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Prevent construction-related falls! This handbook explains in simple language what builders, remodelers, and other industry professionals can do to comply with OSHA fall protection standards. You will learn how to eliminate the most common fall hazards found on home building jobsites.
In an easy-to-use English-Spanish format, the handbook provides guidelines for establishing a written fall protection plan and identifies safe work practices that can prevent costly accidents and injuries.
The clear text, photographs and drawings with captions demonstrate how to:
- Select and use the right ladder.
- Protect stairways, leading edges, window and wall openings, and floor holes.
- Use a personal fall arrest system (PFAS).
- Safely build and erect exterior and balloon-framed walls.
- Safely construct rafters and install roof trusses and sheathing.
- Provide fall protection for application of roofing materials.
- Guard against implement hazards.
- Provide protection from falling objects.
- Use safe work practices to protect workers working at heights.
- Train workers to identify fall protection hazards.
NAHB-OSHA Fall Protection Handbook is a must for your company’s safety program. Use the handbook with the Fall Protection Video.
From the Introduction
The NAHB Labor, Safety and Health Services Department developed the NAHB-OSHA Fall Protection Handbook to assist the residential construction industry in complying with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA's) safety requirements. Residential construction is typically defined as construction activity performed on structures where the working environment, materials, methods, and procedures are essentially the same as those used in building a typical single-family home or townhouse. Materials would include wood framing and wooden or metal floor joists and roof structures. Methods would include traditional wood frame construction techniques. Materials and methods in residential construction may also use a steel l-beam, poured concrete (or cinder block) foundation walls, a stucco exterior, or metal stud framing instead of wood stud framing.
The main goal of this Fall Protection Handbook is to explain in easily understood language what builders, remodelers, and other industry professionals can do to comply with OSHA standards while focusing on the most common hazards found on their projects. The handbook is intended to be used in conjunction with the Fall Protection Video.
This handbook identifies safe work practices and related OSHA requirements that have an impact on some of the hazardous activities in the residential construction industry. The handbook highlights some common safe work practices and regulations related to major fall hazards and causes of fall-related injuries and fatalities in residential construction. Builders, remodelers, and trade contractors should strive to find the best ways to prevent workers from falling by providing a safer working surface, utilizing guardrails, personal fall arrest systems, or safety nets, modifying construction methods to reduce fall exposures.
The information presented in this handbook does not exempt employers from compliance with the fall protection requirements contained in the OSHA regulations or state or local safety laws and regulations. The Fall Protection Handbook does not replace any requirements detailed in the actual OSHA regulations for construction (Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1926). If any inconsistency exists between the handbook and the OSHA regulations, the OSHA regulations (29 CFR 1926) prevail. You should use the Fall Protection Handbook only as a general guide to fall protection practices and a companion to the actual regulations. This handbook should never be considered a substitute for any provisions of a regulation. Additionally, many states operate their own state occupational safety and health plans. These states may have adopted construction standards that are different from information presented in the Fall Protection Handbook. If you live in a state with an approved occupational safety and health plan, contact your local administrator for further information on the standards applicable in your state.
The Fall Protection Handbook includes six chapters, each of which explains and illustrated the fall protection safety requirements for a different aspect of the construction process in both English and Spanish. The Fall Protection Video contains segments in both English and Spanish.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Chapter 1: Overview of Fall Protection. Chapter 2: Ladders. Chapter 3: Fall Protection Systems. Chapter 4: Framing Operations. Chapter 5: Roofing Operations. Chapter 6: Other Safe Work Practices. Appendix. Sample Fall Protection Inspection Checklist. Glossary. |
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