Construction Publications

Brochures, Catalogs, Guidebooks, and Manuals

This guide consists of 26 "A-to-Z" workplace safety topics for construction-industry employers. Most topics include key construction-industry rules and summarize what's necessary to comply.
4878 guidebook

Asbestos - Rules of Abatement

Covers what construction employers need to know about asbestos removal and maintenance based on the requirements of OR-OSHA's asbestos standard for the construction industry: 1926.1101.
2129 guidebook

Cold stress card

A description of the symptoms of frostbite and hypothermia, with instructions on how to help sufferers.
3336 card

Construction Ergonomics - Protect Your Back and Your Future

Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specific to the back.
4844a brochure

Construction Ergonomics - Protect Your Shoulders and Your Neck and Your Future

Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specific to the shoulders and neck.
4844b brochure

Construction Ergonomics: Protect Your Knees and Your Future

Musculoskeletal disorders are the leading cause of time-loss injuries for construction workers. This pamphlet offers tips you can implement today to protect yourself and your workers from costly soft tissue injuries, specifically knee injuries.
4844c brochure

Escaleras Portátiles: Como usarlas sin sufrir caídas

Portable ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down (Spanish)
3083s guidebook

Excavations

Describes Oregon OSHA's safety requirements for excavation work.
2174 guidebook

Fall Protection for the Construction Industry

Describes fall protection concepts for construction industry employers, employees, and others who don't have a professional background in fall protection and who want to see the "big picture." Also covers OR-OSHA's fall-protection rules for Oregon construction-industry employers.
2824 guidebook

Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
2824ce brochure

Fall Protection: Options for specialty contractors - Russian language

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
2824cr brochure

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.
2824ae brochure

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting and bracing wood trusses and rafters (Russian)

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.
2824ar guidebook

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting floor joists, sheathing/decking, and constructing exterior walls

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers set floor joists, do sheathing/decking work, and construct exterior walls.
2824be brochure

It's not just dust! What you should know about silicosis and crystalline silica

Tells you about the hazards of crystalline silica and teaches you about silicosis, what causes it, and how to prevent it.
3301 guidebook

Not designed to be occupied - How to work safely in a permit-required confined space

Focuses on confined spaces that may contain life-threatening hazards ? permit-required confined spaces, or permit spaces. Describes how to identify a permit space, covers OR-OSHA permit space standard and includes a CD with a generic permit-space program that you can use as a model for your own program.
2864 guidebook

Portable ladders: How to use them so they won't let you down

Describes key safe work practices for using portable ladders safely.
3083 guidebook

Protección Contra Caídas: Prácticas seguras para instalación de vigas en el piso, trabajos de revestimiento de cubiertas y construcción de paredes exteriores

Fall Protection: Safe practices for setting floor joists, sheathing/decking, and constructing exterior walls (Spanish version)
2824bs brochure

Protección Contra Caídas: Opciones para Contratistas Especializados

This short guide describes solutions to fall-protection problems that tradespeople such as electricians, drywall installers, and glaziers face every day. The guide emphasizes the importance of planning, supervision, and training; it includes options for protecting employees who work on roofs, in attics, and on established floors.
Esta guía concisa describe soluciones a los problemas de la protección contra caídas a la cual se enfrentan diariamente los profesionistas tal como los electricistas, los instaladores de tabla roca, y los vidrieros. La guía acentúa la importancia de planeamiento, supervisión, y entrenamiento; incluye opciones para la protección de obreros que trabajan en techos, áticos, y pisos establecidos.
2824cs brochure

Protect your back and your future

back_poster poster

Scaffolds: Temporary elevated work platforms

Helps you design, construct, and use scaffolds safely and highlights OR-OSHA's scaffold requirements for the construction industry. Describes work practices and identifies most types of scaffolds used in construction work.
3320 guidebook

Silica - An Oregon OSHA pocket reference

A quick pocket reference guide for addressing silica safety and health concerns
3301a reference

Tarjeta de Estrés por el Calor

Una descripción de los síntomas de agotamiento por el calor e insolación, con instrucciones en cómo ayundar a personas que son afectadas.
3333s card

Tarjeta de Estrés por el Frío

Una descripción de los síntomas del congelación parcial y la hipotermia, con instrucciones en cómo ayundar a personas que son afectadas.
3336s card

Underground Construction (tunneling)

An overview of safety and health rules for underground construction, including worker training, air monitoring, fire prevention and hazard communication, recordkeeping and other topics.
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Vehicle safety for small businesses in the construction industry

This guide from Oregon OSHA, targeted for the construction industry, covers vehicle safety best practices for small-business owners and their employees. The guide also has a sample vehicle safety program that you can modify and use as your own.
4767 guidebook

Fact Sheets, Hazard Alerts, and Tech Notes

03/17/09 Hazard Alert: Use of pneumatic nail guns

10/16/08 Fact Sheet: Using Warning Lines: Construction Industry Best Practices, Spanish Version
Como usar líneas de advertencia: Buenas prácticas en la industria de la construcción

04/08/08 Hazard Alert: Use of liquid propane tanks and heaters in construction

04/04/08 Hazard Alert: Roof skylight fall -skylight floor opening and hole to be guarded

10/12/07 Fact Sheet: Using Warning Lines: Construction Industry Best Practices

05/16/07 Fact Sheet: Asbestos

03/30/07 Hazard Alert: Aerial lift hydraulics fire hazard

01/11/07 Fact Sheet: Hexavalent Chromium

07/26/06 Fact Sheet: Motor Vehicle Safety for Employers and Employees

06/13/06 Hazard Alert: Gravity kills, Be alert for fall hazards

11/04/05 Fact Sheet: Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupters GFCI