Construction

Easy calculator for figuring out safe lifting operations.

Describe los peligros de la sílice cristalina, qué causa la silicosis y cómo prevenirla.

Identifies workplace safety topics for construction-industry employers. Includes construction-industry rules and summaries of compliance requirements.

Covers what construction employers need to know about asbestos removal and maintenance based on Oregon OSHA's asbestos standard for the construction industry: 1926.1101.

Esta guía pretende ayudar a los empleados de la construcción a comprender los métodos que se incluyen en la Tabla 1 para controlar la exposición al polvo de sílice.

Covers Oregon OSHA's construction requirements for cranes and derricks. Also highlights common crane accidents, describes why they happen, and explains how to prevent them from happening.

Ergonomics is the applied science of designing the work to fit the worker. This brochure helps employers and employees with ergonomic solutions for construction and general industry work.

Describe las prácticas de seguridad en el uso de escaleras portátiles.

This guide explains excavation and trenching safe practices and Oregon OSHA's safety requirements.

Provides best practices for fall protection when performing construction activities. Covers the requirements in Division 3, Subdivision M, Fall Protection and highlights fall protection requirements for work on ladders and scaffolds.

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.

Describes the hazards of crystalline silica, what causes silicosis, and how to prevent it.

Detalles sobre la regla de espacios confinados para empleados de la industria general y la construcción.

Details about Oregon OSHA's confined space rule for general industry and construction employees.

Describes safe work practices for using portable ladders.

Proporciona las mejores prácticas para la protección contra caídas cuando se realizan actividades de construcción. Cubre los requisitos de division 3, subdivision M, protección de caídas y recalca los requisitos de protección contra caídas para trabajos en escaleras y andamios.

Describe cómo eliminar o minimizar los riesgos de caídas para los trabajadores que colocan y refuerzan las vigas de madera y las estructuras de techo.

Describes construction industry best practices for using supported scaffolds and covers requirements for supported scaffolds.

An overview of Oregon OSHA's requirements for underground construction.

This guide helps construction employers understand the methods listed in Table 1 for controlling exposures to silica dust.

Describes the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help sufferers.

Describes the symptoms of heat stress and heat stroke, with instructions on how to help sufferers.

Self-inspection checklist for portable ladders.

Proporciona alturas de activación para la protección contra caídas en los trabajos relacionado con la construcción.

Describe a una persona competente para andamios en actividades de construcción y explica los requisitos de la División 3, Subdivisión L que se aplican a ellos.

An overview of health hazards associated with asbestos. Briefly describes work classes for asbestos removal, repair and maintenance, and custodial activities. Includes answers to frequently asked questions.

Describe las mejores prácticas para el uso de líneas de advertencia para avisar a los trabajadores que están acercándose al borde desprotegido de un techo, piso, u otra superficie de trabajo.

Describes the requirements for confined spaces and permit-required confined spaces, including entry procedures and emergency plans.

Explains what equipment is covered in Oregon OSHA's crane standard. Applies to all employers who are engaged in construction work.

Summarizes important requirements in the crane rules for construction activities.

Describe a una persona competente para el montaje de acero en las actividades de construcción y explica los requisitos de la División 3, Subdivisión R que aplican a ellos.

Describe los requisitos para espacios confinados y espacios confinados que requieren permiso, incluidos los procedimientos de entrada y planes de emergencia.

Describes a competent person for fall protection in construction activities and explains the requirements in Division 3, Subdivision M that apply to them.

Provides specific fall protection trigger heights for construction work, particularly on unprotected walking or working surfaces.

Describes GFCI requirements in construction, details how GFCIs protect workers from electrocution, and addresses common errors.

Explains when employers must provide hearing protection and how to choose the right hearing protection for employees.

Describes the sources of hexavalent chromium, the risks of exposure and those likely to by affected - typically workers who handle pigments containing dry chromate and spray paints and coatings containing chromate, workers who operate chrome plating baths, and those who weld or cut metals containing chromium.

Offers guidelines for those who work in street or highway right-of-way and are exposed to traffic or construction equipment.

Covers the key requirements in 1926.62, Oregon OSHA's lead rule for the construction industry.

