attempt to tweak a failed official initiative to provide health and safety advice to smaller, non-union firms has also been an expensive flop. An evaluation of the 'Healthy Workplaces Milton Keynes' pilot, a partnership between the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Milton Keynes Council advising small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), found it replicated the failings of its predecessor, Workplace Health Connect, with firms 'unlikely' to seek out health and safety advice and with demand for the service 'low'. The pilot, which ran from February 2008 until March 2009, 'was not cost-effective and its costs are likely to have outweighed its benefits', the evaluation for HSE found. It also found the service was used primarily by more enlightened firms, noting: 'There is still a need to find ways to engage less motivated SMEs with improving health and safety provision in the workplace.' The original failed Workplace Health Connect project (Risks 330) was created to replace a highly successful project using union 'Worker Safety Advisers' to provide advice to smaller, non-union, firms (Risks 124). An evaluation of this union-led project found: Nearly 73 per cent of employers said awareness had increased on health and safety matters and a third said communications had improved; over 75 per cent of employers said the pilot had led to them changing their approach, including revising or introducing new policies and procedures (61 per cent), having regular health and safety discussions with staff (21 per cent), and carrying out risk assessments (11 per cent). Nearly 70 per cent of workers said there was more discussion on health and safety. 'The government should accept roving union safety reps are the answer to improved safety in smaller firms, rather than unworkable, unwanted advisory services,' commented Hazards magazine's Jawad Qasrawi.
- Healthy workplaces Milton Keynes pilot: Evaluation findings, HSE research report RR809, June 2010 [pdf].
Directors need statutory safety duties
Most company directors are not taking health and safety seriously at boardroom level, so statutory directors' duties on safety are the only alternative, the findings of a government commissioned review suggest. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) board was ordered in 2008 to oversee an independent evaluation of voluntary measures taken to strengthen director leadership of health and safety. The newly published findings show that although awareness Institute of Directors (IoD)/HSE voluntary guidance had by November 2009 increased since a similar survey completed in September 2008, it was still only a minority (36 per cent) that had any idea of the existence of the October 2007 guide (Risks 330). Fewer than one in five (19 per cent) had read even a part of document, and less than half of these (48 per cent) took any action as a result. TUC head of safety Hugh Robertson said: 'This report confirms what we already knew - that most company boards don't know about the voluntary guidance and fewer still care to act on it. Company directors have had approaching three years to prove they are willing to make health and safety a boardroom issue. They've done nothing of the sort - most have done nothing at all - so the case for statutory duties is now unanswerable.' Calling for statutory safety duties on employers, UCATT general secretary Alan Ritchie said: 'This report demonstrates that self-regulation simply does not work. If companies are not compelled to do something they won't.'
- The report of the Steering Group overseeing an independent evaluation of measures taken to strengthen director leadership of health and safety, HSE, June 2010 [pdf]. UCATT news release.
Controversy over fitness to work tests
Iain Duncan Smith has denied reports that ministers are considering trebling 'fitness to work' tests on people claiming incapacity benefit. The work and pensions secretary said the government has at the moment 'absolutely no intention' of changing the 10,000 a week rate begun under Labour. Over 2.5m people are on incapacity benefit or employment support allowance - costing about £12.5bn a year. The Guardian reported that ministers were considering trebling the rate at which 'work capability assessments' of people on employment support allowance from the current 10,000 a week. Concerns were raised after comments this week from the chancellor, George Osborne, who signalled that efforts to take more of those on incapacity benefit off welfare will form a significant part of plans to cut the deficit. 'Incapacity benefit and employment and support allowance is a very large budget,' he said: 'We have got to look at all these things, make sure we do it in a way that protects those with genuine needs, those with disabilities, protects those who can't work but also encourages those who can work into work.' But Mr Duncan Smith told MPs said he knew there had been 'some speculation in the media' but the government intended to stick with its plan to launch a 'work programme' in 2011. 'We have absolutely no intention of changing this current plan', he said, adding the rate of assessments would remain at '10,000 claimants a week over the period.' Under assessments carried out under Labour on new employment support allowance claimants between October 2008 and August 2009, 39 per cent were deemed 'fit for work' and a further 37 per cent withdrew their claim before the test was complete. But welfare campaigners say those who have been assessed as fit for work include people with advanced Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis, or with severe mental illness, or awaiting open heart surgery (Risks 449).
Wood dust caused nose cancer
A widow has received compensation after her husband died of a work-related nose cancer. Barry Haw contracted the condition after being exposed to wood dust while working as a craftsman for Robert Thompsons Craftsmen Limited. Mr Haw spent much of his career working with hardwoods such as oak and beech. He became seriously ill in 2006 and died as a result of his cancer in late 2007. Sino-nasal cancer is rare, but studies have shown that exposure to wood dust significantly increases the risk of developing the disease. Mr Haw's widow Heather said: 'I lost my husband through this awful disease. All that Barry did, just like his father, was go to work in order to provide for his family. From the time he first developed the illness, he endured an awful lot from horrendous surgery to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. I would not want anyone else to go through that.' Ian Bailey, a specialist in occupational cancers with personal injury law firm Irwin Mitchell, said: 'It seems that there are some jobs where the incidence of the disease is relatively high and this includes furniture manufacturers and joiners. The link between the disease and exposure to hardwood dust is particularly strong with exposure to oak, beech and mahogany. Although this is not a widely known cancer it is something that craftsmen working with wood need to be aware of to allow them to take the appropriate precautions to protect their health.' The law firm is also seeking information to help in the case of Jonathan Cooke from Stourport on Severn, who died age 39 of stomach cancer on 4 December 2007. At the time of his death, neither the clinicians treating his illness nor an inquest made the link between Mr Cooke's cancer and his job. However, it has since become apparent his work at Dura Automotive for over 20 years could have exposed him to the potent human carcinogen vinyl chloride.
