Hazards & Solutions

For construction, the 10 OSHA standards most frequently included in the agency’s citations in FY 2004 were:

Scaffolding:

1. Fall protection (scope, application, definitions)
2. Excavations (general requirements)
3. Ladders
4. Head protection
5. Excavations (requirements for protective systems)
6. Hazard communication
7. Fall protection (training requirements)
8. Construction (general safety and health provisions)
9. Electrical (wiring methods, design and protection)

Scaffolding:

Hazard: At the point when frameworks are not raised or utilized appropriately, fall perils can happen. Around 2.3 million development specialists much of the time chip away at frameworks. Shielding these specialists from platform related mishaps would keep an expected 4,500 wounds and 50 fatalities every year.

Solutions:

1. Framework must be sound, unbending and adequate to take care of its fair share in addition to four times the most extreme proposed stack without settling or uprooting. It must be raised on strong balance.
2. Shaky articles, for example, barrels, boxes, free blocks or solid squares must not be utilized to bolster frameworks or boards.
3. Platform must not be raised, moved, destroyed or modified aside from under the supervision of a skilled individual.
4. Framework must be outfitted with guardrails, mid-rails and toe-boards.
5. Framework extras, for example, supports, sections, trusses, screw legs or stepping stools that are harmed or debilitated from any cause must be instantly repaired or supplanted.
6. Framework stages must be firmly planked with platform board grade material or identical.
7. A “skilled individual” must review the platform and, at assigned interim’s, reinspect it.
8. Fixing on suspension frameworks must be investigated by a skilled individual before each move and after any event that could influence auxiliary uprightness to guarantee that all associations are tight and that no harm to the gear has happened since its last utilize.
9. Engineered and common rope utilized as a part of suspension framework must be shielded from warmth delivering sources.
10. Representatives must be told about the dangers of utilizing inclining props as fall assurance.
11. Platform can be gotten to by utilizing stepping stools and stairwells.
12. Frameworks must be no less than 10 feet from electric electrical cables at all circumstances.