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Mission
Why?
General Contractors
Insurance
ManufactureLaborSub Contractor
RegulatoryAgencies
Big Business
• To create one unified standard and a resource for construction and building tool designers, manufacturers and operators.
Mission Statement
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• To enable construction and building tools to be used in a safe, efficient and in an environmentally responsible way.
• To promote innovation and economically viable solutions for its members.
• Promotes innovative tools that address the safety of the employee and the environment
Why Do We Need GSTC?
• Regulation alone are not solving some of the long standing safety issues in the construction industry
• Standards that can be globally unified and followed that meet or exceed all regulations
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• Employee Safety
Why Now?
• Green Building
• OSHA is about to revise exposure regulations that will change the way building is done.
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• Zero Harm Policies
• Maintain highest standard of safety
Why does Big Business want this?
• Environmental Impact
• Reduced Insurance/Claims cost (self insured)
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• Social Responsibility
• Efficiency
• Concern for employee safety
Maintain highest Safety Standard
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• Companies like Disney, Dupont, IBM, Johnson & Johnson have strict policies against preventable injuries
• GC’s and regulatory agencies look to big business as examples of exemplary safety standards
• No carcinogens in air
Environmental Impact
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• No water/sludge on jobsites
• Material recycling
• Fewer injuries = less claims dollars paid
Reduced Insurance / Claims cost
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• Reduced future exposure/claims
• Zero harm to employees
Why do General Contractors want this?
• Zero harm to environment
• Green/Recycling
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• Reduced Liability
• Required by big business and insurance
• Efficiency
• Many general contractors have adopted “Zero Harm” policies as their safety motto
Zero Harm
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• Zero harm applies both to employees and the environment at the job site
• LEED certification has inspired many General Contractors to encourage recycling of construction materials on the job site
Green / Recycling
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• Social Consciousness - Recycling is good for the environment and the community in which the construction is being done
• Construction tools that reduce or remove employee exposure to air borne carcinogens also reduce or remove employee liability exposure
Reduced Liability
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• Employee operator is more efficient with proper training and tool usage
Efficiency
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• More efficient clean up at job site
• Cleaner, Safer, Quieter and Greener construction tools if available will be required by big business and insurance companies
Required by big business & insurance
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• Public Safety
Why do Regulatory Agencies want this?
• Unified Standard
• Operational Training
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• Socially Responsible
• Offers “Feel Good” voluntary solutions
• Number one responsibility of Regulatory agencies is Public Safety
Public Safety
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• Green Safe Tool Council assists agencies in accomplishing this on many levels
• Green Safe Tool Council standards meet or exceed all current government standards so compliance can be easily determined
Unified Standards
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• Having the standard only matters if the procedures required to achieve it are followed. Green Safe Tool Council establishes training for proper use of certified tools.
Operational Training
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• Certified Standards are cleaner, greener, safer, quieter and more efficient.
Socially Responsible
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• Encouraging use of Green Safe Tool Council standards is a way to promote all of the objectives of the regulatory agencies without imposing more regulations and fines.
“Feel Good” voluntary solution
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• Reduced liability for employee exposure
Why does Insurance want this?
• Environmental risk liability reduced
• Fewer claims paid
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• Added value to insured
• When employee exposure is removed so is the liability
Reduced liability for employee exposure
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• Environmental property damage claims have increased significantly over the past two decades
Reduce environmental risk liability
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• Recycling of material means it gets carried off the job site not blown through the air or washed into the water system
• Contractors and consultants that ignore environmental exposures can expose themselves to significant legal risks and large fines
• Training
Added value to clients
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• AHA/JHA
• Relevant issues and concerns being addressed
• Fewer Claims = dollars saved.
Fewer Claims Paid
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Why do Manufacturers want this?
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• Clearly defined market advantage over non-certified tools
• Reduced liability
• Insurance, Big Business and General Contractors will request or require Green Safe certified tools on all projects
• Advertising / Market Driver - Green, Safe, Clean, Quiet Tools
• Distributor / Retailer end user training - Direct customer interaction
Why do Manufacturers want this?
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• Tools designed for world wide market = reduced cost and R&D and tooling
• Direct design and use requirements from Labor/Regulatory agencies, Big Business and General Contractors
• New products to sell
• Continuous on the job risk assessment from safety professionals
Why does Labor / Sub Contractors want this?
• Contracting advantage
• Advantage over other sub-contractors
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• Employee Training
• Job efficiency
• Employee Safety
• AHA/JHA compliance
• GSTC not only sets a new level of safety standard for tools but also considers the safe and correct way to operate them.
Employee Safety
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• As big business and insurance requires use of these certified tool standards, GC’s will request and / or require use of these tools and process
Advantage over other Sub-Contractors
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• AHAs and JHAs will be one less thing the Sub-contractors need to worry about. GSTC will provide these documents as part of the standards
AHA / JHA Compliance
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• Labor Unions and Sub-Contractors will have the council as a “partner” in training their employees in the safe and proper way to use construction tools
Employee Training
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• Less equipment and prep time
Job Efficiency
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• Less clean up
• Recycling made more efficient
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