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ASA Discount Available for the SESCO Webinar Series ASA is excited to announce that members can get a 15% discount on SESCO’s upcoming webinar series!  SESCO Management Consultants is ASA’s Human Resource experts and are one of the incredible member benefits available through the ASAdvantage program.  Just use the promo code SPRING15 when you register…

ASA Will Comment on OSHA’s COVID-19 Healthcare ETS on Construction On March 23, the OSHA published a limited reopening of the comment period and an informal public hearing on its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for healthcare (Subpart U).  OSHA is seeking comment on possibly expanding the scope of the healthcare rule to cover some…

Upcoming Webinar: “Killer Contracts: Don’t Sell Your Soul to the Sea Witch” ASA invites you to join us for the upcoming webinar, “Killer Contracts: Don’t Sell Your Soul to the Sea Witch”, on April 13th, 2022 at Noon Eastern. This webinar, presented by Bethany Beck of Sanderford & Carroll, will include an overview of the…

ASA Will Comment on OSHA’s Recordkeeping Regulation Relating to Construction On March 30, 2022, OSHA issued its proposed amendments to its recordkeeping regulation. The current regulation requires certain employers to electronically submit injury and illness information to OSHA. The most significant change is that covered establishments with 100 or more employees in certain high-hazard industries—including…

Didn’t Make it to SUBExcel? Here’s What You Missed! All of us at ASA National want to thank each and every person who joined us in Florida for SUBExcel 2022!  The week included top-notch speakers, non-stop networking, updates from leaders across the country, a ton of fun, and so much more!    SUBExcel is an…

This Week in Congress This week, the House is not in session, but the Senate held nomination votes, along with voting on the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (S. 1260) and the House-passed COMPETES Act, which both aim to boost some domestic innovation and provide billions for semiconductor manufacturing.  Finally, the Ocean Shipping Reform Act,…

ASA Calls Upon Congress Not to Suspend the Federal Gasoline Tax ASA, along with the Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC), called upon congressional leadership to not suspend the federal gasoline tax in the name of “economic relief,” which is misguided and could undermine the recently enacted and bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Per their…

Critical Communications Survey: Please Respond! We’re Listening. Raise Your Voice Nothing beats one-on-one conversation to spur ideas and connections. That was reinforced at SUBExcel a couple weeks ago as we talked with a lot of our members about how to make YOUR association better. Only problem is that we spoke to a tiny fraction of…

ASA Supports Building Resilient Supply Chains Act On October 5, 2021, Reps. Malinowski (D-NJ), Kinzinger (R-IL), and Rochester (D-DE) introduced the Building Resilient Supply Chains Act, H.R. 5495 to establish the Supply Chain Resiliency and Crisis Response Office in the Commerce Department and authorizes $41 billion for the Office to make grants and loans to…

FAR Updates: Buy American Act Requirements On March 7, 2022, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) for Buy American Act Requirements” was updated as follows: An important issue that was not finalized in the rule, but will be an important issue on the Buy American horizon is the designation of “critical” items and components. For “critical”…