- Irwin Mitchell Solicitors news release.
- Information request: Anyone who worked at Dura Automotive in Stourport is being asked to contact Satinder Bains at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors on 0870 1500 100.
BP's unsafe UK record exposed
The troubled oil giant BP has been caught breaking health and safety regulations 54 times over the past five years in the UK, according to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) records. The official action against the British multinational relates to a series of maintenance and operating lapses which put workers and the environment at risk from major leaks, fires and accidents in the North Sea and elsewhere. As a result HSE has served BP companies with 21 legal enforcement notices since 2006, requiring lax and dangerous practices to be improved. The company, however, has not been prosecuted by the watchdog since 2005. The analysis of the HSE enforcement database by Scotland's Sunday Herald shows that four BP companies - BP Exploration, BP Oil UK, BP Chemicals and BP Shipping - have been hit with legal notices in the last five years. There have been 54 breaches of eight health and safety laws or regulations. A BP spokesperson said the company's safety record compared well to that of others, adding: 'We are never complacent and are continually looking at ways to reduce even the smallest of leaks.' But Juliet Swann of Friends of the Earth Scotland said: 'Companies like BP have for years been taking shortcuts with safety that risk human life, the environment and people's pensions.'
Government to adopt BP business model
John Browne, Tony Hayward's predecessor as chief executive of BP, has been appointed by the UK government to oversee moves to make Whitehall 'more businesslike.' Lord Browne was the architect of the much criticised BP cost- and safety-cutting strategy implicated in the Texas City refinery disaster, which killed 15, and a sequence of other safety and environmental crimes. The scope of the peer's shake-up of government will include all ministries, including those responsible for workplace safety and the energy industry. Commenting on his appointment as a 'lead non-executive director' in government, Lord Browne said: 'There is a great need for the best of the business community to be involved during these challenging times for the UK.' Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, said: 'His experience will be a real benefit in our drive to make Whitehall work in a more businesslike manner and I am looking forward to working with him to implement our vital reform programme.' Criticism of the company in the US continued last month. George Miller, chair of the US House Education and Labor Committee, said on 23 June BP was 'a multinational corporation with a dismal safety record in this country.' Much of this record relates to the time the company was under the direction of Lord Browne - Tony Hayward took over the reins in 2007.
Man killed in oil refinery blast
A worker has been found dead after a fire and explosion at an oil refinery in North East Lincolnshire. The man, whose name was not released in the immediate aftermath of the blast, was working near a crude oil distillation which exploded at Lindsey Oil Refinery in North Killingholme on 29 June. Two other people suffered minor injuries in the incident. More than 50 firefighters from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service were called to the plant where black smoke was seen billowing into the sky. Oil giant Total, which runs the refinery, said in a statement: 'It is with deep regret that Total Lindsey Oil Refinery can confirm that there has been a fatality following the fire and explosion at 11.57. The deceased has yet to be formally identified.' It said that formal investigations were being carried out by the police and the Health and Safety Executive. 'We are fully co-operating with these inquiries in order to understand exactly why this tragic incident occurred,' it added. The death was the second at the site in 10 days. Michael James Price, 51, was found hanged at the refinery on 19 June.
- BBC News Online on the 29 June and 19 June fatalities at the Total refinery site. Hartlepool Mail. Peterlee Mail.
Chemical leak at food depot injures 28
Twenty-eight people have been injured, seven requiring hospital treatment, in a chemical leak at a frozen food distribution centre in Staffordshire. The remaining 21 affected workers were treated at the scene. One man suffered severe ammonia burns to his arms in the incident in a compressor room at Brakes Chilled Food Distribution in Tamworth on 25 June. A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: 'The most seriously injured was a man in his 30s with 15 per cent burns having been contaminated by the chemical involved. He was decontaminated with water by firefighters and was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.' A spokesperson for Brakes said the leak happened during routine maintenance. 'Following the incident the centre was immediately and safely evacuated,' he said.
Company fined £280,000 after horror death
A brick firm worker who had only been on site for two weeks was killed when his head was crushed between concrete blocks and a metal platform. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted brick manufacturing company Hanson Building Products Ltd, after the death of Peter Clarke, 57, at the company's distribution plant in Coleshill on 26 April 2008. The company was fined £280,000 and ordered to pay costs of £29,204. Warwick Crown Court heard that Mr Clarke, was working next to a conveyor that transferred groups of concrete blocks from a kiln to a packaging area. His job was to remove samples of blocks for quality checking. Mr Clarke was standing next to a low bridge over the conveyor when he leaned forward to remove some blocks from the machine. Another worker changed the direction of the conveyor, crushing Mr Clarke's head between the concrete blocks on the conveyor and the metal platform. The operator of the 30-metre conveyor could not see Mr Clarke because his view was obscured. An HSE investigation into the incident found that the company had only identified the risk of workers trapping their fingers between the blocks and the stairway. Mr Clarke's widow, Barbara, thanked HSE inspector Peter Snelgrove for the sensitive way he dealt with the family. She added: 'Pete's death has devastated our family and for him to have lost his life due to a work-related incident is beyond belief. He was a much-loved husband, father and grandpa and our lives will never be the same without him.'
