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Steel-Toed Assist Revolutionary rubber safety overshoes. Try saying that fast three times.
'Expedient action is necessary to remedy the current situation, and the agency will make the appropriate updates,' Tangherlini wrote. Spend tens of billions of dollars annually through interagency contract vehicles, but the management of interagency contracts has been on GAO's high-risk list since 2005. The standard goes on to reference ASTM F-2412-2005, Standard Test Methods for Foot Protection; ASTM F-2413-2005, Standard Specification for. In an economic climate where workers are expected to perform a variety of tasks, an overarching product like this can help to save time and money for. It's not going to be as low as 40L per week. And to people who don't make money via sales, it could easily be 10-20% of their income. That's a big sink when you consider them as the primary buying force in SL. As for the rate change - I don't see how you can say it's minor. It's a 25x change. I see it can have two results: 1.
By. Jul 01, 2011 Outfitting an entire workforce with OSHA-compliant steel-toed shoes can be an expensive and time-consuming task for safety managers. While many employers are not required to provide these shoes, it can be a challenge to prove compliance if purchasing the equipment is left up to the worker because there are many cheap, look-alike brands posing as steel-toed boots. Problems also occur when poor-quality shoes cause injury or pain to the worker.
A simple solution would be to allow each employee to choose his or her own shoes, based on preference and fit. But that's not possible - or is it? Rubber safety overshoes allow workers to wear their own shoes with a non-slip, steel-toed overshoe covering their favorite pair. This provides a very simple solution to a complicated problem and enables companies to protect temporary workers, office personnel, warehouse employees, and visitors. For many years, the only overshoes fitting over the entire outer shoe were cumbersome and awkward. While the demand always has existed, it wasn't until recently that advancements were made in the overall design and quality of the rubber safety overshoe.
Patrick Smyth saw a need for a differently designed shoe that would work from the freezer to the furnace room, where toe protection was required but often forgotten. Smyth's invention is an enclosed toe, all-rubber safety overshoe that is a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to expensive safety footwear. His inspiration came from his enclosed toe design from the sport of curling. Known as 'chess on ice,' the game is similar to the more widely known shuffleboard and was the key inspiration behind the overshoe. While watching a game of curling in his hometown of Toronto, he noticed the 'brushers' in the competition wore an overshoe that was slip-resistant. The players needed a shoe that would allow them to walk and position themselves on the ice and also protect their feet from the cold.
From this came the idea for the modern enclosed steel-toe rubber overshoe that fit tightly over regular outer shoes.
The time has come to implement a new policy framework for interagency contracts. (Stock image) Government overseers have told the Defense Department and General Services Administration to start using new interagency acquisition policy rules - a move one senator says could reduce these contracts' risk to the government. A federal policy framework is now in place to deal with the risks that come with interagency contracting efforts, William Woods, director of acquisition and sourcing management at the Government Accountability Office, wrote in a Jan. Now officials must institute the policies 'in order for agencies to demonstrate whether the new policies established to address interagency contracting deficiencies produce the desired results.'
In 2010, officials revised the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require agencies to decide whether an assisted acquisition is the best approach for meeting requirements and saving money. The customer agency and the agency providing the service also must sign an agreement that lays out the terms and conditions of the procurement. Yet GSA officials have not updated the ordering guides for all its interagency contract vehicles to require customers to make the 'best approach' determination. In addition, Defense officials have not updated their own acquisition regulations to reflect this similar requirement. DOD and GSA officials replied to GAO that they are on track to complete their work. Richard Ginman, director of defense procurement and acquisition policy at DOD, released a memo Jan. 2 that sets up a small team to review DOD's interagency contracting policies.
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He expects the team to start early this year and meet regularly until September. Dan Tangherlini, GSA's acting administrator, said his agency is on it too. He expects order guides to be changed by March 31.
'Expedient action is necessary to remedy the current situation, and the agency will make the appropriate updates,' Tangherlini wrote. While the acting chief wants changes quickly, GSA has been slow. In April 2011, officials told their offices to require of customer agencies best procurement approach determinations. Yet, more than a year later, the offices that are responsible for many of GSA’s largest small-business governmentwide acquisition contracts have not yet changed their ordering guides. Even so, the interagency contracting policy framework, based in part on legislation and congressional oversight as well as the advances by the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, is beginning to result in better contracting outcomes, said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
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Agencies now must develop business cases to support their use of this type of contracting vehicle and they each must define roles and responsibilities interagency agreements to strengthen accountability. Collins added that federal agencies spend tens of billions of dollars annually through interagency contract vehicles, but the management of interagency contracts has been on GAO’s high-risk list since 2005. 'I am hopeful that the progress made will result in the GAO deciding to drop the management of interagency contracting from its high-risk list,' she said.