CDMCS 5th Annual Leadership in Safety Awards NOMINATION GUIDLINES CDMCS recognizes outstanding safety leadership in the dredging and marine construction industry by making four awards each year: one for a company, one for a private sector individual, one for a government individual, and one for USACE district and one for a dredge crew or team. […]
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In January of this year the Council for Dredging and Marine Construction Safety (CDMCS) released Pipeline Incident Prevention, a recommended best practices guide for safe dredging near underwater gas and hazardous liquid pipelines located in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers federal navigation channels. This completed a milestone project for the dredging and pipeline industries that will […]
Like other sectors of the maritime industry, dredging is considered “essential” by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the division of the Department of Homeland Security tasked with identifying critical infrastructure and essential workers during the response to COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. That means, even during the fight to slow […]
Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its “Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community & National Resilience in COVID-19 Response.” This list of “essential critical infrastructure workforce” gives guidance to state and local jurisdictions and the private sector in considering how to […]
