Construction and Contractor Safety - Responsibility, Management, and Basic Safety Considerations - a PDH Online Course for Engineers. Architects and Surveyors

Construction and Contractor Safety - Responsibility, Management, and Basic Safety Considerations

Course Outline

This course explores the following questions:

1. Who is responsible for Contractor and Construction Safety?
2. Whom would OSHA cite if a violation were to occur?
3. What are the basic construction safety considerations of which I should be aware?
4. How do I enforce and manage safety?
5. How do I hire a safe Contractor?

Although not intended to replace further study, offer legal advise, or claim to comprehensively represent regulations, this course will provide a practical overview to the student and enable him or her to better understand primary safety elements and our collective responsibilities.

This course includes a multiple choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course materials.

Learning Objective

Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to better undersand the following:

Responsibility for construction safety. These include the following areas:

a. Ethics
b. Contractual
c. Legal
d. OSHA Citability Exposure for Contractor Safety - understand the primary categores, including Creating, Exposing, Correcting, and Controlling Employers
Understand the need for prior Emergency Procedures
Know what you should expect from a Contractor
Understand the basic elements of Construction Safety as it relates to the means of injury prevention

a. Protecting the Body: PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
b. Protecting specific body parts and functions, such as the head, feet, face, eyes, hearing, hands, hair, torso, and respiratory
c. Basic thoughts on electrical safety
d. Clothing
e. Other protections, such as against falls, tools/equipment, excavations, chemicals, fires, and lighting.
f. Protection from "Live" or Stored Energy
g. Effective Ergonomics
h. Protection from Cranes and Hoisting Equipment
i. Protection from Compressed Gas Cylinders Failures
j. Protection from Injury in Confined Spaces
k. Other personal protection means and methods
Review other Safety aspects, including area protection, signage, housekeeping, disposal via chutes, and considerations to prevent structural failure
Review effective safety enforcement strategies, including positive and negative reinforcement
Review techniques to maximize the ability to hire safe contractors
Complete a Self-directed exercise

Intended Audience

The intended audience includes Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Owners, and others involved in Construction. This course is especially helpful to those wishing to learn more about construction safety and their responsibilities, or those needing a review.

Benefit to Attendees

This course will provide a practical overview to the student and enable him or her to better understand primary safety elements and our collective responsibilities. They will also be better able to know what to expect from a contractor, as well as their own safety on a jobsite.

Course Introduction

Who is responsible for Contractor and Construction Safety? Whom would OSHA cite if a violation were to occur? What are the basic construction safety considerations of which I should be aware? How do I enforce and manage safety? How do I hire a safe Contractor? This course explores these questions. Although not intended to replace further study, offer legal advise, or claim to comprehensively represent regulations, this course will provide a practical overview to the student and enable him or her to better understand safety and our collective responsibilities. This course is written from a decidedly "Owner's" perspective, with applications to the A/E (Architect/Engineer). In addition, engineers involved in Construction will benefit from the course.

Course Content

The course content is in a PDF file (59 KB) Construction and Contractor Safety - Responsibility, Management, and Basic Safety Considerations. You need to open or download this document to study this course.

Course Content

1. Who is respnsible for Construction safety?

a. Ethics
b. Contractual
c. Legal
d. OSHA Citability Exposure for Contractor Safety

i. Creating Employer
ii. Exposing Employer
iii. Correcting Employer
iv. Controlling Employer

2. Emergency Procedures
3. What you should expect from a Contractor
4. Basic Construction Safety - Means of Injury Prevention

a. Protecting the Body: PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
b. Head
c. Feet
d. Face and Eyes
e. Ears
f. Respiratory
g. Hands
h. Hair
i. Torso
j. Electrical Safety
k. Clothing
l. Protection against falls
m. Protection from Tools and Equipment
n. Protection from Excavating Hazards
o. Protection against Fires
p. Protection against working in the Dark - Jobsite Lighting
q. Protection against Chemical Injury
r. Protection from "Live" or Stored Energy
s. Protection against Electrical Injury
t. Protect from injury by Ergonomics
u. Protection from Cranes and Hoisting Equipment
v. Protection from Compressed Gas Cylinders Failures
w. Protection from Injury in Confined Spaces
x. Other personal protection means and methods

5. Other

a. Area Protection
b. Signage
c. Housekeeping
d. Disposal
e. Structural Failure

6. Effective Enforcement

7. Hiring Safe Contractors

a. Experience
b. Contractor's Safety Program
c. EMR (Experience Modification Ratio
d. OSHA 200 Logs
e. OSHA Citations
f. Licensing Board

8. Self-Directed Exercise

Course Summary

In this course, we review responsibilities for safety. We also look at the considerations OSHA may use to determine whom is citable for a safety violation. Then, we review basic safety considerations to prevent or minimize the risk of accidents and injury. We conclude with a review of enforcement, and strategies to hire a safe contractor.

Quiz

Once you finish studying the above course content, you need to take a quiz to obtain the PDH credits.

DISCLAIMER: The materials contained in the online course are not intended as a representation or warranty on the part of PDH Center or any other person/organization named herein. The materials are for general information only. They are not a substitute for competent professional advice. Application of this information to a specific project should be reviewed by a registered architect and/or professional engineer/surveyor. Anyone making use of the information set forth herein does so at their own risk and assumes any and all resulting liability arising therefrom.