International News
Europe: Safety is an investment not a cost
Recession-hit firms should not let health and safety slip down the list of priorities, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has said. 'Spending on workplace health and safety should be seen as an investment and not a cost,' commented EU-OSHA director Jukka Takala at the launch of the agency's 2009 annual report. He warned against organisations 'abandoning long term benefits for short term gains, by reducing their health and safety budgets in difficult times. With 80 per cent of European managers reporting workplace accidents as the main concern, we cannot afford to make cuts in workplace health and safety.' EU-OSHA noted that workers are also facing the increasing likelihood that long-term absence from work will result in them never getting back into employment. According to Jukka Takala, 'the more enlightened employers have been introducing more part-time work and job rotation, to try to avoid redundancies among their workforce while still reducing their wage bills - they realise that retaining their experienced staff is an investment for the next upturn.'
Global: Condemnation of Canada's asbestos ruse
Moves to use public money to underwrite the cost of a massive expansion of asbestos mining in Canada are attracting condemnation in Canada and worldwide. This week, in a letter sent to Quebec leader Jean Charest, the Canadian Cancer Society urged the premier not to approve a Can$58 million (£36.6m) loan guarantee to Jeffrey Asbestos Mines, based in Quebec. Granting a loan guarantee to the mine will help spread the global epidemic of asbestos-related cancers and damage Canada's reputation as a global leader in public health, says the letter. The society said it was compelled to send the letter because of its own commitment to eliminating asbestos-related disease, as well as receiving many letters and emails from concerned health advocates in Quebec and from around the world. 'Resoundingly, these groups asked that we write to share our message of concern about the possible loan guarantee,' said Jimm Simon, the society's chair. The letter closes by recommending that Quebec's asbestos workers be supported by re-directing this money to a transition fund to help communities move away from asbestos mining. The Canadian Cancer Society is urging Canada's federal government to adopt a comprehensive strategy to address all aspect of the asbestos issue, including setting an immediate and clear timetable for phasing out the use and export of asbestos and providing transition support for affected communities. This 'just transition' model has been advocated by unions worldwide as a mechanism to address the social and employment consequences of 'sunsetting' hazardous industries. Demonstrations against Canada's support for asbestos exports have taken place in several cities around the world in the last week, including Seoul, New York and London.
- Canadian Cancer Society news release and position statement. Public Citizen news release. Montreal Gazette. CBC News. RightOnCanada.
Ireland: Voluntary fails, inspection succeeds
A dramatic decline in workplace fatalities and injuries has been delivered in Ireland after its safety agency boosted the number of official workplace inspections. A previous policy, where the watchdog introduced a US-style voluntary programme, was abandoned after it was followed by a marked upturn in workplace deaths. Ireland's Health and Safety Authority (HSA) says there were 43 reported fatalities in 2009, the lowest number reported since the establishment of HSA in 1989. There was also a decrease in the number of non-fatal accidents reported, down to 6,707 from 8,390 in 2008. The report showed that during 2009, HSA conducted 18,451 workplace inspections, an increase of 15 per cent on 2008. HSA chief executive Martin O'Halloran said there was an emphasis on support in the inspection programme for 2009. 'The main focus of our inspections is to help workplaces improve health and safety standards with the overall goal of reducing accidents,' he said. 'The vast majority of employers and employees want this.' In 2005, after a move towards self-regulation, HSA increased health and safety enforcement after witnessing a shock increase in workplace deaths (Risks 194). The move meant HSA had sidelined after less than a year a high profile pilot US-style 'voluntary protection programme', an approach which has been criticised by unions in the US and elsewhere as a dangerous alternative to health and safety enforcement (Risks 165).
USA: Sometimes deadly behaviour does not pay
Employers and corrupt public officials frequently get away with deadly behaviour - but not always. A contractor is now under house arrest and a crane inspector who accepted bribes is serving jail time after being linked to deadly workplace incidents in the US. Pennsylvania roofing contractor Christopher Franc was sentenced to three years' probation and six months' house arrest for wilful safety violations that resulted in the death of a worker, 29-year-old Carl Beck, who plunged 40 feet to his death while working on a steep roof last August. Investigators found that Franc had failed to provide any fall protection equipment to his workers. The US Attorney's office for the Western District of Pennsylvania prosecuted the case against Franc. It was handled by the Western Pennsylvania Environmental Enforcement Task Force, a 15-member group that meets regularly to address federal crimes against occupational health and the environment. The task force includes representatives from the FBI, the Department of Labor, the criminal division of the Environmental Protection Agency, and state and local authorities. Franc was also fined $539,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In a separate case, New York's former chief crane inspector has started a prison sentence of two to six years for taking bribes. Appearing in State Supreme Court in Manhattan for sentencing, the inspector, James Delayo, 62, said: 'I'd like to apologise to the city in general for letting them down.' He had pleaded guilty in March to approving cranes that he had not inspected, and issuing operator's licenses to people who had not earned them. The charges were brought in 2008 in the wake of two crane collapses, one that left seven dead and another with two fatalities. The bribes had not involved the type of crane involved in those collapses.
