OSHA Auditing – Federal Compliance Guide – Construction is used to assess compliance at construction sites with federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations at 29 CFR 1926, as well as the agency’s general recordkeeping requirements at 29 CFR 1904. This guide covers OSHA construction regulations applicable at the majority of construction sites throughout the United States, helping safety auditors identify all relevant regulatory requirements and meet these challenges successfully.
It is written primarily for Corporate Audit, Site Safety Managers, Project Managers and EHS directors.
Benefits
- Enables a company to be proactive in avoiding health and safety violations, thus reducing costs associated with health and safety problems and the need to hire outside consultants
- Is a comprehensive one-stop information source on significant health and safety issues, responsibilities, good management practices, and regulations associated with ongoing construction activities
- Includes detailed procedural checklists that have been field-tested by STC’s own auditors. Provides a step-by-step approach for novice auditors in the Rulebooks
- Concise directives for expert auditors in the Scoresheets
Topic Areas
- Blasting and use of explosives
- Commercial diving operations
- Concrete and masonry
- Cranes, derricks, hoists, and lifts
- Demolition
- Electric power transmissions and distribution
- Electrical
- Excavations
- Fall protection
- Fire protection and prevention
- General safety and health
- Hand and power tools
- HAZWOPER
- Materials handling
- Motorized equipment and vehicles
| - Occupational exposures and environmental controls
- Personal protective and life-saving equipment
- Process safety
- Recordkeeping and posting
- Rollover protection equipment
- Scaffolding
- Signs, signals, and barricades
- Stairways and ladders
- Steel erection
- Toxic and hazardous substances
- Underground construction, caissons, cofferdams, and compressed air
- Welding and cutting
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Features
| Applicability Tables | Applicability Tables facilitate quick and easy determination of which regulations and sections of the checklists apply to specific facility operations |
| Pre-Audit Preparation | Lists materials to be reviewed before conducting an audit |
| Rulebook | Provides comprehensive, detailed requirement statements, with guidance on compliance issues and inspection procedures and practices |
| Scoresheet | Enables quick recording of a facility’s compliance status for each requirement.
Additional features include Customizable Scoresheets. |