Negotiated
Rulemaking to Develop
Worker Safety Standards
for the Use of Cranes
and Derricks in Construction
Roofing Contractor,
April 1, 2005
This article offers a
summary of the C-DAC consensus
proposal including new
definitions such as qualified
person and competent person
and issues such as Ground
Conditions, Electrical
Hazard Identification
and Mitigation, Crane
Operator Qualifications
and Certification, Crane
Inspection, Crane Operations,
Additional Species of
Cranes, Crane Hazards,
Signals, Operator’s
Certification Exam, and
Emergency Response.
Negotiated
rule on crane safety nears
finish line Safety + Health Magazine,
August 2006
Whether the project is
an office tower, hotel,
stadium or highway-bridge,
giant cranes that dot
America’s construction
landscape are surefire
signs of vibrant economic
and community activity.
But OSHA and construction
industry stakeholders
fully understand that
cranes – and the
machinery that puts them
into operation –
are complicated and can
pose significant dangers
to workers and the public,
and they have been zealously
addressing the hazard.
“Crane
Rule Committee Under Way;
Facilitator to Lead Members
Through Process” BNA Occupational
Safety & Health Reporter,
July 31, 2003
Work began July 30 on
revising the crane and
derrick standard of the
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration
when 23 committee members
gathered for the first
meeting of the Crane and
Derricks Negotiated Rulemaking
Advisory Committee (C-DAC),
in Washington, D.C.
“Final
Agreement Reached on All
Issues At Crane Rulemaking
Group's Last Meeting” BNA Occupational
Safety & Health Reporter,
July 15, 2004
A federal rulemaking advisory
committee that spent a
year hammering out agreements
for a revision of the
worker safety standard
for cranes and derricks
finished its work July
9, having voted to make
all its previously tentative
agreements into final
ones. "We have
reached final consensus
on all issues," Susan
Podziba, the facilitator
for the Crane and Derrick
Negotiated Rulemaking
Advisory Committee, said
amidst applause after
the final vote.
“Great
Progress” International Cranes,
April 2004
C-DAC is only the second
time that OSHA (Occupational
Safety and Health Administration)
has revised a standard
using the negotiated rulemaking
process.
Occupational Hazards,
July 16, 2004
The fact that OSHA's Crane
and Derrick Negotiated
Rulemaking Committee (CDAC)
reached consensus on most
major issues within one
year after beginning shows
the agency learned valuable
lessons from its previous
negotiated rulemaking
effort with the steel
erection standard, participants
and observers say.
All
Appropriate Inquiry Negotiated
Rulemaking for Brownfields
Redevelopment
“EPA
Issues Final Rule Setting
Criteria For 'All Appropriate
Inquiry' Assessments” BNA Daily
Environment Report,
November 1, 2005
Entities seeking to buy
property that may be contaminated
with hazardous substances
will have to assess those
sites using formal investigatory
criteria set out in a
final rule to be published
Nov. 1 if they want superfund
liability protection.
“EPA
Administrator Signs Proposed
Rule Setting Standards
for Site Assessments” BNA Environmental
Due Diligence Guide,
September 16, 2004
A proposed rule that would
set standards for conducting
assessments of potentially
contaminated properties
was signed by Environmental
Protection Agency Administrator
Mike Leavitt Aug. 23 and
published in the Federal
Register Aug. 26 (69 FR
52542)
“All
Appropriate Inquiry Fact
Sheet” Environmental Times,
Summer 2003
What is “All Appropriate
Inquiry?” All appropriate
inquiry refers to the
requirements for assessing
the environmental conditions
of a property prior to
its acquisition.
“Unanimous
Decision Reached in 'All
Appropriate Inquiry' Real
Property Assessment” MBA Commercial/Multifamily
NewsLink, November
20, 2003
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) conducted
the final in a series
of meetings from November
12 to 14, aimed at crafting
new regulation regarding
environmental property
inspections. The new proposed
regulation provides an
“all appropriate
inquiry,” (AAI)
standard that would replace
the American Society for
Testing Materials (ASTM)
Phase I assessment.
“Talking
With The Enemy” Boston Globe,
January 28, 2001
Author(s): Anne Fowler,
Nicki Nichols Gamble,
Frances X. Hogan, Melissa
Kogut, Madeline McComish,
and Barbara Thorp
For nearly
six years, leaders on
both sides of the abortion
debate have met in secret
in an attempt to better
understand each other.
Now they are ready to
share what they have learned.
“Tough
talk turns to trust” The Christian Science
Monitor, May 8, 2001
WATERTOWN, MASS. It's
a dialogue few could have
imagined in the wake of
a fatal attack on two
neighboring clinics that
offer abortions. Certainly
not Nicki Nichols Gamble,
then head of Planned Parenthood
League of Massachusetts,
for whom going to that
first meeting with abortion-rights
opponents in 1995 was
"a little like going
to Africa." On the
pro-life side, Barbara
Thorp, too, felt anxious
- though curious.