USA: Roofers face work-related early retirement
A combination of poor health and musculoskeletal disorders is forcing roofers into early retirement, a new study has found. The study of 979 roofers between the ages of 40 and 59 found that 10 per cent left the roofing trade within a year, and of those leaving, 60 per cent left their job due to chronic pain, work-related musculoskeletal disorders and poor health. When that group was examined in a one-year follow-up, researchers found that they were four times more likely to suffer mild economic impact, 19 times more likely to suffer moderate economic impact, and 6.5 times more likely to experience severe economic impact from their early retirement. The findings, based on a study of unionised workers in the US, are published in the July issue of the American Journal of Industrial Hygiene. 'We believe our research may understate the social and economic impact of injuries and diseases among aging workers in this industry,' said Laura Welch, the principal investigator and lead author of the paper. 'Our research drew from a population of union workers. Other research shows wage and benefit levels of non-union roofers are lower than that of union roofers, who have a retirement and disability pension system available to them.' The risk factors for leaving the trade identified in the study - age and physically demanding work - point to a need to modify work practices, a change in work organisation or modifying risk factors to prevent disability and the attendant economic impact, the authors said.
- CPWR news release [pdf].
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Issued: 2 July, 2010


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The Duhks
The Caribbeanized fiddle tunes are just the beginning. The Duhks are one of those bands that can pull off playing a series of songs in completely different genres because their own musical personalities remain distinct and consistent. Duhks founder Leonard Podolak is a banjoist who picked up the instrument after hearing Bela Fleck at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. (Fleck, in turn, produced the Duhks' U.S. debut album on the Sugar Hill label.) He and guitarist Jordan McConnell can effortlessly rough in basic melodic material for tunes ranging from traditional ballads ("The Wagoner's Lad") to the productions of classic and contemporary Canadian, British, and American songwriters. The Duhks do a reggae version of Sting's "Love Is the Seventh Wave," and in "Blue" they offer a level-voiced tale of child sexual abuse and its aftermath. Vocalist Jessica Havey adapts herself remarkably to the variety of music the Duhks perform, and on their debut album only a pair of traditional African American spiritual pieces fall flat.
The Duhks join fiddle tunes into "sets" in the traditional manner, and they do something similar with vocal pieces: a song may suddenly erupt into an instrumental interlude in a completely new rhythm. It might seem as though the music is about to fly apart, but the basic instrumental sound is distinctive enough that it hangs together. Eclecticism and stylistic pastiche are the order of the day, it's true, but here these trends seem to take on some sinew.
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From The Assemblyman's Desk
When I took office, I pledged that one of my top priorities would be the elimination of the toll on the Cross Bay Bridge. Hardworking families of Rockaway and Broad Channel have been burdened by the unfair toll for too long. In these tough economic times, we should be encouraging travel and commerce instead of charging another tax and forcing residents to pay a fee to go about their daily lives.
I applaud Governor Cuomo for including the residency rebate as part of his 2012 executive budget and I will urge my colleagues in the legislature to stand up for working families by supporting this proposal. The Governor has heard the calls of local residents who attended the many rallies, the thousands who have signed our petition and the hundreds who wrote letters in opposition to this onerous fee.
The residency rebate program is a step in the right direction and a huge victory for residents of Broad Channel and Rockaway.
I made this issue a priority because I truly understand the unfair weight that the toll places on the backs of hardworking families in Broad Channel and Rockaway. We use the bridge to go to and from work, drop our children off at school, go to the post office or the doctor and many other day-to-day activities. The toll doesn't just hurt our families; it also damages the local economy and is detrimental to the growth and prosperity of our small businesses.
Together with my colleagues, community and civic leaders, we have been working diligently for the elimination of the toll. I sent a letter to MTA President Joseph Lhota, asking that the MTA reinstate the full residency discount.
Shortly after, I sent Lhota a petition with 2,000 signatures in support of the toll's elimination. I want to thank Dan Tubridy for starting this fight over 30 years ago and community and District Leader Lew Simon who has been on the front lines at every turn.
I would be remiss if I did not mention the great reporting and editorial staff of The Wave newspaper. We are privileged in Rockaway to have a paper like The Wave that not only covers every story objectively and fairly but champions the issues that are so important to every resident of the Rockaways. The quality coverage over the year has not only helped to galvanize the community but also sent a clear message that the toll had to go.
While the Governor's proposal and eventual passage by the legislature is a huge victory for the residents of Rockaway and Broad Channel, the fight will not be complete until the toll is removed for every resident of Queens, permanently. I have proposed legislation (A.9000) that would finally put an end to this issue once and for all, so every resident of Queens could travel freely and local residents would no longer have to fear the toll being returned.
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A cricopharyngeal bar on lateral radiographs of barium swallows is noted in some of patients who undergo pharyngeal and esophageal radiographic examination. Reduced compliance by fibrosis has been the explanation for the bar. The bolus flow through the upper esophageal sphincter is the same as that observed in healthy subjects. The increased resistance to flow markedly raises the forces required to drive bolus passage. The intrabolus pressure in the hypopharynx of these patients is higher than in healthy subjects. The increase in intrabolus pressure depends on the distended pharyngoesophageal segment during swallows, with a more significant increase associated with a smaller upper esophageal sphincter diameter and an increase of bolus volume. Most of the time, cricopharyngeal bar is an unexpected and incidental observation on an esophageal radiologic examination. The bar may not cause symptoms, but when it is present dysphagia is the most frequent complaint. However, the cause of dysphagia may be pharyngeal and esophageal motor abnormalities and not the cricopharyngeal bar, a possibility that should be investigated. If the patient has dysphagia, he should be investigated by radiologic, endoscopic and manometric examinations. The treatment involves some options, as surgery, dilatation or botulin toxin.
