According to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Labor, Safety, and Health, more than one third of all fatal accidents in the construction industry are a result of falls. The fall protection video and handbook provides the construction industry with critically important information for maintaining a safe work site environment. The two products compliment each other and serve as easy-to-use resources for both English-and Spanish-speaking employees.
The 30-minute video can be used by builders to train workers to use safe work practices that eliminate fall hazards and comply with OSHA fall-protection standards and provides guidelines for creating a written fall-protection plan and identifying safe work practices that can prevent costly accidents and injuries. Written with clear text, photographs, and illustrations, the book serves as a user-friendly resource for promoting safety on any job site.
Information provided addresses:
- Select and use the right ladder
- Protect from injuries surrounding stairways, leading edges, window and wall openings and floor holes
- Use a personal fall arrest system (PFAS)
- Safely build and erect exterior and balloon-framed walls
- Securely construct rafters and install roof trusses and sheathing
- Provide fall protection for application of roofing materials
- Guard against implement hazards
- Provide protection from falling objects
- Use safe job site practices to protect workers operating at heights
- Train workers to identify fall protection hazards
Have you fallen at an unsafe construction site? Are you unable to work because of this fall? Are you in great pain because of the fall? Has a loved one died because of an unsafe construction site fall? Workers compensation is not enough. Anapol Schwartz advises that you contact a New Jersey law firm or Pennsylvania law firm so they can evaluate the facts and see if you have a construction site unsafe fall lawsuit.
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