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‫بسم هللا الرحمن الرحیم‬

ENGINEERING FACULTY
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

LEC#29 CONSTRUCTION SAFETY


2 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)

Content:
• What is OSHA?
• Is there a need for OSHA?
• Has OSHA made a difference?
• What does OSHA do?
• Who Is covered by the OSH Act?
• OSHA Standards
• General.
3 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)

What is OSHA?
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
• Responsible for worker safety and
health protection
4 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
(OSHA)
• Is there a need for OSHA?
Each year... About 6,000 deaths from
workplace injuries
• An estimated 50,000 deaths from illnesses
cause by workplace exposures
• 6 million non-fatal workplace injuries
• Injuries alone cost U.S. businesses more than
$125 billion
5 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

• Has OSHA made a difference?


YES!
Since 1970 OSHA has:
• Cut the work-related fatality / casualty rate in half
• Reduced overall injury and illness rates in industries where OSHA
concentrated its attention.
• Virtually eliminated brown lung disease in the Virtually eliminated brown lung
disease in the textile industry, and
• Reduced trenching and excavation fatalities by Reduced trenching and
excavation fatalities by 35 percent.
6 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)

What does OSHA do?


• Encourages employers and employees to reduce
workplace hazards and implement new or improve
existing safety and health programs.
• Develops and enforces mandatory job safety and
health standards.
• Maintains a reporting and recordkeeping system to
monitor job-related injuries and illnesses.
• Provides assistance, training and other support,
programs to help employers and workers.
7 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)

Who is covered by the OSH Act?

• All employees and their employers under Government


authority.
• Coverage provided either directly by Government
OSHA or through an OSHA-approved state program.
• Does not cover the self-employed or immediate
members of farm families that do not employ outside
workers.
8 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)

OSHA Standards

• OSHA is responsible for writing and enforcing


standards that employers must follow.
• Where OSHA has not issued specific standards,
employers are responsible for following the OSH Act's
“General Duty Clause .
States with OSHA-approved programs must set
standards at least as effective as federal standards
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)
9

What does OSHA require?


• Determine which OSHA standards apply to your workplace.
• Follow the OSHA standards and Requirement
Introduction to EM 385-1-1 2008
Purpose. This manual prescribes the safety and health requirements for all Corps of Engineers
activities and operations.
Applicability.
• Headquarters US Army Corps of Engineers(HQUSACE) elements
• major subordinate commands districts
• centers
• Laboratories
• field operating activities (FOA)
• USACE contracts
10 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)
References.
a. 29 Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) 1910
b 29 CFR 1926b. 29 CFR 1926
c. 29 CFR 1960
d. Executive Order (EO) 12196
e. Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Clause 52 236-13
f. Department of Defense Instruction (DODI) 6055.1
g. Army Regulation (AR) 40-5
h. AR 385-10.
11 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
(OSHA)
General.
The provisions of this manual implement and
supplement the safety and health standards and
requirements referenced above. Where more
stringent or rigid safety and occupational health
standards are set forth in these requirements and
regulations, the more stringent standards shall
apply.
• Mission applicability introduced above shall
include the following:
12 OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
(OSHA)
Construction contract work under the provisions of
FAR Clause 52.236-13.
Contractors shall comply with the latest version of
EM 385-1-1 (including interim changes) that is in effect the date of solicitation.
Prior to making an offer, bidders should check the HQUSACE Safety and
Occupational Health web site for the latest changes.
No separate payment will be made for compliance with this paragraph or for
compliance with other safety and health requirements of this contract.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION (OSHA)
13

(2) Service, supply, and research and development contracting actions.


(3) Contracting actions for hazardous, toxic, an radioactive waste site
investigation, design, or remediation activities.
Compliance with this manual shall be a contract requirement.
c. Changes. All interim changes
(changes made between publication of new editions) to this manual and the
effective date of change will manual, and the effective date of change, will be
posted on the Safety and Occupational Health Office.
14 6 TOP KILLERS ON CONSTRUCTION
• 6 Top Killers on Construction:
• Top killers are those accident that are
very dangerous in construction industry
and cause lose of life.
• These accident cause that we don’t
reach to main idea of construction
industry like providing a good condition
of life ,development
15

6 TOP KILLERS ON CONSTRUCTION


• Falls
• Excavation cave-ins
• Struck by
• Electrocution
• Confined or limited space
• Vehicle Operations
16
BREAKDOWN OF FATALITIES
• 56% falls from height
• 19% trapped by something collapsing or overturning or Excavation cave-
ins
• 10% struck by a moving vehicle
• 5% contact with electricity or electrical discharge
• 4% struck by a flying/falling object during machine lifting of materials
• 3% contact with moving machinery or material being machined
• 2% exposure to confined space
• 1% exposure to a hot or harmful substance
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CONCLUSION
• All accidents are preventable.
• No job is worth getting hurt for.
• Every job will be done safely.
• Incidents can be managed.
• Safety is everyone’s responsibility.
• Continuous improvement. Safety as a “way of life” for 24 hours/day
• Legal obligations will be the minimum requirements for our health &
safety standards.

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