Workforce Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices
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The document discusses workforce strategies, tactics, and best practices in construction, highlighting the importance of safety, early contractor involvement, and managing labor shortages. It addresses age attrition challenges, retention issues, and the significant impact of skilled labor shortages on productivity. Key suggestions include enhancing planning, multicrafting, and employing detailed execution strategies to optimize project performance.
![Productivity Feedback
Recent contractor feedback suggests labor productivity in the
Gulf Coast (past 1‐2 years) is suffering significantly…
Budget increases up to 96%
Craft hour increases in excess of 200%
Headcount peaks over 300% greater than estimate
“Routinely seeing 2.4 – 2.5 productivity [rates in] Gulf Coast on jobs”
“2.1 productivity new average for Gulf Coast”
Is this the new productivity normal?
Who’s at fault – Craft workers? Planning? Poor Craft Mixes?
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Workforce Strategies, Tactics, and Best Practices
- 2. Workforce Strategies, Tactics and Best Practices • Safety and compliancy • Design for safety • Safety performance plans
- 4. Design for Safety • Engineering is construction’s friend • Constructability – early and often • Early contractor involvement • Information sources – OSHA, CII and many more
- 5. Safety Performance Plans • Owners must understand the advantage of the costs that will be required • Involve the craft in the program, existing site conditions and reach out for their help and advice • Develop an entire team to make safety a success from beginning to end
- 12. Productivity Feedback Recent contractor feedback suggests labor productivity in the Gulf Coast (past 1‐2 years) is suffering significantly… Budget increases up to 96% Craft hour increases in excess of 200% Headcount peaks over 300% greater than estimate “Routinely seeing 2.4 – 2.5 productivity [rates in] Gulf Coast on jobs” “2.1 productivity new average for Gulf Coast” Is this the new productivity normal? Who’s at fault – Craft workers? Planning? Poor Craft Mixes? Can we do more work with fewer workers?
- 14. Workforce Strategies, Tactics and Best Practices Panelist: Roger Gossett, President, JV Driver Group
- 15. • Early involvement of the construction contractor • Workface planning • Multicrafting/Multiskilling • Advanced work packaging
- 16. • Material management • Equipment management • Managing the “M” Curve – “Travel is the enemy” • Detailed project execution plan
- 17. • Number of “touches” tracking • 100% in the field supervision • “Leading edge indicator” • Variable compensation contracting