Jim Stevenson's blog

The National AGC Safety and Health Conference] was held in San Antonio in January and I had the opportunity to present the Construction Career Collaborative (C³) industry initiative to over 160 safety professionals.  The initiative was well received by our safety professionals as a means to verifiably provide safety training to each craft worker and supervisor.   Read more »

Blogger Mike Holland discussed a workforce initiative of the Houston Chapter of the Associated General Contractors in his November 3, 2010 post.  Since that time, over fifty individuals from Houston area contractor and specialty contractor companies have been working in seven task forces to fulfill the mission of creating a method whereby socially responsible owners, contractors and specialty contractors can positively affect the growth of a sustainable workforce.  The task forces aim to achieve this by advancing principles that raise the image of the industry, attract and retain verifiably qualified workers, provide a safer and healthier environment and improve efficiency and productivity.  Formerly called the Construction Industry Sustainable Workforce Alliance (CISWA) and now known as the Construction Career Collaborative (C³), the initiative has sought the support of other leading industry organizations from ABC, ASA, MCA, OSHA, HASC to SCTC in the effort  Read more »

When someone tells you a lie are you offended?  Do you wonder whether they feel wrong for telling you a lie?  What makes something of importance right or wrong?  Is the first thing that comes to mind whether the act is legal or not?  While the laws of the United States, our state or some other governmental agency are certainly an indicator of right and wrong, our laws only represent a majority opinion of our society at a particular moment in time for a limited number of issues.  Was the lie illegal or just offensive to you and your values?  And if no laws were broken did you attempt to make a self determination of whether the act of telling the lie was right or wrong?  If so, then you are on your way to obtaining an ethical mind which will lead to ethical acts.   Read more »