Live blogging annual CCA Conference

Good Morning Dearest Reader,

Welcome to my live blogging of the 84th Annual CCA Conference in Westminster

Key note speaker
8:35
Changing trends in OSHA. OSHA has been transitioning from action specific to programmatic regulation. Their goal is to interpret the code to get your money. The official company program has to be safety oriented, there need to be official fully documented company trainings with all the bases covered. All your training needs to be fully recorded, stuck to a fixed schedule, sign in sheets, and no ambiguity. Safety is about overall company policy.
Run from all liability

8:50
Republican presidents when they come into office they reduce funding for OSHA without shrinking the department. As a result citations increase to feed the machine and offset lost revenue.

Your safety committees need to actually work. Treat your people good and they'll comply with safety rules. Buy your workers pizza, let them know they're appreciated. Care about your workers and they'll do what you want. Involve everyone and keep everyone engaged and active. If everybody is enfranchised and actively care about what they do, safety will follow

9:15
PDAC
Plan
Decide
Act
Check

In all you do, do these things. Listen, Learn, and Lead. Convince your workers that you actually do care about them.

Effectively, in my own words, read a Dale Carnegie book

12:30
Speaker of the Colorado House. The population is growing and the state transportation infrastructure needs to grow to catch up. Gas taxes have not been updated since 1991 and as such funding has fallen and the infrastructure has suffered. I can't see her hands, not the best body language. Comprehensive plan needs to be developed to address colorado's transportation needs.

12:45
President of the Colorado Senate. The CCA is an important infrastructure advocacy group in the state.
How do we show good faith towards the taxpayer? How can we best prioritize funds for projects and programs to suit the needs of Colorado? We want to change housing and construction statutes so that more condos and multi-family dwellings can be built. This would allow for entry level housing to be built in the metro area to ease burdens on the rental market.

12:55
The Senate President was very short (Verbally not Physically). The Director of  CDOT. The purpose of CDOT, to save lives and make lives better by proving freedom, connection, and experience through travel.

A 10% decrease in traffic congestion results in a 1% increase in economic productivity.

Almost 9 Billion dollars in unfunded highway projects.

2.5 billion in high priority projects

SB 228, senate bill allocating funds, less than 200 million allocated
72% of funding for transportation comes from federal government

Per capita transportation expenditures have decreased by half since 1991.




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