STATEMENT OF POLICY

Northwest Indiana Business Roundtable (NWIBRT) has a strong commitment to provide a safe work place for its employees and other persons working or visiting on its premises. To enhance the required knowledge of changing regulatory demands and align Northwest Indiana with the health and safety requirements of other areas of the country, NWIBRT effective August 1, 1998, endorses the concept that contractor employees WHO ARE EXPOSED to SUBSTANTIAL RISK, ENTERING NWIBRT MEMBER'S PREMISES MUST complete the 10-HOUR OSHA Construction Training Program before August 1, 1999. The effective date of any one individual complying with this requirement will be the anniversary date in 1999 of having been through the 1998 NWIBRT Safety Orientation.

Those having successfully completed this requirement will be issued a certify card through the trainer from OSHA. Producing this card at the time of employment will be proof that this employee has been OSHA 10-HOUR trained.

The training provides a means to assure a minimum level of specific safety and health knowledge for all contractor employees. The training will promote employee accountability and participation in the safety improvement process. However, this training does not fulfill any in depth training requirement that the contractor employer is obligated to provide under the OSHA Standards.

This training requirement will replace the current Safety and You video packet, but will not affect any site specific orientation that the NWIBRT members currently provide or will provide in the future.

APPLICABLE TO

Contractor, subcontractors and vendors who perform labor or services on NWIBRT members premises must this requirement, who are exposed to substantial risk, entering NWIBRT member's premises.

The failure of a contractor to comply with the provisions of this policy constitutes cause for cancellation of contract.

EXCEPTIONS

The following exceptions may be granted at the sole discretion of NWIBRT members:

1. Contractors or vendors whose need for site access and POSE A MINIMAL SAFETY RISK IN THE SOLE JUDGEMENT OF A NWIBRT MEMBER COMPANY MAY BE EXEMPTED from this requirement.
2. The General Industry 10 HOUR card is acceptable in lieu of the Construction Card for those who are not engaged in construction.
3. The General Industry 10 HOUR card is acceptable for those in engaged construction, who have previously obtained a General Industry card at a locale other than N.W. Indiana to satisfy a pre-employment requirement.
4. Contractors and contractors' employees who do not posses either a Construction or General Industry card who are contracted or hired from non-local union affiliates (out of town/"boomers") on AN EMERGENCY BASIS may be permitted to begin work on-site pending training if the work will NOT extend beyond seven calendar days from the first date after work starts by contractor. This provision is to allow work to begin on emergency or short notice situations only. If the work will extend beyond seven calendar days training must be done as soon as reasonably feasible within the seven calendar days allotted. This provision covers only employees needed for initial staffing and does not extend to those hired with sufficient time for training (2-3 days after job begins). Any person working under this provision must be removed from the work site, if after seven calendar days the training has not been completed.