KeywordsZenker's diverticulum Cricopharyngeal bar Upper esophageal sphincter (UES) Pharyngoesophageal segment (PES) Cricopharyngeal (CP) muscle
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Green's Cliff is a collection of non-roadside cliffs, visible north of the Kancamagus, in the heart of the White Mountains near Sawyer pond. The very high quality granite walls offer climbing up to three pitches tall on a full variety of features. Especially noteworthy are the classic cracks Greenpeace 12a, Stewart's Crack 5.9+, the wildly steep 357 Crack, currently clean aid 3, slab and face climbs Blurry Eyes 5.10, I'm Still Here 10+ and Strand and Lortie's test piece Black Flies Consume Jim Dunn 12d. The semi-outback nature of the cliffs has limited development in the past, but as of 2011 there are about 25 completed free pitches and half a dozen of aid, with a number of projects being worked on and potential for many more.
The Areas:
There are three main areas that have the same approach and then The Meadowbrook Slabs, which is on the same formation, but is approached via a different route.
The Main Wall is the broad cliff in the center, a little over 250 feet tall and a bit over 1/3 mile wide. It is the most developed of the three, with a number of NH classic quality routes. It faces south east, so gets sun early. The approach trail for the area will drop you off at the middle of this cliff
The Western Wing/The Alcove To the left of the Main Wall, past 2 intermediary slabs, is a large expanse of rock up to several hundred feet tall that includes a section known as The Alcove, a large steep cave like area of corners and cracks. Currently, most of the routes here have only been aided and await cleaning and free ascents. The impressive overhanging 357 Crack is found in the Alcove. Currently this area is probably best approached by hiking up and left from the far left side of the Main Wall and then dropping down along the edge of the slab to the Alcove, though in the past people used to hike in from Meadowbrook Slabs.
The Eastern Crags lie to the north east of the Main Wall, nearer Sawyer Pond. There is quite a lot of rock here, but only one known route as of 2011. Premarital Blisters 5.11. There is much potential here, with many crack lines up to two pitches, but being within the Sawyer Pond Scenic Area, new routers should be aware of the restriction on using power tools and camping. Combined with the hike in to the Main Wall, the approach is a bit arduous, best accomplished by dropping down from the fire pit at the Main Cliff than following a semi-trail to the north until you can drop down a steep gully to the crags.
There are two main ways in to Green's. For both ways a mountain bike is highly recommended and will get you in most of the way and save a great deal of time. The first route entails parking at the start of Rob Brook road, a gated forest road on your left a few miles up Bear Notch rd. from the Kancamagus. You ride in here. At a little over 2.5 miles, just past where The Brunel trail crosses the road and past the right turn that takes you to Owls, the main road makes a sharp bend to the right. Take the first right after this bend, onto a smaller forest road (N44.02270 W71.35855) and stay straight on this as it takes you up along the north slope of Birch Hill and onto a plateau. At the end of this flat section you may see Green's in front of you and the road will start to curve left and down the hill. Very shortly (3.9 miles from the start), on your right, you will see a boulder with a cairn and more cairns leading down an old log skidding trail between two orange chevron signs, marking the point where you ditch your bike and head up the skidder trail on foot. (N44.03062 W71.37988) You will immediately cross a stream. There is a beaver dam just upstream, so depending on their activity, you may have to work your way around the various outflows, but basically head back looking for more cairns and you will be on the continuation of the old, partially overgrown skidder trail. You now have a 1.3 mile pleasant hike along skidder and climber trails. It should be clear going with cairns and some blue tape showing the way. Along the way you will cross another, smaller stream that is well above the beaver activity and a good source to fill up your water jugs (down stream a little bit are some good spots) The climber's trail breaks up the hill from the skidder trail right after the last stream and drops you off at the middle of the Main Wall at (N44.03579 W71.39961)
The second approach entails parking along the side of the Kanc just west of Passaconaway Campground at a currently bouldered off dirt road into a small logging area (N43.99838 W71.37937), heading back(north) a few hundred yards, doing a shallow river crossing, then continuing riding along straight through Swan's Junction, taking your next left and riding along until you get to the same point where you dump your bikes (this time on your left). The Rob Brook Road way is best when conditions are drier, as Birch hill can get pretty muddy. They are about equal time wise, with the river way slightly shorter in distance. It is about 1 1/2 hours to the cliff, up to a few hours if it is your first time, no bike and with an overloaded pack. The ride out either way is a blast!
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island health officials are apologizing for getting key facts wrong when they suspended a Pawtucket dentist's license to prescribe controlled substances.
The dentist, Demetrius James Photopoulos, had his license suspended in October on allegations that he improperly prescribed drugs including hormones and steroids. The Providence Journal reports that the state Department of Health recently disclosed that it reinstated Photopoulos' license Nov. 6.
The Health Department released a statement saying that after it suspended the dentist's license, it learned that the facts used to discipline him were wrong. Officials say the facts were obtained from the department's prescription monitoring program, which contained inaccurate information.
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A Gainesville man was arrested Tuesday on charges related to sexual battery on a child.
Jerome Robinson, 38, was charged with sexual battery of a person under the age of 12, according to an Alachua County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
The child told investigators that more than 20 instances of sexual activity occurred over several years.
According to the report, Robinson admitted he had molested the child and committed certain sexual acts but denied having sexual intercourse with the child.
