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Our OSHA Guide for the Construction Industry makes your job easier by providing construction employers with the basic tools for a safer worksite. The Guide focuses on those standards most frequently overlooked and violated by employers in the construction industry, including a list of the top 20 most-violated construction industry standards.

Informative and easy-to-understand, the Guide includes pertinent safety checklists and forms, plus a directory of state and federal health and safety agencies. Other topics discussed include:

• The decision reversing over 30 years of enforcement precedent by giving general contractors a possible defense against "controlling employer" liability under the multi-employer doctrine
• Hazard Communication and an explanation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs) within the context of the HazCom Standard
• Separate, in-depth chapters on excavation and trenching, asbestos, fall protection, and scaffolds
• Checklist of commonly required safety plans and six sample plans that can be copied and used, plus a CD of these six plans with interactive features that allow users to modify, save, and print the following plans using Microsoft Word:
  • Emergency Action
  • Excavation and Trenching
  • Fall Protection for Residential Construction
  • General Health and Safety for Construction
  • Hazard Assessment and PPE
  • Hazard Communication
• Updated and expanded training chapter that explains how to identify training needs, gives an overview of OSHA training fundamentals, and summarizes training requirements by topic
• Digest of OSHA construction industry standards, including discussion of OSHA's new rule on assigned protection factors for respiratory protection, including the effect of the rule on the Asbestos Standard
• Recordkeeping, reporting, and posting requirements, including sample 300 and 301 logs, along with discussion, instructions, and exemptions