Helpful Materials for Construction Safety

Construction Safety

Contains information that helps workers identify and control the hazards that cause the most serious construction-related injuries. This eTool will help you identify and control the hazards that commonly cause the most serious construction injuries. Nearly 6.5 million people work at approximately 252,000 construction sites across the nation on any given day. The fatal injury rate for the construction industry is higher than the national average in this category for all industries.

NIOSH Safety and Health Topic: Construction Safety

Construction is a high hazard occupation. During the period from 1980 through 1995, at least 17,000 construction workers died from injuries suffered on the job. Construction lost more workers to traumatic injury death than any other major industrial sector during this time period. Construction has the third highest rate of death by injury: 15.2 deaths per 100,000 workers.

Construction Industry Credits

This page provides direct links to OSHA Construction Standards and agency policies.

• Compliance Information: This page contains links to the construction standards and lists key standards and compliance activities, addressing topics such as cranes, hurricane clean-up, steel erection, hexavalent chromium, focused inspections, towers, tilt-up panels, work zones, electric power generation, transmission, and distribution, ROPS, Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, Region 4 Construction Inspection Sweeps.

  
  

  
  

  • Construction Quick Start: This is a collection of information offered by OSHA's Compliance Assistance office of resources on the OSHA Internet page.

    
    

    
    

• Construction Topics: This contains a link to the OSHA "Safety and Health Topics" pages that contain subject specific informatiion.

  
  

  
  

• Construction eTools. These eTools are "stand-alone", interactive, Web-based training tools on construction topics. They are highly illustrated and utilize graphical menus as well as expert system modules. These modules enable the user to answer questions, and receive reliable advice on how OSHA regulations apply to their work site. eTools do not include expert systems but are fully illustrated. Expert Advisors are based solely on expert systems.

  
  

  
  

• Publications: OSHA develops numerous safety and health publications. This page contains a selection that applies to construction.

Safety Compliance Training Videos:

Construction Safety Program Courses