Explanation
The Bureau of Workers compensation (BWC) has steadfastly encouraged employers to invest toward the enhancement of occupational safety and health programs and initiatives. This legislation enables the City to do so. It clearly exhibits an ongoing effort to further promote workplace safety and efficient claims management. This contract allows the City to provide industrial hygiene services as required by state and federal law. Since 2004, Safex Inc. has done an outstanding job of responding to the industrial hygiene needs of the City's departments. Continuing the existing contractual relationship with Safex Inc. enables the administration to achieve its objective of improving the level of workplace safety and decreasing the risk of exposure to injury. This female owed business has helped the City in all aspects of industrial hygiene and safety tasks in an efficient and cost effective manner.
EMERGENCY: Emergency action is requested in order that industrial hygiene services and safety program assistance may continue without disruption subsequent to the passage of this legislation.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding is being provided from the 2014 Employee Benefit Fund budget for Occupational Safety & Health purposes.
Safex Inc.’s contract compliance number is 311365251.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Human Resources to enter into a contract with Safex Inc. for the purpose of providing assistance as may be necessary in industrial hygiene services and safety program assistance to all divisions; to authorize the expenditure of $120,000.00 from the employee benefits fund; to waive the competitive bidding requirements of the Columbus City Codes, 1959; and to declare an emergency ($120,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the City desires to continue to provide industrial hygiene services in an efficient, cost effective and consistent manner; and
WHEREAS, the Safex Corporation currently provides effective industrial hygiene service and safety progr...
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