OSHA Guide for the Construction Industry : Regulations, Sample Plans, Forms

Our OSHA Guide For The Construction Industry makes your job easier by providing construction employers with the basic tools for a safer worksite. The Guide focuses on those standards most frequently overlooked and violated by employers in the construction industry. Informative and easy-to-understand, The Guide includes pertinent safety checklists and forms. There is a section on states with OSHA-approved plans and a directory of state and federal health and safety agencies. Other features are: Separate, detailed chapters on excavation and trenching, asbestos, fall protection, and scaffolds OSHA Overview chapter that defines employer and employee rights and responsibilities, gives inspection procedures and tips, lists common defenses to OSHA citations, and more Explains Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) within the context of the HazComm Standard Recordkeeping, reporting, and posting requirements (300, 300A, and 301 Forms) plus instructions on their use Digest of OSHA standards For The construction industry, including discussion of fines and penalties Training chapter that explains how to identify training needs, gives an overview of OSHA training fundamentals, and summarizes training requirements by topic Four commonly required sample written safety plans that can be copied and used Updated annually.Aspen Publishers Staff is the author of 'OSHA Guide for the Construction Industry : Regulations, Sample Plans, Forms', published 2005 under ISBN 9780735553989 and ISBN 073555398X.