Fill-in Word documents that accompany the publication, Vehicle safety for small businesses in the construction industry

Asbestos - Rules of Abatement

Covers what construction employers need to know about asbestos removal and maintenance based on the requirements of OR-OSHA's asbestos standard for the construction industry: 1926.1101.

Underground Construction (tunneling)

An overview of safety and health rules for underground construction, including worker training, air monitoring, fire prevention and hazard communication, recordkeeping and other topics.

Excavations

Describes OR-OSHA?s safety requirements for excavation work.

WEB ONLY - Occupational hazards common to construction and remodeling in Oregon

A checklist developed this checklist to help employers and employees in the construction and remodeling industry become more aware of occupational hazards that exist within their work environment, and for identifying and correcting jobsite hazards.

Oregon OSHA's Fall Protection for the Construction Industry

Describes fall protection concepts for construction industry employers, employees, and others who don't have a professional background in fall protection and who want to see the "big picture." Also covers OR-OSHA's fall-protection rules for Oregon construction-industry employers.

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters (Russian)

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting floor joists, sheathing/decking, and constructing exterior walls

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers set floor joists, do sheathing/decking work, and construct exterior walls.

Protección Contra Caídas: Prácticas seguras para instalación de vigas en el piso, trabajos de revestimiento de cubiertas y construcción de paredes exteriores

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting floor joists, sheathing/decking, and constructing exterior walls (Spanish version)

Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.

Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors - Russian language

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.

Protección Contra Caídas: Opciones para Contratistas Especializados

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
Esta guía concisa describe soluciones a los problemas de la protección contra caídas a la cual se enfrentan diariamente los profesionistas tal como los electricistas, los instaladores de tabla roca, y los vidrieros. La guía acentúa la importancia de planeamiento, supervisión, y entrenamiento; incluye opciones para la protección de obreros que trabajan en techos, áticos, y pisos establecidos.

Not designed to be occupied - How to work safely in a permit-required confined space

Focuses on confined spaces that may contain life-threatening hazards ? permit-required confined spaces, or permit spaces. Describes how to identify a permit space, covers OR-OSHA permit space standard and includes a CD with a generic permit-space program that you can use as a model for your own program.

Portable ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down

Describes key safe work practices for using portable ladders safely.

Escaleras Portátiles: Como usarlas sin sufrir caídas

Portable ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down (Spanish)

It's not just dust! What you should know about silicosis and crystalline silica

Tells you about the hazards of crystalline silica and teaches you about silicosis, what causes it, and how to prevent it.

Silica - An Oregon OSHA pocket reference

A quick pocket reference guide for addressing silica safety and health concerns

Scaffolds: Temporary elevated work platforms

Helps you design, construct, and use scaffolds safely and highlights OR-OSHA's scaffold requirements for the construction industry. Describes work practices and identifies most types of scaffolds used in construction work.

Tarjeta de Estrés por el Calor

Una descripción de los síntomas de agotamiento por el calor e insolación, con instrucciones en cómo ayundar a personas que son afectadas.

Cold stress card

A description of the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help sufferers.

Tarjeta de Estrés por el Frío

Una descripción de los síntomas del congelación parcial y la hipotermia, con instrucciones en cómo ayundar a personas que son afectadas.

Working with lead paint: best management practices for painters and remodelers

Covers safe practices for remodeling, painting and abatement work. Includes OR-OSHA worker protection requirements.

Vehicle safety for small businesses in the construction industry

This guide from Oregon OSHA, targeted for the construction industry, covers vehicle safety best practices for small-business owners and their employees. The guide also has a sample vehicle safety program that you can modify and use as your own.

Fact Sheet: Noise exposure and hearing conservation

Describes conditions under which an employer is required to have a hearing conservation program in place; discusses noise monitoring, controls, and audiometric testing; includes a brief overview of requirements.

Fact Sheet: Walking-working surfaces, standard railings

Details requirements for guardrails to prevent falls from open-sided floors, platforms, stairway floor openings, and walking or working surfaces that are more than 4 feet above the ground; describes the use of standard railings, stair railings, and toeboards.

Fact Sheet: Permit-required confined spaces

Describes the difference between ordinary confined spaces and permit-required confined spaces, requirements for entry procedures, and emergency plans.

Fact Sheet: Ground-fault circuit interrupters GFCI

Describes GFCI requirements in construction, details how GFCIs protect workers from electrocution, and addresses common errors.

Fact Sheet: Motor vehicle safety for employers and employees

This fact sheet covers basic elements of vehicle safety for employers and employees

Fact Sheet: Hexavalent chromium

Describes the sources of hexavalent chromium, the risks of exposure and those likely to by affected - typically workers who handle pigments containing dry chromate and spray paints and coatings containing chromate, workers who operate chrome plating baths, and those who weld or cut metals containing chromium

Fact Sheet: Asbestos

An overview of health hazards associated with asbestos. Briefly describes work classes for asbestos removal, repair and maintenance, and custodial activities. Includes answers to frequently asked questions.

Fact Sheet: Using warning lines: Construction industry best practices

This fact sheet explains construction-industry best practices for using a warning line to alert workers they are approaching an unprotected edge of a roof, floor, or other work surface.