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BRT (Business Roundtable). 1997. The Business Stake in Effective Project Systems. Construction Cost Effectiveness Task Force. Washington,... 

In the late 1970 s, the Business Roundtable sponsored an extensive study to determine the cause of the diminishing productivity being experienced by the construction industry in the United States and to propose solutions to stop and reverse the trend. A team was formed with representatives of prestigious universities, contractors, and owners from several sectors of industry. As a result of this concerted effort, the Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness report, now widely known as CICE, was issued. 

More Construction for the Money. Summary Report of the Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness Project, a Business Roundtable Publication, Jan. 1983. 

CICE (Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness Project) A construction productivity study sponsored by The Business Roundtable. 

Business Roundtable, SEE ing Change 2008 Progress Report, Washington, DC, 2008, available at http //seechange.businessroundtable.org/... 

The Council s work will be closely linked to related efforts of organizations, such as, the Committee for Economic Development, the Business Roundtable, the Conference Board, and the Industrial Research Institute. If feasible, the Council may. Indeed be affiliated with one or more of them. 

Improving Construction Safety Performance, Report A-3, January 1982, Reprinted July 1990. New York The Business Roundtable. 

Business Roundtable. July 2005. Tapping America s Potential The Education for Innovation Initiative. Washington D.C. (businessroimdtable.org). webpage title = URL. ... 

Improving Construction Safety Performance, Report A-3, The Business Roundtable The Business Roundtable, 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166. (Report includes criteria to evaluate contractor safety performance and criteria to enhance contractor safety performance). 

Tapping America s Potential. The Education for Innovation Initiative. Business Roundtable (2005). http //www.businessroundtable.org/pdiy20050803001TAPfinahib. pdf. 

The Business Roundtable s Report A-3, Improving Construction Safety Performance, concludes that in the construction industry, an effec-... 

The Business Roundtable, Improving Construction Safety Performance Report A-3, New York, January 1982 and Oregon OSHA, The Cost of Accidents, Safety Training Module,http //www.cbs.state.or.us/osha/educate/training/ pages/materials.html, public domain. 

The Business Roundtable, The Workers Compensation Crisis Safety Excellence Will Make a Difference, New York, January 1991. 

In 1979, Stanford University s Department of Civil Engineering was engaged by The Business Roundtable to make a study of construction safety and costs. As a result, Technical Report No. 260 was issued in August 1981. Its title is Improving Construction Safety Performance The User s Role. This research report was the latest study located by this author. It was conducted to provide guidance on reducing accident frequency and severity in the construction industry and the attendant indirect and direct injury costs. 

In 1982, The Business Roundtable issued a condensed version of the report titled more briefly as Improving Construction Safety Performance. The briefer report does not include the research methodology, the questionnaire developed and sent to contractors for completion. 

OSHA gives credibility to the ratios that arose out of the Stanford research in that the agency adopted, published, and promotes use of the data in the Business Roundtable version of the Stanford report, with some revision. Mention was made previously of OSHA s bulletin titled Safety and Health Management Systems eTool—Costs of Accidents. The data in Table 11.5 appears in that bulletin. 

OSHA acknowledges the source of its data as the Business Roundtable, Improving Construction Safety Performance Report A-3, January, 1982. The indirect cost ratio for the 0-2,999 Range of Benefits Paid in the Business Roundtable report is 4.1, rather than 4.5, as shown in Table 11.5. However, it should be noted, the OSHA exhibit does not show data for No-Loss-Time claims. OSHA has eliminated all three no-lost-time injury categories shown in the Stanford Report. No-lost-time cases occur more frequently than lost-time cases and have higher indirect-to-direct cost ratios. 

The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), an umbrella group heavily funded by the tobacco industry, coordinated the business community s lobbying efforts at the federal level and provided resources to more than forty affiliated state organizations. A separate entity, called the Product Liability Coordinating Committee (PLCC), purported to represent more than 700,000 companies and small business organizations, but its primary supporters were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, and the National Association... 

Pertschuk, Revolt, 57 Vogel, Eluctuating Eortunes, rq8 (impact quote) Business Roundtable, About Us, available at http //www.businessroundtable.org/print/book/ export/html/1823. 

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