NEWSLETTER – Issue 7

New Website Now LIVE!

COAA has officially flipped the switch - our new and improved website is

now live at www.coaa.ab.ca!

You will notice a much cleaner look to the site and more importantly, you

will find it quick and easy to locate the 26 Best Practices along with the

hundreds of relevant associated forms, checklists and presentations. Our

goal is to provide visitors with a user-friendly site and a simpler way to find

the documents they are looking for.

The main feature is the Library, which now links Best Practices and

associated documents, in addition to presentations from past conferences,

workplace forecasts, and resources to help make Alberta projects safer

and more productive. The new site is also mobile-friendly, which means

that single forms or checklists can be located and downloaded with a

phone or tablet - right in the field!

Thanks are extended to the developers at Kobot for working with us to

create the website and to COAA staff and members who donated their

time and energy to make this site what it is.

We hope you find our new website fresh and easily accessible – the

gateway to the valuable information stewarded by COAA.

February 2017

Issue 7

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

New COAA Website …….. 1 Benchmarking 101…...…....2 2017 BP Conference..…….2 Safety Maturity Perception Survey …...……3 APIN News………..………..3 About COAA …….…..…….3 Do you have a success story

you’d like to share and showcase in our next

newsletter? Let us know!

Contact Amanda Rose at amanda@coaa.ab.ca for any

stories or suggestions you may have.

Start Searching the Library Now!

Benchmarking 101

COAA has designed a Benchmarking Q&A to help people better understand

what benchmarking is and its importance and uniqueness in Alberta. Detailed

responses are provided for the following questions in Benchmarking 101:

What is benchmarking and why is it important?

What is the history of benchmarking in Alberta?

What is unique about benchmarking in Alberta?

How is productivity benchmarking evolving?

What is the high-level safety metric and productivity metric for the

Alberta heavy industrial construction sector?

What is Twice as Safe, Twice as Productive by 2020 all about?

What is COAA doing to improve the industry?

Also included with the above documents, are links to additional COAA

benchmarking resources and other related information that can be found at.

https://www.coaa.ab.ca/library/benchmarking-101/.

Wait, there’s more!

JWN published an article this month in OilWeek that highlights new approaches to benchmarking that groups are taking to hit the mark on Alberta project delivery. Get more details, along with links to other great resources, right here.

COAA Safety Committee’s

Safety Maturity Perception Survey

COAA’s vision for the industry is to be “Twice as Safe, Twice as Productive by

2020”, and a key element in this journey is to understand Alberta’s safety

culture and the level of safety maturity across the industry. COAA’s Safety

Committee has developed a survey with the intention of gaining input across

the industry to understand where leadership in safety culture is happening and

where it is void. Responses are asked from all areas of a company, as it will

help determine the industry’s attitudes and actions toward safety, enhance

Best Practices, and tailor initiatives to improve overall safety for everyone.

The survey should take no more than 20 minutes to complete and responses

are sent directly to Dr. Lianne Lefsrud, from the University of Alberta. They will

be used exclusively for the purposes of this project and responses will be kept

in the strictest confidence. The survey will close on March 15, 2017 at 12:00

p.m. MTS.

2017 BEST

PRACTICES

CONFERENCE

COAA’s 2017 Best Practices

Conference will be held on

May 9-10, 2017 in

Edmonton, AB.

Registration is now open

REGISTER TODAY!

An agenda outlining the

workshops is available, as

well as sponsorship

opportunities for those

interested. If you have any

questions, please contact

coaa.admin@coaa.ab.ca

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You can access the survey by visiting http://bit.do/COAASafetySurvey or by clicking on the image below.

For benchmarking purposes, each company’s overall results will be reported back, however, all identities are anonymized. If your company is small and respondents could be easily identified, those response categories will be omitted from the report. Companies will not be identified in the results and only sector/industry distributions will be

About COAA

COAA was founded in January 1973 and provides leadership to enable the Alberta heavy industrial construction and industrial maintenance industries to be successful in our drive for safe, effective, timely and productive execution. We achieve this by:

Stimulating positive change based on shared vision

Providing a forum for dialogue, common understanding and shared vision among owners, contractors, labour providers and governments

Creating and championing implementation of Best Practices in the construction industry

Bringing new ideas to construction industry and government leaders

Want to know more about COAA? Click on any link below!

COAA Member Listing Safety Committee Join COAA Workforce Development Committee Construction Performance Committee Interactive BP Map Contracting Committee Best Practices Awards

APIN

News Alerts

The Alberta Projects

Improvement Network (APIN)

is a cross-industry network

of progressive organizations

and leaders working together

to improve industrial

construction practices in

Alberta. APIN works to

improve Alberta's and

Canada's track record of

delivering successful,

productive and capital-efficient

industrial construction

projects.

We invite you join our network

to stay connected and help

improve project delivery in

Alberta and Canada. By signing

up, you'll start to receive our

e-newsletter that will keep you

updated on the latest

industrial construction

knowledge and news, including

the most recent Benchmarking

Blog, as well as highlight

additional and upcoming ways

you can get involved in the

network as it evolves.

Sign Me Up!

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provided. If you have not yet participated in this survey, please do so and feel free

to share across your company. A summary of responses will be reported at the

upcoming Best Practices Conference in May.