Author: Dave Heberle Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional ISBN: 9780070343399 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 532
Book Description
Construction work-site safety is an important part of a builder's cost of doing business. This text is a guide to managing residential and light commercial construction safety. It addresses why and how contractors must educate themselves and their crews to practice safety at work.
Author: Ciaran McAleenan Publisher: ICE Publishing ISBN: 9780727760104 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This manual advises readers on real-life situations, providing an authoritative, highly practical and invaluable reference for practising engineers, technicians and other construction professionals, as well as a comprehensive overview of the topic for students.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781622701070 Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The Cal/OSHA Pocket Guide for the Construction Industry is a handy guide for workers, employers, supervisors, and safety personnel. This latest 2011 edition is a quick field reference that summarizes selected safety standards from the California Code of Regulations. The major subject headings are alphabetized and cross-referenced within the text, and it has a detailed index. Spiral bound, 8.5 x 5.5"
Author: Mark McGuire Moran Publisher: Government Institutes ISBN: 0865878137 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
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 Chapter 1926, but you'll also find the actual legal text of the regulations and overviews for each sub Chapter 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.
Author: Jerry Klinke Publisher: Acra Enterprises ISBN: 9781888724080 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
The RIGGING HANDBOOK is a clear, illustrated reference source for rigging professionals, crane operators, and others that perform rigging and hoisting operations. This handbook essentially represents the working notebook of the author. It is based on material used by him in the construction and repairs of turbine generators and other power plant components over the past 28 years. This handbook provides concise, simple answers to rigging situations that may otherwise appear complex in nature. The notes explain and illustrate some of the basic and complex problems associated with a wide variety of rigging situations.
Author: Charles D. Reese Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1420006231 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 984
Book Description
A practical guide for eliminating safety and health hazards from construction worksites, the Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health addresses the occupational safety and health issues faced by those working in the construction industry. The book covers a vast range of issues including program development, safety and health program implementation, intervention and prevention of construction incidents, regulatory interpretations, understanding, and compliance, OSHA's expectations, health and safety hazards faced by those working in the construction industry, and sources of information. Highlighting contract liability and multi-employer sites, this second edition features updates for construction regulations, construction job audit, training requirements, and OSHA regulations. It includes new record-keeping guidelines and forms with additional material on focused inspections. Containing updated contact information for the newest agencies, the text also presents a model safety and health program, examples of accident analysis and prevention approaches, sample safety and health checklists, and more than 200 illustrations. Taking a comprehensive approach to construction safety and health, the authors address issues seldom discussed in the construction arena such as perceptions and motivation while also discussing issues gleaned from the safety and health disciplines such as the analyzing of incidents and accident prevention techniques. Including an in-depth discussion of regulations promulgated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the book lays the foundation upon which to build stronger safety and health initiatives, while intervening and preventing jobsite deaths, injuries, and illnesses.
Author: Andrew Civitello, Jr. Publisher: M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 9780765635143 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 426
Book Description
As an immediately useful ready-for adaption model, this manual is a valuable tool for contractors and subcontractors in the construction industry implementing the overwhelming OSHA requirements. Successfully utilized in the field, the Manual can be customized to accomodate all areas of construction. Construction Safety and Loss Control Program Manual: -- is topically organized for easy access to essential information; -- provides interpretations of the generic OSHA requirements specifically suited to the construction industry; -- offers checklists, summaries, and step-by-step directions for implementation of the requirements. Liability for every construction company, no matter how large or small, is enormous. The Manual, packed with valuable, applicable, and useable information, is just the tool necessary to minimize a company's liability and improve safety programs and employee awareness.
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