{"id":100576,"date":"2019-05-28T06:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/?p=100576"},"modified":"2024-03-29T07:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:56:41","slug":"davis-bacon-osha-jones-act-and-buy-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/davis-bacon-osha-jones-act-and-buy-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Executive Summary.\u00a0<\/strong>A quick background on terms you hear every day in federal construction contracting: Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5o3XvfP0kh1S7mThoHejFQ?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The terms.\u00a0<\/strong>Each of the items in the title were introduced by the federal government. Here\u2019s a quick background on each of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"eds-animate  \" data-eds-entry-animation=\"rotateIn\" data-eds-entry-delay=\"0\" data-eds-entry-duration=\"0.5\" data-eds-entry-timing=\"linear\" data-eds-exit-animation=\"\" data-eds-exit-delay=\"\" data-eds-exit-duration=\"\" data-eds-exit-timing=\"\" data-eds-repeat-count=\"1\" data-eds-keep=\"yes\" data-eds-animate-on=\"hover\" data-eds-scroll-offset=\"\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-101369 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gavel-2492011_1920-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gavel-2492011_1920-980x544.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gavel-2492011_1920-480x267.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Davis-Bacon Act \u2013 Senator James Davis (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Representative Robert Bacon (Republican, New York) sponsored the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 which was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. Basically, it requires that contractors and subcontractors working on public building or public works jobs pay the local prevailing wage.<\/li>\n<li>OSHA \u2013 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is an agency which was established under President Nixon in 1970. Its mission is to protect workers through the establishment of standards, the providing of education, and the appropriate enforcement.<\/li>\n<li>Jones Act \u2013 Also known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, this law was introduced by Senator Wesley Jones of Washington and was intended to protect the American merchant marine. It requires that all goods transported across water between U.S. ports be done by US-flagged ships. Today it\u2019s very controversial in some circles because it results in very high cost to the taxpayer.<\/li>\n<li>Buy American \u2013 This is the informal name of the Buy American Act which was passed in 1933 by Congress and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover. This is different from the Buy America Act from 1983 which applies to mass transit programs wholly or partially funded by the federal government. Both Acts require contractors to buy American-made products and anyone that has dealt with this has a never-ending battle with \u201cmade in\u201d versus \u201cmanufactured in\u201d versus \u201cassembled in\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>My Story.\u00a0<\/strong>I\u2019ve dealt with one or more of these on almost every job I\u2019ve ever had. I\u2019ve had the least experience with the Jones Act (even though I\u2019ve spent a great deal of my career in Hawaii \u2013 an island\u00a0<em>state<\/em>\u00a0in the middle of the Pacific Ocean). I\u2019ve had the worst experience with Buy American\/America \u2013 every supplier deals with the definition of \u201cmade in America\u201d. I find that each of them has helped America and hurt it \u2013 each of them has helped the common American put a few more bucks in his pocket, but each of them has cost the taxpayer tremendously.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sjcivil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/2019-05-27-Davis-Bacon-OSHA-Jones-Act-and-Buy-American.pdf\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-flat\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#293a57;border-color:#212f46;border-radius:12px;-moz-border-radius:12px;-webkit-border-radius:12px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 30px;font-size:22px;line-height:44px;border-color:#6a768a;border-radius:12px;-moz-border-radius:12px;-webkit-border-radius:12px;text-shadow:none;-moz-text-shadow:none;-webkit-text-shadow:none\"> Download The PDF<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Summary.\u00a0A quick background on terms you hear every day in federal construction contracting: Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American. 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Here\u2019s a quick background on each of them. &nbsp; Davis-Bacon Act \u2013 Senator James Davis (Republican, Pennsylvania) and Representative Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[477,478,479,480,481,482,357],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A quick background on terms you hear every day in federal construction contracting: Davis-Bacon, OSHA, Jones Act, and Buy American.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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