On the job, be sure to follow these basic rules:

  1. A minimum of three men on the cutting and bending machine.
  2. On beams and columns, all number six bars or over will be tied with #14 gauge wire or #16 gauge wire doubled.
  3. All decks will be marked and subsequent decks remarked.
  4. All mats on horses will be tied securely.
  5. Slab chairs will be placed 4'0" on center and high chairs 3'0" on center, except where plans indicate otherwise.
  6. There will be no broken time (lay-off is pay-off)
  7. The lather will fabricate his own wall spreaders and place them 4'0" on center and 1'0" from top and bottom. The bottom spreaders may be eliminated if the footing dowels are utilized.
  8. All columns will be centered in form.
  9. Walls should be tied solid when bar spacing is 10" and over. Setup bars will be saddle tied. All bars on walls with #8 bars and over will be tied with double wire or #14 gauge wire. There will be NO snap ties on walls.
  10. Slabs shall be tied solid when bars are 10" or over on center.
  11. The foreman and the contractor will check with the business agent at the start of a job in reference to the shop steward, tag-writer, and other positions in accordance with Section 21 of the Local Union Constitution.
  12. Only Local 46 lathers shall be involved when placing fabricated work.
  13. When placing bars, individual columns, beams, or any other fabricated product by crane, the hooking up signal and placing of same shall be performed by Local 46 lathers.
  14. No lather shall work more than one job per day without permission of the Business Agent.
  15. Bar spaces on spiral columns shall be placed by Local 46 members on job site.


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