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Travelers face tighter security and longer lines because of new airport rules in the USA and UK after a plot to blow up airliners bound for the USA was uncovered. With a busy travel weekend ahead, here's what you need to know:
Q: What can't I pack in my carry-on bag?
A: The new rules ban almost all liquids, creams and gels from being carried aboard flights. That means you should not pack sunscreen, lotion, shampoo, toothpaste, hair gel or beverages in a carry-on. Those items must be put in your checked bags. If you are in doubt about an item, pack it in a checked bag or leave it home.
Despite some rumors — and an incorrect early post on American Airlines' website Thursday — there are no new restrictions on laptops, cellphones or other electronics on any flight originating in the USA.
Q: Are the rules different in the United Kingdom?
A: If you're on a flight leaving the United Kingdom, there are more restrictions: You will need to check all your luggage — that means no carry-ons whatsoever — and every passenger will be hand-searched at security checkpoints. Only a few personal items, such as pocket-size wallets and purses, glasses (but not cases), medications, diapers and female sanitary items (unboxed), and essential travel documents are permitted. A bag used to carry those items must be plastic, "ideally transparent." On flights to the USA, passengers will be searched again at the gate before they board.
Q: Do the stricter rules in the UK also apply to flights from the USA to the UK?
A: No, only to flights leaving from the UK. However, passengers connecting through the UK should remember that the stricter rules will apply to their flights leaving the UK.
Q: Are there any exceptions to the new rules in the USA?
A: A few. You can still bring baby formula, breast milk or juice if you're traveling with a child; prescription drugs if your name is on the bottle; and insulin or other "essential" non-prescription medications. Screeners should not make you sample the liquids.
Q: Can I still bring medicine along if it's not in liquid form? What about bars of soap?
A: Yes, it is OK to put those in a carry-on bag.
Q: If I forget to remove liquids or gels from my bags before I get to the security checkpoint, what will happen?
A: Screeners will ask you to put them in a checked bag or give them to someone who isn't traveling. Otherwise they will be confiscated.
Q: Am I allowed to purchase toothpaste, drinks or other liquids after I get through security and then take them aboard the flight?
A: No. You are not allowed to carry aboard any liquid, no matter when or where you purchased it.
Q: Why can I put liquids and gels in a checked bag but not carry them aboard?
A: Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Amy Von Walter said authorities are concerned that liquids could be one part of a bomb, not necessarily a fully assembled explosive. If those parts were in carry-on bags, someone could put the bomb together in flight; if they were in the cargo hold, he couldn't.
Q: Besides the ban on liquids and gels, what else will be different about security?
A: The TSA said screeners will be checking passengers more thoroughly at checkpoints, including inspecting more bags by hand. They also will be searching some passengers a second time immediately before boarding — a practice instituted shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks but discontinued several years ago.
Q: Will I have to wait longer in lines?
A: Most likely. The government generally advises that you get to the airport at least two hours before your flight. But with tougher searches, authorities said, you should check with your airline. United and Continental, for example, are advising passengers to arrive three hours ahead for both domestic and international flights.
Q: How long will these new rules last?
A: That's not clear. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the rules would be "constantly evaluated and updated when circumstances warrant." Chicago Aviation Commissioner Nuria Fernandez said the tighter restrictions will remain in place for at least 12 to 72 hours.
Q: Are other countries or airlines banning liquids in carry-on luggage?
A: Yes. Canada has banned gels and liquids from carry-on bags on all flights. The new restrictions also apply to all flights entering the USA and to flights from France to the UK, USA and Israel.
Q: Since I can't take a carry-on bag from the UK, will I have to pay to check excess luggage?
A. Most airlines are waiving the fees for excess baggage; for example, American now allows up to two excess pieces.
Q: Do airport screening machines pick up liquid explosives?
A: Most screening machines for checked bags aren't designed to pick up liquid explosives, says explosives expert Jimmie Oxley of the University of Rhode Island. But they could be adjusted to pick up many common ones.
Q: What if I have an airline ticket and I want to cancel?
A: Most European and U.S. airlines are letting travelers postpone or cancel flights over the next few days, waiving penalty fees for changes and easing restrictions on what otherwise would be unrefundable tickets.
At American, those traveling within/between the USA, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (tickets bought by Aug. 9) can change travel dates up until Sept. 1 or get a refund in the form of a travel voucher. Fliers going to, from or through the UK have similar options with a bit more flexibility.
United allows passengers who are traveling between the UK and USA to make one change to their itineraries without any fees. The revised policies apply to people who fly between Aug. 10 and Sept. 1, with tickets purchased on or before Aug. 10.
Delta is allowing a one-time ticket change without a fee for passengers scheduled to travel to, from or through Aberdeen or Edinburgh, Scotland, and London, Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton, England. The policy applies to travel dates from Aug. 10-Sept. 1; tickets must be reissued by Aug. 13 and travel completed by Sept. 1.
Northwest advises domestic travelers to consider checking all of their luggage and will waive normal change fees for passengers ticketed to, from or through the UK through Aug. 20. They can postpone travel for up to one year from the date their tickets were issued, as long as they rebook by Oct. 31.
Continental says passengers mid-trip and in Europe are being allowed to extend or cut short their trip without penalty. This includes changes to an alternative airport.
US Airways will allow passengers already ticketed on flights from Aug. 10 to Sept. 1, to London, Manchester or Glasgow to cancel, change or get refunds without penalty.
Southwest passengers holding reservations for travel through Aug. 14 can rebook for travel within 14 days or fly standby without paying any additional charge.
