Thoughts on construction law from Christopher G. Hill, Virginia construction lawyer, LEED AP, mediator, and member of the Virginia Legal Elite in Construction Law

Category Archives: Occupational Safety

My Client Was Cited by Virginia Occupational Safety and Health

For this week’s Guest Post Friday we welcome, Anna E. Jolly, JD, CHMM.  Anna is a partner in the consulting firm, Circle Safety and Health Consultants, LLC.  Anna has been an OHS professional for over 30 years and is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia.  She is also a member of the

Virginia Multi-Employer Site Safety Issues–and How to Deal with Them

The world of the Owner, Contractor, Subcontractor “straight line” project model is long gone. Increasingly complex construction needs for commercial owners require the services of numerous trades, and even multiple “prime” contractors at times, to perform the various stages of construction. Because of the complex and multi-employer nature of the modern commercial worksite, as a

VOSH Jumps Into the Employee Misclassification Pool

The proper classification of workers by construction companies has been on the radar of the Department of Labor for both the US and Virginia governments for quite a while.  While most of the misclassification is innocent and not done to create issues, there have been enough instances of purposeful misclassification of certain workers as independent

Lead Paint Rule Update

The new lead paint regulations are all over the construction news these days.  I thought it would be helpful to you, as construction professionals, to put together some of the great analysis, legal thought, and opinion that I have found out here on the internet. Just this past Friday, my good friend Tim Hughes (@vaconstruction)

It Caught Fire for Them, Will It for You?

For this week’s Guest Post Friday here at Musings, we welcome Stan Allely.  Stan is the Senior Technician – HAZMAT, Explosives and Electrical/Arc Flash for HAZMAT Plans & Programs, Inc. In recent years there have been numerous construction accidents because companies were either not aware of fire hazards or did not have safe practice policies