Construction Safety Handbook
eBook - PDF

Construction Safety Handbook

A Practical Guide to OSHA Compliance and Injury Prevention

  1. 486 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Construction Safety Handbook

A Practical Guide to OSHA Compliance and Injury Prevention

About this book

This much anticipated new edition provides employers and employees with a day-to-day guide to reducing accidents and injuries, ensuring compliance, avoiding fines and penalties, and controlling workers' compensation costs. You'll not only find comprehensive discussions on all of the construction safety regulations found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 29 Part 1926, but you'll also find the actual legal text of the regulations and overviews for each subpart for easier reference.

This Construction Safety Handbook covers both the obvious and the hidden dangers of construction and addresses the latest changes in OSHA standards, including new recordkeeping requirements, new ergonomic guidelines, new requirements in the Steel Erection standard, and new additions to signs, signals, and barricades requirements.

Written in plain English, this comprehensive handbook provides you with the legal background, practical advice, and ready-to-use written compliance programs you need to ensure your sites meet workplace safety requirements, protect workers, and comply with the standards. Each chapter provides a description of the requirements of the standard, and a sample written compliance program, checklists, and the appropriate citations from the 29 CFRs. The latest changes in enforcement and inspection policy are also detailed, and a list of OSHA's most frequently cited construction standards is given.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. Preface
  8. About the Author
  9. Chapter 1: The Occupational Safety and Health Act
  10. Chapter 2: Recordkeeping: Employers Subject to OSHA Recordkeeping
  11. Chapter 3: Construction Industry Standards
  12. Chapter 4: Hazard Communication: Communicating the Hazards of Chemicals to Workers
  13. Chapter 5: Training Requirments in OSHA: Construction Standards Guidelines
  14. Chapter 6: Noise Control
  15. Chapter 7: Signs, Signals, and Barricades: Safety Standards for Signs, Signals, and Barricades
  16. Chapter 8: Ergonomics: Preventing Musculoskeletal Injuries at Your Workplace
  17. Chapter 9: Personal Protective Equipment: Protecting Your Workers from Head to Toe
  18. Chapter 10: Fall Protection: Preventing Falls at Your Worksite
  19. Chapter 11: Excavations, Trenching, and Shoring: Avoiding Cave-Ins and Other Accidents
  20. Chapter 12: Demolition Operations: Using Safe Blasting Procedures at Your Worksite
  21. Chapter 13: Cranes and Crane Operation: Avoiding Crane Hazards
  22. Chapter 14: Forklift Safety: Training Your Forklift Operators in Safe Driving Techniques
  23. Chapter 15: Controlling Lead Exposures: Working with Lead in the Construction Industry
  24. Chapter 16: Asbestos: Controlling Asbestos Exposures at Your Worksite
  25. Chapter 17: Process Safety Management: Conducting a Process Safety Analysis at Your Worksite
  26. Chapter 18: Heat Stress: Setting up an Effective Program to Reduce Heat Exhaustion
  27. Chapter 19: OSHA Inspections: How to Prepare for and Respond to an Inspection
  28. Glossary
  29. Index