All
Things Considered
January 19, 2003
The Public Conversations
Project
Forum
Promotes Dialogue Among
Abortion Supporters, Opponents
They came
together, reluctantly,
in the aftermath of violence.
In December
1994, two women were shot
and killed, and several
others wounded when a
gunman opened fire in
two Boston-area women's
health clinics.
The shootings
prompted calls from then-Gov.
William Weld and Cardinal
Bernard Law for leaders
on both sides of the abortion
debate to start talking...
to lower the rhetoric
and calm inflamed passions.
Six women
-- three from each side
of the debate -- answered
the call, and agreed to
meet with each other,
secretly, four times the
following year.
Those four
meetings grew into a series
of conversations that
would last seven years.
Radio Show, Humankind
Uncommon
Ground
What brought
pro-life and pro-choice
advocates together for
dialogue?
What did the women who
participated in the dialogue
learn?
Why is it so difficult
for opposite sides to
meet and discuss the issues
that divide them?
How can face to face dialogue
help break down the stereotypes
that opposing sides hold
onto?
What can a person learn
from listening to someone
they strongly disagree
with?
Uncommon
Ground (I) tragic shootings
force pro-choice and pro-life
activists to hear and
love each other in remarkable
five-year dialogues.
Uncommon Ground (II) how
to listen even if you
sharply disagree
Program # 42 & 43
Marianella Sclavi,
24 giugno 2006
pagina 51 sezione:
CULTURA
Book review of Susan Podziba’s,
Chelsea Story: Come
una cittadina corrotta
ha riegenerato la sua
democrazia (translation:
How a Corrupt City Regenerated
its Democracy), Milan,
Italy: Bruno Mondadori,
2006 (Italian only).
“After
a Decade of Change, Chelsea
Dares to Dream” Boston Globe,
October 16, 2005
The federal investigations,
massive budget deficits,
and crooked mayors that
once marred Chelsea's
reputation are now regarded
as ghosts of a shameful
past. Gone are the days
of barroom and back-room
deals. Gone, too, are
the vitriolic attacks
that marked political
life in Chelsea prior
to the 1991 state takeover
of the city. Today, 10
years after Chelsea emerged
from state receivership,
local leaders speak with
pride about balanced budgets,
professional governance,
and new schools.
“Bringing
a Battered City Back From
the Brink: Consensus-Building
Process Inspires Citizen
Involvement and a New
Charter in Chelsea, MA” Washington Post,
September 7, 1994
When Lewis H. Spence was
named deputy receiver
of this small city outside
Boston three years ago,
he asked local officials
why they had never sent
out penalty notices to
collect $1.5 million in
unpaid parking tickets.
There wasn't enough money
for postage, replied the
officials, somewhat incredulous
that Spence should have
to ask. Besides, they
said, imagine the crowds
that would fill City Hall
paying the tickets, not
to mention the piles of
paperwork it would create.
“Bay
State City to Vote on
Self-Rule” The Christian Science
Monitor, June 20,
1994
CHELSEA, MASS. Chelsea
voters head to the polls
tomorrow to determine
how local democratic control
will be restored to their
city after 33 months of
government by a state-mandated
receiver. Three years
ago, a $9.5 million budget
gap and pervasive political
corruption finally drove
this already poor city
of 28,000 into civic meltdown.
Public officials openly
discussed the possibility
of bankruptcy or annexation
to the nearby City of
Boston...
Fast Company,
September 2001
Like the rest of the world,
we at Fast Company are
trying to make some sense
of the horror that gripped
our world last week. In
an effort to understand
the tragedy and its implications,
we turned to some of the
people featured in our
archives for insight and
wisdom. Mediation expert
Susan Podziba immediately
came to mind.
Fast Company,
Issue #31, January-February
2000
What side are you on?
Mediation expert Susan
Podziba facilitates dialogue
between prochoice advocates
and prolife activists,
between Israelis and Palestinians,
and between environmentalists
and fishermen.
Globalisation
Protestors – Letter
to the Editor Financial Times,
September 12, 2001
Sir, As Martin Wolf’s
column (“Responding
to the anti-globalisation
protestors”, Sept
5) illustrates, there
is an emerging consensus
among global thinkers
that world leaders must
respond to the issues
being raised by those
who protest at world meetings.
Yet the proposals being
floated – a Bretton
Woods conference, formal
discussion of the Tobin
Tax, and even a World
Bank/IMF dialogue with
protesters – offer
little hope of satisfying
the protesters’
demands and thereby stemming
the rising tide of demonstrations.
