OROSHA Construction Safety Guide

The ABCs of construction site safety including job hazard analysis barricades and general accident prevention.

Accident prevention and accident investigation

Accident prevention responsibilities – Division 3, Subdivision C, 1926.20(b)  It is the employer’s responsibility to maintain programs that comply with Oregon OSHA’s construction rules.

• Such programs must provide for frequent and regular inspections of the job sites, materials, and equipment by competent persons designated by the employer.
• Use of machinery, tools, material, or equipment that does not comply with applicable requirements of this rule is prohibited. Machines, tools, material, or equipment must be identified as unsafe by tagging or locking the controls to make them inoperable or must be physically removed from the place of operation.
• The employer must permit only those employees qualified by training or…