"Work safely. Go home Safely." An expanded version of NFC’s FrameSAFE Safety Manual template was rolled out this spring and is taking hold in the marketplace.
CMs engaged in NFC membership de-velopment efforts will find their work rewarded with better organized, safer, more effective and more reliable framing crews.
Framers engaged in NFC will learn component installation best practices from other framers, with the goal of creating more efficient, safe and profitable framing outcomes.
By actively growing awareness of and membership in NFC, CMs will expand their framing community connections and naturally expand market share and revenue growth.
Effective employee training on jobsite safety requires an approach that combines good information with consistent messages and continuous delivery.
The NFC’s Site-Specific Fall Protection Plan is being added to the already robust FrameSAFE program.
Safety is everyone’s responsibility. Effective training is the best way employers can “help their employees help themselves” to work safely on the jobsite.
Today’s complex truss designs can present significant installation challenges to framers if there isn’t good communication between the framer and the manufacturer.
From storage and lifting pick points to critical bearing conditions, safe handling and installation practices need to be effectively communicated to installers.
During the design phase, manufacturers can help ensure smooth installation by considering the framing challenges a complex design may create and facilitate cross communication between parties.
There are many published installation guides available for product-specific applications, but few account for framing tolerances when dissimilar materials are integrated into the overall building and the expectations for overall performance.
NFC’s Standards Development Sub-committee will begin outlining framing practices performed everyday where tolerances and known good performance have not been detailed in depth.
The subcommittee will take a “through the eyes of a framer” point of view and provide step-by-step implementation guidelines and options.
You must have continuous training in order to have a training system work.
In addition to FrameSAFE and Toolbox Talks, NFC will release FrameSAFE Safety Posters in early 2015.
FrameSAFE is more than just a safety manual; we’ve created it to be a training tool that workers and employers can use to find everything they need in one product.
When there’s no effective tie-off point for a building, framers have to use a job-specific best practices approach.
Both Hull and Shifflett agree it is in the best interest of component manufacturers to work with framers to create best practice approaches to fall protection.
The long-term goal is to host an online database that GCs and framing teams can visit to know who in their industry participates, trains and follows the same safety guidelines.
