www.thecontractorcoachingpartnership.com: While you, your workers or subs are up there doing your magic be aware that someone is watching you. Please be safe and use your fall protection equipment. Also don't let your subs work on your site unless they have their equipment, their documented training and then make sure they use it on your site. Failure to do so can bring OSHA to your site and the General Contractor can be cited and fined along with your sub for not making sure they work safe.
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OSHA is our governing body as builders. In the past I have heard stories of OSHA not really doing anything but once and a while you'd hear a story of some contractor getting royally screwed over out of the blue because of improper working conditions. It is good to see that OSHA is stepping up their game and is having more of a presence on job sites. There are so many things that are dangerous while working construction and OSHA's job is to limit that. But at the same time, OSHA gets in people's way. If you are nailing up some fascia and you just barely can't reach the end of the board with an outstretched arm and leaning just a little to your right could get you there, oh well, you better climb back down that ladder, call over 2 other guys (of course) to move the ladder just a little then climb back up and put that final nail in. While this seems stupid, it is in place to keep people safe and while leaning off a ladder a little bit might not be so terrible, you can't get in the habit of "no one is looking" or "Its just this one time" because as the article is pointing out, now people are always watching.
OSHA, OSHA, OSHA... Sometimes I feel like safety is this stick that people wave at very slight code violators to exercise some sort of authority complex. Obviously I know that safety is of the highest concern, but sometimes I feel like safety concerns are simply blown out of proportion relative to the hazard. In other cases, safety measures are implemented in situations that have absolutely no positive effect on the current situation, such as a mandate to wear hardhats when there is no overhead work going on! I think this country is better off with regulatory agencies such as OSHA, and certainly as opposed to countries with less regulation is lesser developed countries, but at some point there are just some rules that are over the top! The obsession over ladder protocol is one that does stand out in my mind. For example, three points of contact on a ladder at all times simply is just not going to happen if you actually plan on accomplishing any real work whatsoever! It's stuff like that I feel somewhat diminishes OSHA's credibility and makes it feel like somebody is again just "waving the stick" at you.
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