Nail guns are widely used on many construction jobs, especially in residential construction. While they boost productivity they may also cause tens of thousands of painful injuries each year. This publication is intended to provide a resource for residential home builders and construction contractors, subcontractors, and supervisors to prevent these kinds of injuries.
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Any contractor seeking to establish a niche in public works construction must understand the concept of prevailing wage legislation. Non-union contractors, in particular, in order to produce a competitive and profitable bid, must take into account the labor costs involved in these projects. Simply put, prevailing wage (or “Davis-Bacon” as the laws are often referred to) is the hourly rate and fringe benefit contribution contractors are required by law to pay when working on federal or state construction projects. The pay and benefit rate is set by the U.S. Department of Labor for federal projects and by labor commissioners, departments of industrial relations or similar agencies for individual states. The need for adhering to Depression-era labor law, the specific rates set by governments and even the methods that states use to determine them are often debated. Furthermore, the rates are typically slanted towards inflated union wages, as opposed to the market rate wages.
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