Guidelines for an effective driver safety program.

Gives a summary of the major requirements of the Occupational Noise Exposure rules.

Provides contractors with a flow chart to help them evaluate a work zone when cranes will be operating within 20 feet of an overhead power line.

Describe a una persona competente para la protección contra caídas en las actividades de construcción y explica los requisitos en la División 3, Subdivisión M que se aplican a ellos.

Explains how to keep workers from being exposed to high levels of radiofrequency radiation when working near RF-generating antennas.

Describes a competent person for scaffolding in construction activities and explains the requirements in Division 3, Subdivision L that apply to them.

Describes a competent person for steel erection in construction activities and explains the requirements in Division 3, Subdivision R that apply to them.

Explains construction-industry best practices for using a warning line to alert workers they are approaching an unprotected edge of a roof, floor, or other work surface.

Hazard alert in preventing fires when using aerial lift hydraulics.

Hazard alert on why to "call before you dig."

Hazard alert on liquid propane tanks and heaters used to warm buildings under construction.

Hazard alert on pneumatic nail and staple gun safety.

Goal is to provide you with a better understanding of ergonomics in your job.

Problem: The hula saw operator leans forward and reaches to grab and pull the boards closer. These awkward postures and forceful exertions can cause shoulder and back injuries.

Problem: Back sprains and strains are the most common disabling injuries for construction workers. Working below the knees, working above shoulder height, doing repetitive jobs, and moving heavy things are common risk factors for ergonomic injuries.

Tips for construction workers on preventing back injuries.

A playbook of ideas, interventions, and ingenuity! The purpose of safety committees and safety meetings is to bring workers and management together in a non-adversarial, cooperative effort to promote safety and health. Safety committees and safety meetings will help you continually improve your safety and health program.

We get many calls and emails from employers asking the same question. It begins: “Which of your rules have requirements for…” You can finish the sentence with words like “recordkeeping,” “employee training,” and “written documents.” To answer those questions, we’ve organized these rules requirements into a filterable, sortable, searchable table.

This Confined Spaces training program covers practices intended to protect workers from the hazards of working in a confined space.

Este curso en línea discute las reglas de espacios confinados de Oregon OSHA para proteger a los empleados de los peligros de trabajar en un espacio confinado.

This multimedia course is designed to assist you as an employer or employee working in construction activities to meet the requirements of Oregon OSHA fall protection standards.

This course is designed to assist you as an employer or employee to meet the requirements of the Oregon OSHA Fall Protection Standards. This is the first course in the fall protection suite.

This Hazard Communication training program covers the Oregon OSHA Hazard Communication Rule as it has been aligned with the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Categorization of Chemicals.

This online course is designed to satisfy 5 of the 7 training requirements found in Oregon OSHA’s rules to address heat illness prevention

Este curso está diseñado para ayudar a los empleadores y empleados a cumplir con los requisitos de los estándares de Protección contra Caídas de Oregon OSHA.

Este curso multimedia está diseñado para ayudarlo como empleador o empleado que trabaja en actividades de construcción para cumplir con los requisitos de las normas de protección contra caídas de de Oregon OSHA.

Este curso multimedia está diseñado para ayudarlo como empleador o empleado que trabaja en actividades de construcción para cumplir con los requisitos de las normas de protección contra caídas de de Oregon OSHA.

Training material produced by SafeBuild Alliance & the SafeBuild Alliance Lean Safety Subcommittee through the Oregon OSHA Training and Education Grant Program. "In this user’s guide we will be providing you with many tools to use on any construction project. The tools will be focused primarily on delivering concepts relative to enabling efficient practices with safety in mind."

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Del programa PESO para la seguridad en la construcción residencial - PESO English-Spanish residential construction safety training

Rule interpretation from January 1997 regarding assured grounding program in construction.

Rule interpretation from June 1996 regarding fall protection and return to work program.

Rule interpretation from January 1997 regarding the intent offlagging on wire rope top rails.

Purpose: This instruction establishes policies and provides clarification to ensure uniform enforcement of the Occupational Exposure to Asbestos Standards, 29 CFR 1910.1001, 1926.1101, and 1915.1001.

Purpose: This directive clarifies the application of 1926.350(a)(9).