British Airways says only passengers due to fly to or from the UK Thursday and today can rebook or get refunds without penalty.
Q: What are tour operators doing?
A: A spokesman for the 130-member U.S. Tour Operators Association said most companies were following the airlines' lead and allowing changes or cancellations to the United Kingdom without penalty but added that there have been no operator-imposed itinerary changes or tour cancellations. One major tour company, Globus, was charging a $200-per-person cancellation fee for travelers who hadn't purchased insurance and wanted to cancel a trip to or through the UK through Monday.
Q: If I have travel insurance, am I covered?
A: It depends. Most travel insurance policies will reimburse travelers for expenses they incur as a result of delayed or canceled flights, such as the cost of a hotel room at the airport.
"This would be the case for travelers flying in or out of Heathrow or other destinations impacted by this situation," says Travel Guard's Dan McGinnity.
Still, most travel insurance policies won't reimburse the cost of upcoming trips that travelers cancel themselves because they're skittish. For example, if you're heading to London this weekend, and the plane is going, you can't get your money back if you choose not to board.
Some travel insurance policies do reimburse travelers for trips disrupted due to a terrorist incident, but such provisions haven't been triggered in this case, since the plot was foiled before it occurred.
One advantage for insurance holders: Many policies include around-the-clock emergency travel assistance that can be accessed worldwide for help in rebooking canceled flights, rerouting trips and making or changing hotel reservations. McGinnity says Travel Guard's call volume from policyholders spiked 70% on Thursday.
Q: How are the online travel agencies handling cancellations?
A: Priceline's cancellation policies "will be in lockstep with each individual airline," says spokesman Brian Ek. "If your airline ticket is eligible for a cancellation and you also bought a hotel room and/or rental car through us, we also will allow you to cancel the room or car."
Expedia is currently waiving cancellation fees, helping customers rebook and working with its travel partners to waive their fees.


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Growth rates of copepods in the southern Benguela upwelling system: The interplay between body size and food
Limnol. Oceanogr., 44(2), 1999, 382-392 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.2.0382
ABSTRACT: Copepod growth rates were estimated from shipboard measurements of egg production of adult female Calanus agulhensis, Calanoides carinatus, Nannocalanus minor, and Centropages brachiatus and molting rates of juvenile stages (N6-C5) of C. agulhensis. Data were obtained during austral spring and summer of 1989-1995 in the southern Benguela upwelling system. While maximum growth rates showed less than a threefold decline over the body-size range examined (525-2,763-um total length), probably owing to allometric considerations, mean growth rate decreased by one order of magnitude, suggesting limitation of growth rate by an environmental factor. Most of this decline in mean growth rate was attributable to food limitation of large copepods. Frequency distributions of growth rate under low food densities were severely skewed toward slow growth rate for large copepods, whereas they were more symmetric for smaller copepods. In contrast, at high food concentrations, the frequency distributions had a high degree of symmetry for all copepods. These frequency distributions were interpreted in terms of a probabilistic model describing the encounter rate of copepods with suitably sized food particles. The effect of food limitation on growth rate was evaluated by regressing the coefficient of variation of growth rate against body size. A strong positive relationship was found (r2 = 0.94, P < 0.001), indicating that small copepods were always growing well, whereas the growth rate of large copepods was more variable. It is suggested that this difference is a consequence of the ability of small copepods to consume small particles, which are present at a relatively constant background density.


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Artist biography
Therese MS Roevik is studying Photomedia (Bachelor of Visual Arts) at the School of Art at the Australian National University. Coming from Norway to undertake her degree in Australia is challenging on many levels, and these experiences influence and inspire her work. Her interests lie in women's psychology (especially female identity) and cinematography, which results in different depictions of psychological experiences employing video, photography and performance.
Artist statement
My initial inspiration was the Red Riding Hood wall hanging by Olga Basylevich in the Australian Journeys gallery. I was then intrigued by the sexual interpretations of the fable and wanted to focus on Red Riding Hood's journey through the forest, with particular interest in women's triangular relationship to her own sexuality. I drew connections between the symbolism of the forest in Red Riding Hood and the forest in works by Edvard Munch, with a focus on the painting Woman in Three Stages (also been interpreted as Sphinx). In my artistic interpretation, I wanted to utilise similar connotations with the ocean for purity, the forest for temptation and lust, and the nun within a state of the in-between. In viewing my work, the viewer is essentially the wolf/the voyeur, who gazes upon the three versions of a woman.
In regards to the music, I strived to capture a soundscape that would illustrate the different psychological states. The sound is an improvisational vocal piece recorded by Jenny Lu, set to three poems written by myself. The poems are inspired by Munch's painting and also by the purity of the ocean and the mystery of the forest.
My work is originally a video installation on three separate walls projecting three videos: the virgin (10:19), the whore (8:24), the nun (1:22). The sound is played separately which allows the viewer to watch videos individually as well as together.
Artist work
Title: Trinity
Medium: video
Date: September 2011
Artist inspiration
I was inspired by two works in particular: the wall hanging by Olga Basylevich within the Australian Journeys gallery and a painting by Edvard Munch called Woman in Three Stages. Within the painting there is, from my interpretation, a depiction of a virgin, a nun and a whore, which inspired me to recreate these characteristics in relation to Little Red Riding Hood.
