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  • Location
  • Date

  • Safety Manager

  • Superintendent

  • Weather Conditions

  • Trade Partners Onsite

  • Legal Disclaimer

Safety Survey

Office Site Safety

  • All workers currently on site have attended the required orientation?

  • Emergency Response, Evacuation Plans and rescue procedure in place, muster points posted in field.

  • Safety bulletin board with safe workdays posted and current safety information

  • Toolbox safety meetings held weekly?

  • Trade Partner "competent person" identified

  • What trade partners have competent persons onsite?

  • Weekly safety meetings held with Trade Partner's Competent Person

  • SDSs provided and maintained in field office

  • JHA's are completed as needed/required

  • All PTSPs completed as needed/required.

  • Emergency phone numbers posted in office areas and field.

  • Drinking water available

  • Toilet facilities available, accessible, and clean

House Keeping

  • Trade Partners inspect and clean work areas daily. (Clean as you work)

  • Walking surfaces clear, clean, trip hazard eliminated. Emergency routes through the construction area free of obstacles and marked in the field

  • Trash/construction debris emptied regularly, disposal area neat, receptacles available

  • Nails, scrap metal/wood, water bottles/cans picked up from previous days

  • Materials storage, proper segregation, stacked properly, chocked, no danger of falling

PPE

  • Hard hats, safety glasses, high visibility vests / clothing and safety footwear worn by craft / management

  • Safety glasses with secure side shields being worn if needed.

  • Face shields/goggles worn where appropriate

  • Hearing protection used where appropriate

  • Glove Program in effect and worn where needed

  • Respirators/dust masks worn where appropriate, program in place, fit test, etc. (Fit tests must be completed by Trade Partner)

Fall Protection

  • Are fall hazards present on the project?

  • Are falls 6 feet and greater being protected?

  • Are personal fall arrest/ restrain systems being used?

  • Adequate full body harnesses are being worn?

  • Are the full body harnesses being worn correctly?

  • All fall protection equipment is in good shape and being inspected prior to every use?

  • Anchorage points for fall arrest meet required ratings

  • Lanyards with correct shock absorbers and or retractable device and double locking clips - Ensure Fall risk and distance has been established

  • Perimeter guarding provided, perimeter cables or wire rope properly installed

  • Are controlled access zones adequately barricaded/signage to identify fall protection hazard. i.e. debris chutes

  • Are all Holes greater than 2" adequately protected?

Site Safety

  • Flaggers for mobile equipment movements

  • Containers, Chemical materials labeled (labels legible)

  • Fuels, flammable materials stored properly

  • Evacuation routes are foreseen of (temporary) emergency signage and orientation lighting (min. 5 Lux). Adequate task lighting provided as appropriate

  • Equipment/tools in good working condition and guards in place where needed

  • "Auto kill switch" at handle on grinders

  • Are all impalement Hazards protected? Impalement caps installed

Ladders / Stairs

  • Proper type of ladder being used

  • Ladders are inspected daily?

  • Are ladders being stored properly?

  • Conductive (metal) ladders not in use near electrical panels/rooms.

  • Extension ladders tied off, and/or footed and secure, extended 36" above landing, 4/1 slope maintained

  • Workers not using top two steps on ladders

  • Stairs provided where needed >19", secured

  • Stairs greater than 4 risers are equipped with a handrail?

  • Safe access/egress for the stairs, material being stored on the stairs?

  • Have the pan stairs been poured/filled to prevent a tripping hazard?

Scaffolding

  • Scaffolding being used onsite?

  • All workers have been trained?

  • What type of scaffolding system is being used on the project?

  • Is the scaffolding built correctly, safe, and secured?

  • Scaffold planking overlaps 12"

  • Safe access/egress for scaffolds

  • Working platforms at least 2 feet wide?

  • All workers are protected from falls from scaffold by guardrail?

  • Are workers below protected from falling hazards?

  • Are materials being dispersed immediately after being loaded?

  • Is the working surface clear of redundant materials?

  • Is the scaffolding being tagged properly and inspected daily?

  • All workers, working from the scaffolding have been trained by a qualified person?

  • All workers erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold have been trained by a competent person?

Welding and Cutting

  • Hot Work taking place onsite?

  • Hot work permit in use, hot work watch established?

  • Compressed gas cylinders secured with chain or wire?

  • Cylinders capped when not in use?

  • Oxygen and flammable gas cylinders kept 20 feet apart or approved 1/2 hour fire wall separation

  • Torch, hoses, gauges, regulators and cables in good condition. Torch equipped with flashback regula

  • No combustible material in vicinity of hot work

  • Welding screens used where needed

  • Fire Extinguisher within 25 feet of hot work?

Lifting and Rigging

  • Lifting and Rigging operations onsite?

  • PTSP approved?

  • PTSP conference held onsite?

  • Swing radius protected at all time?

  • Daily and annual crane inspection documented?

  • Operator certification on hand?

  • Certified Rigger?

  • Qualified Signal Person?

  • What communication methods are being utilized?

  • Pre-lift checklist completed?

  • Rigging equipment inspected prior to use, used properly,

  • Tag lines used to control loads

  • Is the ground stable?

  • Mud mats required?

Excavation and Confined Space

  • Trenches and excavations onsite?

  • Soil classification identified

  • What is the soil classification?

  • Describe the methods used to classify the soil?

  • Trenches/excavations sloped properly or shored and barricaded

  • Adequate access in/out of excavations (max. 25')

  • Spoils, tools, paving materials etc. kept 3 feet back from excavation edge

  • Confined spaces work present onsite at time of the inspection?

  • Confined Space: Air monitoring (including continuous) performed

  • Permit Required Confined Space: Testing/monitoring results noted on the permit.

  • Ventilation being utilized?

  • What testing / air monitoring system is being utilized?

  • Permit Required Confined Space: Personnel properly trained

  • Permit Required Confined Space: Retrieval equipment available and used appropriately

  • Permit Required Confined Space: Standby attendant(s) present, communication means available

Motorized Equipment

  • Motorized equipment being used onsite?

  • Operators are trained to operate?

  • Proper inspections performed/documented?

  • Rollover protection in place and maintained?

  • Equipment used safely?

  • Backup alarms, horns are in working order?

  • Seatbelts used by all operators?

Electrical Safety

  • All extension cords have been inspected prior to the start of work?

  • Cords in good condition, no cuts or repairs w/ tape Cables secured (through doorways etc.), and off floor as much as possible to minimize trip hazard

  • Power cords protected where routing through chases, doorways, floor openings, etc. All extension cords shall be elevated and not on the floor.

  • GFCIs used for lead cords, GFCIs tested monthly

  • Grounding in working order on power tools, equipment

  • Temp electrical panels labeled, grounded and secured.

  • Conduit tightly connected to junction/outlet box, all breakers labeled and field outlets w/ circuit #

  • Adequate illumination 5' candles

  • Temporary wiring; power/lighting isolated from building structure and not presenting trip hazard

  • Precautions taken where overhead lines are present, No Work within min 20' clear

Approval

  • Date and time of approval

  • Approver's signature

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