b'Construction Safety for Supervisors NEW Productivity Improvement for Mechanical Projects Participants will learn the fundamentals for building a safe workplace that isGreat project management, by both the foreman and project manager, is primarily appropriate for their construction company. The course assists in familiarizingresponsible for creating excellent productivity on every project. Due to the participants with WorkSafe regulations and Certificate of Recognition auditendless number of variables, which negatively affect worker efficiency, excellent requirements. The participants will also build practical skills for supervisingproductivity is the project teams greatest challenge. Productivity also has the construction worksites, conducting toolbox talks, providing health and safetygreatest positive or negative impact on project and company profitability. Excellent training, conducting regular safety inspections, doing safety investigations whereproductivity requires proactive, diligent, and detailed planning by the project an accident occurs and designing a safety manual. At the end of the coursemanager and foreman at each step of the project. In this session, the instructor participants will be able to: Define safety and determine responsibilities, understandwill provide proven methods and practices for creating, controlling, and improving the legislative requirements for maintaining a safe workplace, define and developproject productivity on all types of projects. The following topics (and others) elements to make up a good health and safety program, understand the Certificatewill be presented and discussed in this class: material handling practices that of Recognition (COR) program and its requirements, include safety into planning,guarantee improved jobsite productivity, understanding average productivity and conduct hazard assessmentsassess risk and hazard priorities, identify thethe typical construction site work day, identifying, managing, and controlling components of a good training program, make on-the-job health and safetyrecoverable lost time, understanding the differences between management-caused training a natural part of your jobsite activity, conduct successful toolbox talks,lost time and worker-caused lost time, understanding the differences and the prepare for an inspection and develop an inspection checklist, understand whichimportant connection between punctuality and productivity, optimum crew size incidents require investigation, conduct timely incident or accident investigations,and its effect on productivity, the relationship between planning, productivity, recommend and implement corrective actions to prevent future reoccurrences,and profitability, planning activities that have huge impacts on productivity, understand the safety systems and document management required, understandidentifying and controlling the internal and external factors that affect productivity, the key elements of an OH&S Committee, and understand how to build a safetyfabrication, preassembly, tagging, bagging, and its effect on productivity.(One Day) culture within a construction company. (Two Days)Instructor: Blake Wentz Instructor: Tim WilliamsAttendees: Supervisors, ForemenAttendees: Construction Owners, Managers, Estimators, Supervisors, New Safety Reps The Foremans Role in Project Documentation Examine the role of the jobsite supervisor in creating daily, indisputable project HALF TO ONE DAY SEMINARS documentation. Review the basic types of and uses for project documentation and Growing and Developing Supervisorslearn methods to improve documentation effectiveness. The steps for planning and If you want to develop men and women into managers, or perhaps want to workimplementing the documentation process for a mechanical construction project on your own supervisory skills, this seminar can help. Geared towards anyone whowill be reviewed. (Half Day) manages people, including foremen, owners, and project managers, this real worldInstructor: Blake Wentz presentation has been used to train over 8,000 supervisors in leadership, transitionAttendees: Supervisors, Foremento management, problem solving, and ending communication conflict.(One Day) Instructor: Kevin DoughertyManaging Labour: Coding, Tracking and Forecasting Attendees: Middle Management, Project Managers, Supervisors,Successful journeymen with unique abilities, but with little or no management Foremen training, are frequently promoted to foreman and lead crews of workers on mechanical projects. This session explores basic management skills relative to Advanced Supervisors: Turning Supervisors into Better Leadersthe position of jobsite foreman. They will understand essential traits, skills, and A program designed for foremen, superintendents, shop foremen and anyonebehaviours that allow a foreman to more effectively manage crews. Topics covered who could make a difference to job profitability. With todays jobs being moreinclude: the relationship between leadership and management, management competitive, having aggressive schedules, being inconsistently managed byability vs. technical savvy, consistency in managing others, the importance of the customer, skilled manpower shortages, and every project involving moreorganization and standardization, motivating others to perform, delegation skills, documentation and administrative needs, todays supervisor is critical forand working with difficult people. (Half Day) profitability. Gone are the days when the supervisor could wing it; todays successfulInstructor: Blake WentzNATIONAL SEMINAR PROGRAM CATALOGUEsupervisor must manage not only the field, but also be able to understand how theAttendees: Supervisors, Foremenwhole process fits together. This program will provide todays supervisor with the tools needed to be successful. (One Day)Managing Change at the Jobsite Instructor: Kevin DoughertyReview the jobsite supervisors role in managing the change order process. Discuss Attendees: Middle Management, Project Managers, Supervisors,the negative impact of change orders on the completion of the original scope Foremen of work and the methods for minimizing and managing these impacts. Topics include: foreman as guardian of the scope of work, the real costs of change Planning Skills for Foremanorders, the project owners perspective on change orders, methods for managing Effective planning makes projects more productive and profitable. This sessionand preventing productivity loss on change orders, the importance of the early covers three areas of planning: turnover meetings, pre-construction planning, andidentification of change orders, the effects of overtime on productivity, managing short interval planning. Learn the fundamentals of effective turnover meetingschange orders with a strong foreman/project manager team, the importance of necessary to transfer information from estimators to the project team. Discuss howsolid change order documentation, what a typical contract says about change the foreman can positively influence project outcome through sound and proactiveorders, managing time and material change orders, and managing morale and planning, and learn the fundamentals of successfully pre-planned projects. Focusmotivation on projects with numerous change orders. (Half Day) on the necessity of continuous project planning using short interval planning andInstructor: Blake Wentz on scheduling to recognize upcoming project needs. (One Day)Attendees: Supervisors, ForemenInstructor: Blake Wentz Attendees: Supervisors, Foremen Critical Leadership Skills for the Project Foreman Successful project supervision requires strong leadership skills. Most foremen possess some degree of instinctive leadership skills, but learning additional leadership skills can improve overall leadership effectiveness. Learn the difference between being in charge and being an effective leader. Understand the critical leadership skills of an effective foreman. Topics to be discussed include: defining leadership and dispelling the myths of leadership, the difference between leadership and management, making the emotional connection between teams and team leaders, the relationship between leadership and motivation, developing effective listening skills, creating an atmosphere of trust, workers vs. followers. (Half Day) Instructor: Blake Wentz Attendees: Supervisors, Foremen2019 INFORMATION GUIDE 41'