It is widely known and accepted among design professionals and specifiers that construction contracts typically confer on the contractor responsibility for construction means, methods, procedures, techniques, and sequences, together with responsibility for construction site safety and protection, and complying with the contract documents. These are often regarded as among the contractor’s most important obligations. Despite this, owners, design professionals, and specifiers routinely incorporate language into construction contracts and specifications that muddles the waters of contractual responsibility for controlling the work, safety, protection of property, ...