SUN-A06 - HSW of Landscape Laborers: Ethics, Laws, and Logistics

Sunday, November 21, 2021

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 202

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Leslie Wren, ASLA

Assistant Professor
Kansas State University
Manhattan, Kansas

Speaker(s)

Josh Sundloff, JD, ASLA, LEED AP

Attorney
Babcock Scott & Babcock
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah
Dylan Peck

President
Alpine Construction & Landscaping Corp.
New York, New York

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AIA/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Landscape laborers bring our designs to life- and face daunting occupational safety risks to do it. This session will discuss the ethics, laws, and logistics that landscape architects should consider to do right, minimize their own liability exposure, and advocate for and protect laborers’ HSW.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the potential occupational safety risks landscape laborers face, and the vast difference between landscape architects and laborers when it comes to occupational safety.
Explore philosophical frameworks and considerations that inform the ethical obligations of landscape architects to landscape laborers, as well as a universal method for ethical business practice decision making.
Understand the legal aspects of landscape architects’ liability for landscape laborer HSW, including case law, licensure board powers, laborer safety risk mitigation, and minimizing landscape architects’ liability exposure.
Learn practices for engaging with landscape contractors to promote landscape laborer HSW, including the tools that landscape architects can use to minimize the HSW risks to laborers on their projects.