01.A.18 USACE SOH Professional and Collateral Duty Safety Officer (CDSO).
See Appendix Q. Organizations must assign a safety point of contact (POC) for all construction and/or maintenance activities, dredging, field sampling, drilling and any other potentially hazardous tasks.
The CDSO - Safety is an additional duty.
A safety POC is a worker that has knowledge of the work being performed and the associated hazards and controls associated with it.
- For all activities with a high potential for injury or illness and/or a RAC on the AHA of high or extremely high, a SOH Professional must be on site full time. The SOH Professional must have reviewed the hazards and appropriate controls with the local SOHO.
- If a project or task has been assessed with a RAC of low:
- (1) A Safety POC or CDSO as identified in the AHA, must be on the project site at all times when work is being performed.
- (2) And it contains multiple sites, a Safety POC must be appointed for each site where remote work locations are more than 45-minutes travel time from the CDSO's main duty location. POCs must perform safety program tasks as designated by the SOH Professional, Project Safety Officer or CDSO and report safety findings to the appropriate level.
- Note: CDSOs are formerly identified personnel with safety duties in addition to their full-time occupation.
- If a project or task has been assessed with a RAC for the project of medium:
- (1) A CDSO, as identified in the AHA, must be on the project site at all times when work is being performed.
- (2) And it contains multiple sites, a Safety POC must be appointed for each site where remote work locations are more than 45-minutes travel time from the CDSO's main duty location. POCs must perform safety program tasks as designated by the SOH Professional, Project Safety Officer or CDSO and report safety findings to the appropriate level.
- A CDSO may NOT be assigned to projects that have a RAC level of high or extremely high.
- The responsibilities of the government Safety POC/CDSO are:
- (1) To ensure the hazards identified in the AHA are appropriately addressed;
- (2) Provide training on the hazards of the activity and PPE or controls to be utilized;
- (3) Provide feedback on the work activities as to how to improve the safety of the activity, and
- (4) Document the safety and health controls being used and implemented.
- Project SO, CDSO and Safety POC must seek support and information from the local SOHO if there is a verbalized concern or someone becomes injured or ill.
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1-9. Who must be on site full time for all activities with a high potential for injury or illness and/or a Risk Assessment Code (RAC) on the AHA of high or extremely high?
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