CONCRETE  CONTRACTORS

For Employees do you:

• Enforce the use of gloves, safety shoes, goggles and hard hats?
• Provide knee pads for kneeling operations/safety harnesses for aerial work?
• Provide material handling equipment and train workers in its use?
• Provide bright, reflective, and conspicuous clothing for flagmen?

For Operations do you:

• Keep power equipment away from overhead wires?
• Barricade all work areas?
• Properly erect/level/anchor/use only permanent scaffolding? Restrict loose items?
• Have accessible exit/entry ladders?  Remove ladders at the end of each day?
• Ensure that concrete mixing is done under competent supervision?
• Perform daily batch testing of concrete for reinforcement and stress levels?
• Record batch mixes and test pouring on a regular schedule?
• Properly brace and inspect all forms prior to pouring concrete?
• Enforce weight limits of hand carried materials?
• Arrange site for easy access/safe maneuvering of vehicles, equipment and workers?
• Ensure that decks/platforms are properly erected and railed? Secure loose items?
• Provide battery operated warnings lights around the jobsite at night?
• Help prevent damage to vehicles, trees, lawns and shrubs near the pour site?
• Ensure proper drainage and depth of the concrete to help prevent heaving?
• Use ample reinforcement such as reinforcing rods and wire mesh?
• Require use of guide when concrete trucks are dumping their loads?
• Use alarms/whistles or other warning signals during overhead/lifting operations?
• Use only treated tarpaulins to resist fire?
• Provide flagmen to direct traffic and warn pedestrians of hazardous operations?
• Use a watch service when providing heat overnight on a job site?
• Use and keep attended only approved heating units, with enclosed fuel/flames?
• Keep all combustible materials a safe distance from heating units?

For Equipment do you:

• Ground portable electric power generators if over 5 KW?
• Vent fuel-powered generating equipment into open air?
• Equip power-floats with dead man controls?
• Inspect/maintain scaffolding, ladders, hoists, ropes, and other equipment?
• Provide equipment with automatic audible back up alarms?