Infrastructure Safety and Health

Safely Building a Better America

This construction infrastructure safety and health webpage is intended to be a resource for contractors and other employers working on improving and building our nation’s infrastructure. It is also intended to be a resource for workers, their families, and their representatives. At OSHA our mission is to ensure that workplaces are safe and healthy, and we believe that mission requires all workplaces to make safety and health a core value. This is especially important for the critical work being undertaken through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

OSHA believes that one vital element to ensure that safety and health is a core value is for every workplace to implement and integrate a written safety and health plan or program as part of their overall safety and health management system. This written plan or program will help to ensure that worksite hazards are recognized and controlled and that site-specific training needs are addressed. While contractors and employers are responsible for maintaining and modifying their safety and health plans or programs to meet site-specific hazards, the written plan will also help to facilitate the engagement and involvement of workers. This engagement and involvement of workers will encourage them to identify and report hazards, be involved in the plan, and to ensure that work only starts when the right safety and health controls are in place and to stop the work when those controls need to be adjusted, replaced or improved.

This webpage will help you learn more about the four leading hazards in the construction industry as well as other common construction hazards and how to better identify and control those hazards as part of the written plan so that every worker can leave work and return to their family at the end of each workday.

Focus Four Hazards: Standards and Resources

 

Fall Hazard Focus
Fall Hazard Topics and Related Information
Construction (29 CFR 1926) Related Information

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1926 Subpart L - Scaffolds
  • 1926.450 - Scope, application and definitions applicable to this subpart.
  • 1926.451 - General requirements.
  • 1926.452 - Additional requirements applicable to specific types of scaffolds.
  • 1926.453 - Aerial lifts.
  • 1926.454 - Training requirements.

*Excluding 1926.451(h)-under falling object protection

1926 Subpart M - Fall Protection
  • 1926.500 - Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.
  • 1926.501 - Duty to have fall protection.
  • 1926.502 - Fall protection systems criteria and practices.
  • 1926.503 - Training requirements.

1926 Subpart Q - Concrete & Masonry

1926 Subpart R - Steel Erection

1926 Subpart X - Stairways & Ladders

1926 Subpart AA - Confined Space in Construction
Struck-By Hazard Focus
Struck-By Object Hazard Topics and Related Information
Construction (29 CFR 1926) Related Information

1926 Subpart E - Personal Protective and Life Saving Equipment

1926 Subpart G - Signs, Signals, and Barricades

1926 Subpart H - Materials Handling, Storage, Use, and Disposal
  • 1926.250 - General requirements for storage.
  • 1926.251 - Rigging equipment for material handling.
  • 1926.252 - Disposal of waste materials.

1926 Subpart I - Tools - Hand and Power

1926 Subpart L - Scaffolding
  • 1926.451(h) - General requirements - Falling object protection.

1926 Subpart M - Protection from falling objects.

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1926 Subpart R - Steel Erection

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1926 Subpart O - Motor Vehicles
Caught in or Between Hazard Focus
Caught-In or Between Hazard Topics and Related Information
Construction (29 CFR 1926) Related Information

1926 Subpart I - Tools - Hand and Power

1926 Subpart P - Excavations
Electrocution Hazard Focus
Electrocution Hazard Standards and Related Information
Construction (29 CFR 1926) Related Information

1926 Subpart I - Tools - Hand and Power

1926 Subpart K - Electrical
  • 1926.400 - Introduction.
  • 1926.401 - Reserved
  • 1926.402 - Applicability.
  • 1926.403 - General requirements.
  • 1926.404 - Wiring design and protection.
  • 1926.405 - Wiring methods, components, and equipment for general use.
  • 1926.406 - Specific purpose equipment and installations.
  • 1926.407 - Hazardous (classified) locations.
  • 1926.408 - Special systems.
  • 1926.409 through 415 Reserved
  • 1926.416 - General requirements.
  • 1926.417 - Lockout and tagging of circuits.
  • 1926.418-430 Reserved
  • 1926.431 - Maintenance of equipment.
  • 1926.432 - Environmental deterioration of equipment.
  • 1926.433 through 440 Reserved
  • 1926.441 - Batteries and battery charging.
  • 1926.442 through 448 Reserved
  • 1926.449 - Definitions applicable to this subpart.

1926 Subpart L - Scaffolds

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1926 Subpart O - Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment, and Marine Operations
  • 1926.600(a)(6) - Equipment in vicinity of power lines or energized transmitters

1926 Subpart V -

1926 Subpart CC - Cranes and Derricks
  • 1926.1407 - Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—assembly and disassembly.
  • 1926.1408 - Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—equipment operations.
  • 1926.1409 - Power line safety (over 350 kV).
  • 1926.1410 - Power line safety (all voltages)—equipment operations closer than the Table A zone.
  • 1926.1411 - Power line safety—while traveling.

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