Featured Products & Programs
Meet Your Training Goals with SBCA Programs
Many of us tend to slip on our New Year’s resolutions by now, but SBCA is here to help you meet your industry training goals. From Truss Technician Training to Housekeeping for Combustible Dust, SBCA’s online programs teach the basics all employees need to know and build off these concepts for more specialized and advanced training.
Featured Training Program
The new rule prohibiting commercial truck and bus drivers from using hand-held cell phones while operating their vehicles has put a spotlight on driver safety. SBCA’s TRUCK Program includes a template for CMs to develop their own mobile phone use policy. The program also covers key safety issues including load securement, cargo delivery, and accident avoidance and reporting. Learn more.
Newly Revised BCSI Available!
This edition provides updated guidance to framing crews on how to assess fall hazards while installing trusses on residential construction jobsites and highlights additional fall protection requirements under OSHA’s new standards. BCSI also includes information and guidance pertaining to diagonal bracing for web members with two rows of lateral restraint, as well as permanent lateral restraint and diagonal bracing guidance for trusses spaced wider than 2 feet on center.
Revised B11 Addresses New Fall Protection Rules
The newly revised B11 Summary Sheet provides guidance to framing crews on how to assess fall hazards. It stresses that trusses are not designed to serve as fall protection anchors and references OSHA requirements regarding fall protection equipment.
| Educate Your Customers, Protect Your Company, Send JOBSITE PACKAGES |
| “People tend to think this will NEVER happen to them ... It can happen and you better be protected when it does.” |
| – Robert MacGillivray, President, Heartland Wood Products |
CM found not at fault in a negligence case
in part due to using the JOBSITE PACKAGE |
| Protect your company by sending a JOBSITE PACKAGE with every job. JOBSITE PACKAGES allow component manufacturers to provide their customers with best practice information regarding handling and installing components with every jobsite delivery. Read the SBC Magazine article about how the JOBSITE PACKAGE helped a component manufacturer that was found not at fault in a negligence case. |
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Send the Right Message with Tags from SBCA & TPI
Send the right message with truss tags from SBCA and TPI. These tags are a great way to communicate specific information about trusses to your customers and those on the jobsite. Tags include English and Spanish text and cover the following topics:
- Fall Protection
- Permanent Lateral Bracing
- Additional Loading
- Strongback Bridging
- Bearing Location
- Temporary Bracing
- Concentrated Load
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- This Side Up
- Multi-Ply Truss
- Web Reinforcement
- JOBSITE Warning
- Do Not Alter Truss Lumber or Plates
- Tags for Cold-Formed Steel Components
- Ask about customized tags with your company’s name and logo!
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Best Practice Information for Every Wall Panel Job
Educate your customers on proper handling and installation with SBCA's wall panel publications. These documents clearly and concisely explain industry best practices, fulfilling your duty to educate and warn:
NEW – Floor Truss JOBSITE PACKAGE
Reduce your customers’ risk and your own with the new Floor Truss JOBSITE PACKAGE. Designed specifically to go out with floor truss shipments, this package contains a cover sheet, TTB Checklist for Handling and Installing Trusses, and the B7 Summary Sheet on handling, installing and bracing 3x2 and 4x2 parallel chord trusses.
JOBSITE PACKAGES allow component manufacturers to provide their customers with best practice information regarding handling and installing components with every jobsite delivery. Choose the format that best fits your needs:
Are You Prepared for Sawdust & Product Transport Regulations?
Is your company ready for the new regulations regarding sawdust and product transport? SBCA's Housekeeping for Combustible Dust and TRUCK Driver Training programs address these hot topics, and review the risk and safety issues to consider when establishing your company's formal procedures.
The Housekeeping for Combustible Dust program addresses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) new combustible dust rules. The TRUCK Driver Training program prepares drivers for the new enforcement approach under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Compliance, Safety and Accountability (CSA) program. Geared specifically for the structural building components industry, both programs highlight best practices to help keep your business in compliance and your employees trained. To learn more, visit wtcatko.com.
Protect Your Business with Bracing Information for Structural Building Components
Protect your business with these best practices for specifiers of structural building components:
- Building Component Safety Information – This spiral bound booklet provides a Guide for Handling, Installing, Restraining and Bracing of Trusses, available for wood and cold-formed steel components.
- B3 Summary Sheet – An 11” x 17” poster that covers Permanent Restraint/Bracing of Chords and Web Members, available for wood and cold-formed steel components. Plans can be printed on the reverse side to incorporate B3 into a project’s construction documents. Using B3 in this manner helps fulfill your duty to educate and warn by providing standard industry details and guidelines for permanent bracing, as well as helping document that this important bracing information was provided to installers.
- Design Professional Subscription – Sign up for this package and receive online training for CEUs/PDHs, a copy of BCSI and CFSBCSI, a Metal Plate Connected Wood Truss Handbook and more!
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