Construction work can be particularly hazardous. Personal protective equipment, fire safety, electrical safety, confined space entry, emergency preparedness, biological safety, chemical safety, hazardous waste disposal, vehicle safety and other precautions are essential for safe construction work. Barriers, guards, and warning signs are required to ensure safety against existing hazards.
The following list provides guidelines for using barriers and guards on construction site:
1. When necessary, reroute pedestrian and vehicular traffic to completely avoid a construction site.
2. Guard any permanent ground opening into which a person could fall with a guardrail, load-bearing cover, or other physical barrier.
3. Ensure that temporary floor openings, such as pits and open manholes, are guarded by secure, removable guardrails. If guardrails are not available, have someone guard the opening.
.4. Ensure that all stairways, ladderways, hatchways, or chute floor openings have handrails or hinged covers.
5. Ensure that enclosed stairways with four or more steps have at least one railing, and that open stairways with four or more steps have two railings.
6. Ensure that all platforms and walkways that are elevated or located next to moving machinery are equipped with handrails, guardrails, and toeboards.
7. Barricade any wall openings through which a person or tools could fall. Use gates, doors, guardrails, or other physical barriers to block the opening.
8. Mark and guard any excavation that is deeper than 12 inches.
9. Mark and/or guard potholes and sidewalk damage as appropriate.
10. Protect smoke detectors with some type of cover when construction work, such as dust or fume producing activities, may affect smoke detectors.
Remove protectors immediately at the end of the activity or at the end of the each day.
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