CARPENTRY CONTRACTORS

For Employees do you:

•     Enforce the use of goggles, safety shoes and hard hats?
•     Provide material handling equipment and train workers in proper lifting techniques?

For Pre-Job do you:

•     Study the jobsite to determine hazards, exposures, or unusual conditions?
•     Locate and mark utility lines/electrical equipment prior to starting work?

For Operations do you:

•     Adequately brace all construction, secure trusses against the wind?
•     Barricade all work areas?
•     Require barricade/covers for roof/wall/floor and other openings?
•     Use non-flammable adhesives when possible?
•     Deactivate hoists, take down ladders, lock up/remove power equipment at night?
•     Keep flammable liquids in sealed metal containers?
•     Keep equipment away from overhead wires?
•     Have easily accessible ladders, stairways, ramps for entry/exit?
•     Arrange site for easy access and safe maneuvering of equipment?
•     Keep the site free from sawdust, scrap, and other debris accumulation?
•     Store combustibles well away from the structure?
•     Restrict smoking in and around unfinished construction?

        For Scaffolding, Do you:

•             Follow proper anchoring procedures?
•             Use planking above sidewalks to protect public from dropped objects?
•             Enforce strict regulations against loose items on upper levels?
•             Follow manufacturers'/suppliers' recommendations for scaffolding use?
•             Use adjusting screws instead of blocking for scaffolds on uneven grades?
•             Regularly inspect/maintain scaffolding, ladders, hoists, and ropes?

For Equipment do you:

•     Regularly inspect, adjust, and clean UL approved gas/kerosene/oil space heaters?
•     Use only liquid-fired heaters equipped with a safety fuel shut-of device?
•     Properly guard saws?  Ground and inspect all equipment and tools?
•     Properly secure loads? Flag or escort oversized loads ahead/behind?
•     Fence, light and lock equipment storage locations?
•     Ground portable electric power generators if over 5 KW?
•     Bent fuel-powered generating equipment into open air?
•     Regularly inspect trailers and hitches?  Require use of a chain with hitches?