Good Housekeeping
Cleaning and housekeeping on construction sites may not be the highest priority. To some, it may even seem like a waste of time or unnecessary. Nevertheless, good housekeeping practices can help prevent serious injuries and regulatory fines. Follow these best housekeeping practices:
- Keep aisles and passageways clear to provide for the free and safe movement of material handling equipment or employees. Such areas must be kept in good repair.
Aisles and passageways must be kept in good repair.
- During the construction, alteration, or repair work, clear forms and scrap lumber with protruding nails and all other debris from work areas, passageways, and stairs in and around buildings or other structures.
- Remove combustible scrap and debris at regular intervals during the course of construction. Be sure the means of removal process keeps employees safe.
- Provide containers for the collection and separation of waste, trash, oily and used rags, and other refuse.
- Equip containers used for garbage and other oily, flammable, or hazardous wastes (such as caustics, acids, harmful dusts, etc.) with covers. Dispose of garbage and other waste at frequent, regular intervals.
Real-World Accident
If you don't wear a hard hat on a construction site, it could kill you. On Monday, November 4, 2014, a New Jersey worker wasn't wearing his hard hat.
He died after a tape measure fell 50 stories and hit him in the head.
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