Oregon OSHA's 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.

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.

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.

Protección Contra Caídas: Prácticas Seguras para Instalar y Reforzar Armaduras de Cubierta y Cabios de Madera

Describes how to eliminate or minimize fall hazards for workers who set and brace wood trusses and rafters.
Esta guía explica como puede eliminar o reducir los peligros de las caídas para trabajadores que instalan y reforzan armaduras de cubierta y cabios de madera.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fact Sheet: Walking-working surfaces, standard railings

Details requirements for guardrails to prevent falls from open-sided floors, platforms, stairway floor openings, and walking or working surfaces that are more than 4 feet above the ground; describes the use of standard railings, stair railings, and toeboards.

Fact Sheet: Using warning lines: Construction industry best practices

This fact sheet explains construction-industry best practices for using a warning line to alert workers they are approaching an unprotected edge of a roof, floor, or other work surface.