Edvard Munch's works as well as his diaries significantly influenced my work. One quote by Munch in particular refers to 'Woman in Three Stages':
I have seen many women that have thousands of shifting facial expressions, like a crystal. But I have never met one who so decidedly has only three — but these extremely strong ones… exactly as in my painting of the three women…. You have an expression of deepest sorrow… like medieval weeping madonnas. I have never before seen such an expression of effusive happiness [as yours] … and then there is your face filled with desire, and that is what frightens me. That is the sphinx's annihilating countenance, and that is where I see woman's most dangerous characteristics.
Reinhold Heller, Munch: His Life and Work, London, John Calmann and Cooper Ltd, 1986; 166.


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Tips on How to find a roofer in Oregon
This is my first post to this board and I am really interested in getting in-put on how I might go about locating a roofer to do a tear down and re-roof.
I don't know wheter I have fallen into some Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole or what but I have tried and tried to get a roofing contractor who might be able to get to my job before he is scraping snow off my roof to do it and I have had no luck.
We did something really stupid by trying to be responsible and didn't KNOW that we needed to secure a roofing contractor very early in the year. Instead we worked, dilgently saved and made sure we had the money to do the job and THEN started calling contractors in July. They laughed.
I am just at wits end and really want to find someone who is qualified to do this job. I have had so many fly by night "aw we don't need no insurance, license or bond" types that I am pulling my hair out.
I have advertised for a roofer and the only calls I get are from other hapless Oregon homeowners looking for the same thing and begging me to pass along names of people they might call. Heck, I could start a business just finding people roofers if I could only find mylsef some in the first place.
So, any advice will be greatly appreciated. I am already offering a completion bonus and that has done no good. Will be posting more questions...re: dealing with wildly varied bids, etc.
I know your just E of Salem, have you tried roofing contractors out of Salem?
Have you tried word of mouth. LIke going to local coffee shop and asking the oldtimers there. Key being the oldtimers they know everything about the town.
Drive around your neighborhood. If you notice any new roofs, or better yet actually know of which homes got new roofs this year, or even better, actually SEEING roofers working on a house, get their referral.
Most will be the local pros who can also do your roof. Don't worry about those laughing at you. They just want to double their profits. That's how they do business. Some are even just that way by nature. :whistling2:
Some of us are booked until February '07 if it doesnt snow or freeze. If it does, we might be looking at April or May.
I am 100% absolutely positive that you can find someone to work on your roof, but I cant guarantee they will do a proper job or carry all the proper insurances.
RE: finding a roofer in Oregon
Apparently, this is the year that everyone wants a roof in Oregon as the one post mentioned, many companies are booked to the end of the year and beyond.
I am really struggling to find someone and am dealing with WILDY varying bids and timeframes so I appreciate all advice and assistance.
Maybe some kindly roofer could help me out and tell me if I am on the right track. I have been using the online "Get a Quote.net" system to get baseline set of costs for the job and then punched in current material costs, etc. Based on my generous figuring this roof ought to bid out at about $2400-$2800...It is a tiny plain roof.
Here's the deal I have a 28 x 43 foot home with NO dormers, a single skylight, two stacks and 8 roof vents. Underlying repairs estimated by all at 1-2 sheets which are not included in bids and have been priced at about $45 per sheet labor and materials. (the exception of the $4600 Home Depot roofing bid which priced sheet replacement at $72 sheet labor/mat) I have four bids (only one who can take on the job in the next 45 days tho') and they have bid as follows:
$2600 (Elk raised profile)
$3800 (Elk raised profile)
$4600 (Gaf 30 arch. whose name escapes me)
$5100 (Standing seam) nailed :( not screwed)
The $3800 bid is from a local guy with a contractors license, kinda the good ol'boy who does a lot of the local roofs. Not a pot to pee out of, kinda "work ya in before Elk season"- sorta laid back if you know what I mean... His bid is high and he will only will offer the warrenty required by law in Oregon- one year. However, he is a "live one" so to speak. He prefers to do standing seam but his application methods are not to spec.
I guess my biggest current issue is that when/if I find a contractor to bid this job just how much do I have to know about the finer points of roofing? I don't want to run these guys off but on the other hand, I have had three contractors who "phone bid" the job and they did not apply the material to spec. In each case, they stapled rather than nailed and that specifically nullified any material warrenty of the product they were quoting on.
I already know WAY more about roofing that I ever wanted to and I am just trying to figure out how in the heck to find someone who I don't have to quiz about every last detail of the project...Standing seam bid is a perfect example. Bid neglects to state he planned to nail rather than screw every 10 inches (spec for OSB) and those finer points usually aren't outlined in a contract... How as a consumer, should I approach this process? I don't want or need to spend my time following a contractor around making sure he does the right thing. Just how specific do I have to make a contract in order to get the roof applied corretly?
Thanks for any advice you can offer.
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Life is often compared to a jungle.with good reason. Both can hold unfriendly predators. You don't want to turn your back on them, stumble into their territories, or have them sneak up on you. But all too often, that's just what happens in the jungle of life -- unless you play by the rules. If you've ever felt like there's no right way to turn you're in luck! Author Max Anders pinpoints how you can steer clear of unnecessary pain and confusion and live life to its fullest by understanding "laws of the jungle."
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A friend posted this picture on Facebook and it is definitely an OMG moment.
Are you kidding me???? It looks like she works for Lowe's. Would you let your cashier dress like this? I'd be scared to ever shop there again.
Obviously this is some proof that the Mayans might be right about next weeks end of the world prediction. What is this world coming too?


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