Purpose: This instruction is intended to serve as a standard-specific reference for Oregon OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) regarding the application of Subdivision P of 29 CFR Part 1926, providing supplemental compliance inspection guidance and citation policies.

Purpose: This directive clarifies the requirement for fall protection when employees are using aerial lifts, in construction, as described in the above ANSI/SAI standards, Oregon OSHA rules, and this directive to ensure uniform enforcement of the rules.

Purpose: This instruction establishes the inspection policy and procedures to ensure uniform enforcement of provisions addressing work activities that involve hoisting employees to and from workstations on communication towers using a personnel hoist.

Purpose: This directive establishes Oregon OSHA’s policy for conducting focused construction inspections of employers that have been recognized by trade associations within the construction industry for their workplace safety and health programs.

Purpose: To provide guidelines for citing violations related to guards for cutoff wheels and masonry saws used in General Industry and Construction.

Purpose: To clarify the intent of the affected rules.

Purpose: To inform OR-OSHA staff of the existence of a federal program directive.

Purpose: This directive establishes policies and provides clarification to ensure uniform application of the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS).

This program directive is intended to serve as a standard-specific reference for Oregon OSHA compliance officers regarding the application of Oregon Administrative Rules within Division 3, Subdivision CC, providing supplemental compliance inspection guidance and recommended citation policies for complex requirements.

Purpose: To provide guidance to compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs) on how to conduct safety and health inspections of workplaces involved in construction, maintenance, or utility work activities on or near roadways and highways (hereinafter "work zones") where public or site operation vehicular traffic exposes workers to struck-by hazards.

Purpose: This program directive provides guidelines for the safety enforcement staff when conducting programmed inspections of construction and forest activities employers on the safety scheduling lists.

Purpose: To provide guidance in determining when a construction site or employer will be subject to a random safety construction inspection from the Random Scheduling List.

Purpose: This Program Directive explains how the safety and health scheduling lists will be created and the criteria and ranking factors that will be used to identify the places of employment the Director believes to be the most unsafe in the state of Oregon.

Purpose: This directive provides inspection assistance related to Oregon OSHA jurisdiction over independent contractors, LLCs, partnerships, corporate officers, and corporate family farms. This program directive replaces PD-210.

Purpose: This instruction provides uniform inspection and compliance guidance for lead exposure in construction, 1926.62, Lead, effective in Oregon on November 1, 1993.

Purpose: This instruction establishes policies and provides clarification to ensure uniform enforcement of the Lift-Slab Construction Operations Standard.

Purpose: These guidelines provide directions to compliance officers on how to issue citations at multi-employer worksites.

Purpose: This instruction describes policies and procedures for implementing a national emphasis program (NEP) to reduce occupational exposures to lead in accordance with the provisions of the Field Information Reference Manual (FIRM).

Purpose: To establish a National Emphasis program for the programmed safety inspection of trenching and excavation operations.

Purpose: This instruction establishes inspection procedures and provides clarification to ensure uniform enforcement of the scaffold standards for construction.

Purpose: This instruction describes Oregon OSHA’s inspection policy and provides clarification to ensure uniform application by field personnel of the steel erection standards for construction.

Purpose: To provide guidance in interpretation of rules pertaining to location and accessibility of toilet facilities.

This program directive provides compliance safety and health officers guidance on conducting inspections of workplaces involved in construction, maintenance, and utility work activities associated with underground utility installations.

Videos from the Fall Protection for Construction online course developed by Oregon OSHA Public Education as part of the Fall Protection Suite of courses.

Geared especially to construction and trades workers who may already have some hearing loss, this comprehensive training package covers: The nature of sound and how the ear processes sound; the causes and types of hearing loss; the importance of identifying noise hazards; and the use of the proper hearing protection for the work setting.

An Oregon OSHA compliance officers happened by this jobsite without trench shoring, and recorded his request to have the worker get out of the unsafe trench. Moments after that conversation started, the trench collapsed.

Este curso multimedia está diseñado para ayudarlo como empleador o empleado que trabaja en actividades de construcción para cumplir con los requisitos de las normas de protección contra caídas de Oregon OSHA.