What are the OSHA requirements for a general contractor or construction manager during steel erection?
Often, the controlling contractor does not know or understand the responsibility of implementing safety procedures during steel erection.
The following items are identified as the required standards:
- Require the erector to provide a safety plan for steel erectors
- Require the erector to provide a competent person to implement the plans and ensure employees have had safety training
- Safety plans need to include; release of floors to ensure fall protection is in place, fall object protection, and protection from overhead exposures for other trades below steel erection work.
- Provide adequate access roads and a firm and properly graded accessible work space area.
- Coordinate site layout of steel and critical life operations.
- Provide written approval to erectors to begin erection when concrete in footings, piers, wall and mortar in the masonry piers and walls have attained 75 percent of strength.
- Obtain engineer approval for all anchor bolt modifications.
- Ensure annual, monthly, and re-shift daily crane inspections.
