workforce strategies, tactics, and best practices
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Workforce Strategies, Tactics and Best PracticesModerator: Harry Harrison, Director of Construction, Process Plants and Industrial Business Unit, Wood Group Mustang
Workforce Strategies, Tacticsand Best Practices
• Safety and compliancy• Design for safety• Safety performance plans
Safety and Complacency
Design for Safety
• Engineering is construction’s friend• Constructability – early and often• Early contractor involvement• Information sources – OSHA, CII and many more
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
Workforce Strategies, Tactics and Best PracticesPanelist:Daniel Groves, Chief Executive Officer, Construction Labor Market Analyzer (CLMA)
Age Attrition Challenges (BLS)
65%
61%75%
65%
61%75%
61%75%
Age Attrition Challenges (CLMA)
Problems finding and retaining professionals?
Problems finding qualified skilled
labor?
79%
21%35%
65%
Impact of Skilled Labor Shortages
Productivity Change 2014 – 2015
Productivity FeedbackRecent 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?
Worker Shortage Impact
CII Research Team 318: Is there a demographic craft labor cliff that will affect project performance? (8/2015)
Workforce Strategies, Tactics and Best PracticesPanelist:Roger Gossett, President, JV Driver Group
• Early involvement of the construction contractor
• Workface planning
• Multicrafting/Multiskilling
• Advanced work packaging
• Material management
• Equipment management• Managing the “M” Curve – “Travel is the enemy”
• Detailed project execution plan
• Number of “touches” tracking
• 100% in the field supervision
• “Leading edge indicator”
• Variable compensation contracting