![]() ![]() Job Safety Analysis (JSA) or Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) All these accidents can be controlled by compliance with OSHA standards, such as creating a In a recent BLS study, 72 percent of workers injured in scaffold accidents attributed the accident either to the planking or support giving way, or to the employee slipping or being struck by a falling object. Stresses that protecting workers from scaffold-related accidents could prevent some of the 4,500 injuries and over 60 deaths every year (Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 20 data for the private sector). An estimated 2.3 million construction workers, or 65 percent of the construction industry, work with scaffolding. Scaffolding (also referred to as staging) is widely used to gain access to areas that would otherwise be difficult to reach. ![]() Is a temporary structure used to aid in the construction and/or maintenance of buildings. According to a “Toolbox Talk” on scaffolding safety released by OSHA as part of its National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls in Construction, “Hardly a workday goes by without a construction worker falling off a scaffold to his death. Violations of OSHA’s scaffolding standard are a mainstay on the agency’s annual Top 10 list of most cited standards, also ranking fourth in FY 2020 and third in FY 2019. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced its preliminary Top 10 most frequently cited workplace safety standards for fiscal year 2021. ![]() OSHA Top 10 Series: Scaffolding-General Requirements-Construction. ![]()
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