Aimed specifically at residential and light commercial contractors, this easy-to-read, easy-to-use book gives you practical guidelines on how to develop an effective safety management systemÑso necessary for the prevention of worksite injuries and illnesses, effective handling of emergencies, and complying with OSHA and other regulatory standards. Written by a nationally known safety and construction specialist, Construction Safety Manual provides in-depth information and advice on key elements critical to any safety operation, such as: Safety Management Principles, Safety Meetings & Training, Hazardous Energy Control, Material Handling, Mobile Equipment Safety, Hand & Power Tools & Equipment, Fall Prevention, Personal Protective Equipment, Hazard Communications, Safe Procedures Development, Employee Participation, and many, many others. Fully illustrated, the handbook also includes copyable forms to help you meet your legal obligations.
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Ensure the safety of your staff--and the security of your business. On-the-job safety isn't optional--or simple--any more. This clear, concise, and easy-to-use manual is the only comprehensive guide available to help you develop, install, and maintain an effective safety management system customized to meet your own company's requirements. Its main goal is to help prevent worksite injuries and illnesses on residential and light commercial construction sites, but it will also help avoid needless direct and indirect costs associated with accidents and regulatory infractions. Safety expert Dave Heberle's Construction Safety Manual shows you how to: reduce employee worksite injuries and illnesses; develop supervisors and crew leaders; prepare and deliver effective safety training; gain employee acceptance and participation; employ behavior-based safety techniques; reduce at-risk behaviors and increase safe ones; achieve continuous safety improvements; deal with record-keeping; exceed regulatory standards; work with (instead of "at odds with") OSHA; reduce Worker's Compensation costs; prepare and deal with emergencies; use your safety program to help promote your business. Equally handy on your desk or at your worksite, Construction Safety Manual gives you the bottom-line answers your need on safety and compliance in residential and light commercial construction. It's a time- and money-saver you'll be glad that you own.
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Dave Heberle is a widely respected environmental safety and health specialist who has written extensively on these subjects. He is coauthor of McGraw-Hill's How to Plan, Contract, and Build Your Own Home, Second Edition, and many other books and magazine articles on home construction, maintenance, real estate, and safety. Mr. Heberle has provided safety support, training, and related communications to manufacturing and service organizations for 20 years. He is currently a safety and health specialist with a Fortune 500 company.
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On the plus side, this book is a nice compilation of construction safety information. On the negative side, however, some of the chapters in this book follow OSHA publications almost word-for-word. This book could have expanded more on the OSHA subjects, rather than just repeat everything out of the OSHA publications.I decided to return the book and instead just download copies of the OSHA publications from the OSHA website (it's free!).
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1. To a certain extent, getting injured "accidentally" is a matter of probability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
understanding safe ways, taking safety risks, correcting unsafe behavior, equipment grounding conductor program, sided lower portions, hazardous energy control, construction worksites, worksite injuries, heavy mobile equipment, maximum allowable slope, thermal system insulation, safety incentive programs, recordable incidents, safety expertise, roof widths, safety eyewear, canal caps, safety model, total employee involvement, safety management program, recordable case, slipping hazards, aerial lift, general safety rules, recordable injuries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Labor, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Hazard Communication Standard, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Removed Safe Work, Rewarded Understanding Safe Ways, All Class, American National Standards Institute, National Toxicology Program, New York, United States, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Department of Transportation, Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Time Explosive, Time Oxygen, Time Toxic, Witness Interview Form, Bureau of Mines, Providing Safety Expertise, White Tag White, Worksite Injury Report New!
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1. To a certain extent, getting injured "accidentally" is a matter of probability. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
understanding safe ways, taking safety risks, correcting unsafe behavior, equipment grounding conductor program, sided lower portions, hazardous energy control, construction worksites, worksite injuries, heavy mobile equipment, maximum allowable slope, thermal system insulation, safety incentive programs, recordable incidents, safety expertise, roof widths, safety eyewear, canal caps, safety model, total employee involvement, safety management program, recordable case, slipping hazards, aerial lift, general safety rules, recordable injuries Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Department of Labor, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Hazard Communication Standard, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Removed Safe Work, Rewarded Understanding Safe Ways, All Class, American National Standards Institute, National Toxicology Program, New York, United States, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Department of Transportation, Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Time Explosive, Time Oxygen, Time Toxic, Witness Interview Form, Bureau of Mines, Providing Safety Expertise, White Tag White, Worksite Injury Report New!
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- Annual Report 2002 by National Adult Literacy Agency on 4 pages
- Structural Steel Fabrication Practices by John W. Shuster in Front Matter
- Documents, Contracts and Worksheets for Home Builders by Al Trellis in Front Matter
- First Aid by Bureau of Mines on page 98
- National Building Codes Handbook by Jonathan F. Hutchings in Front Matter
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- Construction Technology for Tall Buildings (2nd Edition) by Michael Chew Yit Lin on page 33
- Construction Safety Manual by Dave Heberle in Front Matter
- How to Plan, Contract and Build Your Own Home by Richard M. Scutella in Back Matter
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