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The Apprentice Mentoring Program (AMP) was developed by a group of industry stakeholders as a best practice of the Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA). It is provided to companies free of charge, and is intended to help improve the skills and knowledge of apprentices on a work site so they are more able to…
Worker Competency Verification is intended to help employers develop methods to allow them to verify that workers employed on a work site meet legislated requirements and construction industry expectations. This Best Practice is an aid to better equip employers with a knowledge base surrounding worker competency and the process needed to be duly diligent in…
The purpose of this best practice is to provide guidelines to follow when developing a winter preparedness program specific to the company or site requirements. This document will cover pre-season planning, in-season work execution and, post season de-winterization and review. This document will provide guidance to minimize the impact on people, environment, materials, production and…
Field Level Risk Assessments (FLRA) first appeared in Alberta in the late 1990s, among progressive owners and contractors in the increasingly busy heavy industrial construction sector. The COAA FLRA best practice was developed in 1998 at the request of the Safety Committee in order to encourage widespread use of this new approach in order to…
The COAA Safety Committee and sub-committee collaboratively developed this Best Practice; a framework, implementation guide, tools and references to assist organizations in implementing a Behaviour Based Safety program. Analysis of incidents shows that 90% of them have the behaviour of the person(s) involved as a key contributing factor. Of the 10% remaining, 0% of them…
COAA Contractor Prequalification Guideline has been prepared in 2013 as a guide for owners and contractors to facilitate prequalification of contractors and subcontractors for industrial construction in Alberta. Its purpose is to ensure that owners have access to contractors with the capabilities, capacity and expertise to perform required services. Implementing the best practices provided in…
This best practice provides the use of construction work packaging for planning purposes with regards to the workface. The overall practice of project planning and management is guided by principles and tools in this collection. Here you can find overall path of construction process flows down to individual process flows and job descriptions to implement…
This module assembly framework has been developed as a guideline to assist all module stakeholders in developing their own project specific module assembly plan. Rather than create a document that attempts to address all possible considerations through a module project lifecycle this best practice tool is based on using “principles” as a means of conveying…