Pavement upgrade adds to cost of Wethersfield school renovation
WETHERSFIELD -- At the recommendation of the town's fire marshal, the school building committee voted Monday to beef up the pavement at the high school's northwest corner.
The thicker asphalt – to be four and a half inches compared to the original two and a half inches -- is necessary to support heavy fire apparatus, Fire Marshal Anthony Dignoti said.
"It was intended that the heavy-duty pavement would go to the end of the parking lot," Dignoti said. "For some reason, it stopped three-quarters short." The change will extend the thicker pavement about another 80 feet to the building's shops and cafeteria at an added cost of $6,980. The pavement work is part of the ongoing $85.5 million reconstruction of Wethersfield High School. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
West Haven board hears application for New Haven Magnet School near UNH
WEST HAVEN >> The Planning & Zoning Commission heard the New Haven Public Schools’ application for the proposed regional Engineering and Science University Magnet School, or ESUMS, near University of New Haven for a third time Tuesday night, but took no action.
The commission did vote unanimously to approve a materials removal application for the project with a number of conditions, but continued a public hearing on the site plan approval application until May 13 at the request of the applicant’s lawyer, Timothy Yolen. Yolen told the PZC, “We are awaiting some information on a couple of the smaller parcels and we want to make sure that we have possession of those parcels before the commission votes.” The New Haven Board of Education essentially is seeking to redo a previously-approved application that recently was overturned for procedural reasons by a Superior Court judge. The appeal was filed by Tracy Fagan, a neighbor who lives at Rockview and Emma streets. Superior Court Judge Barbara Brazzel-Massaro, sitting in Derby, recently found that “the notices of hearings ... was insufficient” and there were issues that should have gone before the Inland Wetlands Agency first, but didn’t. New Haven previously had sought and received a change of zone from residential to an Educational Facilities District, as well as the previous site plan approval for the $85.5 million school, last May 28. The approval of the materials removal application came over objections from Fagan and her lawyer, Max Rosenberg of Stratford. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE
OSHA releases new education bulletin on injury recording requirements
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration released a new educational resource that focuses on requirements for injury recording of temporary worker injuries and illnesses. The bulletin explains the requirements for both the staffing agency and the host employer. The new recordkeeping bulletin addresses how to identify who is responsible for recording work-related injuries and illnesses of temporary workers on the OSHA 300 log. OSHA's temporary worker initiative is an agency-wide concerted effort that uses enforcement, outreach and training to assure that temporary workers are protected in their workplaces. In recent months, OSHA has received and investigated many reports of temporary workers suffering serious or fatal injuries, many of which occur within their first week on the job. OSHA's initiative was launched to raise awareness and compliance with requirements that temporary workers receive the same training and protection that existing workers receive. CLICK TITLE TO CONTINUE