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ABCs of Construction Site Safety
This guide consists of 26 "A-to-Z" workplace safety topics for construction-industry employers. Most topics include key construction-industry rules and summarize what's necessary to comply.
4878 guidebook
Covers what construction employers need to know about asbestos removal and maintenance based on the requirements of OR-OSHA's asbestos standard for the construction industry: 1926.1101.
2129 guidebook
A description of the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help sufferers.
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Construction Ergonomics - Protect Your Back and Your Future
Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specific to the back.
4844a brochure
Construction Ergonomics - Protect Your Shoulders and Your Neck and Your Future
Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specific to the shoulders and neck.
4844b brochure
Construction Ergonomics: Protect Your Knees and Your Future
Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specifically knee injuries.
4844c brochure
Cranes and derricks in construction
This guide covers Subdivision CC's key requirements - requirements that are especially relevant for small-business contractors. The guide also highlights eight common crane accidents. It describes why they happen and includes the requirements of Subdivision CC that can prevent them from happening.
4927 guidebook
Escaleras Portátiles: Como usarlas sin sufrir caídas
Describe las prácticas de seguridad en el uso de escaleras portátiles.Portable Ladders: How to use them so they won't let you downDescribes safe work practices for using portable ladders.
3083s guidebook
Fall Protection for the Construction Industry
Describes fall protection concepts for construction industry employers, employees, and others who don't have a professional background in fall protection and who want to see the "big picture." Also covers OR-OSHA's fall-protection rules for Oregon construction-industry employers.
2824 guidebook
Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors
This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
2824ce brochure
Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors - Russian language
This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
2824cr brochure
Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters
Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.
2824ae brochure
Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters (Russian)
Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.
2824ar brochure
Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers set floor joists, do sheathing/decking work, and construct exterior walls.
2824be brochure
It's not just dust! What you should know about silicosis and crystalline silica
Tells you about the hazards of crystalline silica and teaches you about silicosis, what causes it, and how to prevent it.
3301 guidebook
Lead in construction quick guide
This guide helps you understand and comply with the key requirements of Oregon OSHA?s lead rule for the construction industry, 1926.62.
4907 guidebook
Not designed to be occupied - How to work safely in a permit-required confined space
Focuses on confined spaces that may contain life-threatening hazards ? permit-required confined spaces, or permit spaces. Describes how to identify a permit space, covers OR-OSHA permit space standard and includes a CD with a generic permit-space program that you can use as a model for your own program.
2864 guidebook
See list of forms for Confined Spaces located on the included CD.
Portable ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down
Describes key safe work practices for using portable ladders safely.
3083 guidebook
Protección Contra Caídas: Opciones para contratistas especializados
Describe soluciones a los problemas en la protección contra caídas a las cuales se enfrentan diariamente profesionistas tal como electricistas, instaladores de tabla roca, y vidrieros.Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractorsDescribes solutions to fall-protection problems that trades people such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day.
2824cs brochure
Describe como eliminar o reducir los peligros de caídas para trabajadores que instalan vigas en el piso, hacen trabajos de revestimiento de cubiertas y construcción de paredes exteriores.Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting floor joists, sheathing/decking, and constructing exterior wallsDescribes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set floor joists, do sheathing/decking work, and construct exterior walls.
2824bs brochure
Protect your back and your future
Tips for construction workers on preventing back injuries.
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Scaffolds: guidelines for Oregon workers
This guide highlights Oregon OSHA's Subdivision 3/L scaffold requirements for the construction industry. The guide also describes unsafe work practices and covers most scaffolds used in construction work including supported scaffolds, suspended scaffolds, and aerial lifts.
3320 guidebook
Silica - An Oregon OSHA pocket reference
A quick pocket reference guide for addressing silica safety and health concerns
3301a reference
Supported scaffolds for the construction industry
This guide is for anyone who wants to understand construction industry best practices for using supported scaffolds. The guide also includes requirements for supported scaffolds in Oregon OSHA's scaffold standard for the construction industry (Division 3, Subdivision L, Scaffolding).
4904 guidebook
Tarjeta de Estrés por el Calor
Describe los síntomas de agotamiento por el calor e insolación, con instrucciones en cómo ayudar a los afectados.Heat Stress CardDescribes symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, with instructions on how to help those affected.
3333s card
Describe los síntomas de congelación parcial y la hipotermia, con instrucciones en cómo ayudar a los afectados.Cold Stress CardDescribes symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help those affected.
3336s card
Underground Construction (tunneling)
An overview of safety and health rules for underground construction, including worker training, air monitoring, fire prevention and hazard communication, recordkeeping and other topics.
2135 guidebook|web only
Vehicle safety for small businesses in the construction industry
This guide from Oregon OSHA, targeted for the construction industry, covers vehicle safety best practices for small-business owners and their employees. The guide also has a sample vehicle safety program that you can modify and use as your own.
4767 guidebook
11/09/10 Fact Sheet: Crane standard
11/09/10 Fact Sheet: Crane timeline
05/16/07 Fact Sheet: Asbestos
01/11/07 Fact Sheet: Hexavalent chromium
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