Construction jobs

After the incident, special day foremen were appointed to supervise construction jobs and interface with the construction teams. The construction teams like this system because they deal with only one process foreman instead of four shift foremen. 

The first problems on the list are not specific to radon control but are encountered on nearly every construction job. In spite of quality control and communication problems and the understandable wariness builders show when asked to build something in a different way, the residential construction industry has responded to new techniques, materials, and public demands. The average house being built today is very different from a home built 20 years ago. If a product or a method can be demonstrated to reliably keep radon out without presenting significant problems with cost, scheduling, or installation, many builders would learn to use it. The major difficulty faced by mechanical barrier approaches is the thoroughness that seems to be required to ensure that no radon problem will occur. 

A construction job calls for 2- tons of sand. Four trucks, each filled with y tons of sand, arrive on the job. Is there enough sand, or is there too much sand for the job ... 

Incorrect While practicing outside with the soccer team, the noisy construction job distracted Jim. 

One construction job can be completed by 16 workers in 10 days. How many days would it take 8 workers to complete the job ... 

About 150,000 workers are exposed to zinc at their jobs. Jobs where people are exposed to zinc include zinc mining, smelting, and welding manufacture of brass, bronze, or other zinc-containing alloys manufacture of galvanized metals and manufacture of machine parts, rubber, paint, linoleum, oilcloths, batteries, some kinds of glass and ceramics, and dyes. People at construction jobs, automobile mechanics, and painters are also exposed to zinc. 

Although one should strive to construct jobs that are well designed on all the approaches, it is clear that there are some direct conflicts in design philosophies. As Table 1 illustrates, the benefits of some approaches are the costs of others. No one approach can satisfy all outcomes. As noted above, the greatest potential conflicts are between the motivational approach on the one hand and the mechanistic and perceptual/motor approaches on the other. They produce nearly opposite outcomes. The mechanistic and perceptual/motor approaches recommend designing jobs that are simple, easy to learn. 

In addition to the literature on job analysis, there is also a body of work which has focused solely on methods for identifying the hazards and risks associated with a job. As some examples, techniques such as job safety analysis, also referred to as job hazard analysis (Chao and Henshaw 2002), construction job safety analysis (Rozenfeld et al. 2010), and constmction hazard assessment with spatial and temporal exposure (Rosenfeld et al. 2009) have been extensively discussed. These techniques are very useful for safety management, and among other things can be used to generate safety-related information which can be used to determine the essential knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics which are required to perform the job safely. 

Rozenfeld, O., Sacks, R., Rosenfeld, Y., Baum, H. (2010). Construction job safety analysis. 

As a construction worker, your hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, backs, and legs may be subjected to thousands of repetitive twisting, forcefiil, or fiexing motions dming a typical workday. Many construction jobs can expose you to excessive vibration and noise, eye strain, repetitive motion, and heavy hfting. 

According to 29 CFR 1926.102, face protection is required when machines or operations present potential face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents. OSHA recommends face shields with plastic or mesh windows and welding helmets for operations listed in the regulation however, you will find that many construction jobs call for the employee to protect his or her face from hazards. Those hazards include ... 

Clearance is the evaluation undertaken to make sure that the intended work was actually done, and that the area is now safe for you and your family. It is similar to a punch list for a construction job, but in addition to looking at the specific work that was done, environmental testing is conducted to ensure that there are no lead hazards remaining. It should not be started until at least an hour has passed since the work was completed, to allow for most lead dust in the air to settle onto the floor and other surfaces. During this hour, no one should enter the work area, so that the dust will not be stirred up again. 

The ratios apply to accidents both of the same kind and involving the same person. Think about it. The premise lacks plausibility on its face. Consider this example. A worker reports to a construction job, takes the hoist to the tenth floor, and within minutes backs into an unguarded floor opening and falls to his death. For how many types of accidents occurring to the same person will the odds be 10 out of 11 that no injury occurs (Heinrich makes it clear in his fourth edition of Industrial Accident Prevention that the ratios pertain to accidents, and not unsafe acts.)... 

Historical monitoring data means monitoring data for construction jobs that meet the following conditions ... 

Big Buildings is a national firm with numerous construction jobs in hand at any one time. Thus, although it employs only perhaps ten workers directly on any one site, this adds up to many hundreds around the country. One might wonder, therefore, whether compensation costs could after all exert some safety pressure on it. 

Your letter quotes the definition of a rough-terrain forklift taken from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) standard B56.6, and you ask whether the standard only applies to various types of equipment used on construction job sites that conform to that definition. It reads in part, .a wheeled-type truck designed primarily as a fork truck with a vertical mast and/or pivoted boom, variable reach or of fixed length, which may be equipped with attachments. That definition describes rough-terrain forklifts that are used primarily... 

Scraper conveyors are widely used to handle bulk materials such as coal, ashes, potash, lime, grains, and other bulk materials. As shown in Figure 9-25, short, heavy-duty scraper conveyors are used to load elevator scrapers used on construction jobs, where large amounts of dirt must be moved. 

Table A27 Occupational construction job group hazards and significant proportional mortality rates (PMRs) for men in England and Wales. ...

This complex created in the relative wilderness of Labrador necessitated an approach to safety which not only included that of a normal construction job, but also community type services. 

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