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Construction Site Safety, Part 2

June 20, 2017
Tips to help keep you safe while on a construction site.

Construction sites are inherently dangerous. These practices will help keep you safe.

  • Operate only the equipment you are authorized to operate on that site. Authorization on other jobs isn’t relevant. There may be site-specific safety considerations you don’t know about.
  • If you spot unauthorized operation, ask the person to stop immediately.
  • Don’t “borrow” equipment from other crews or trades. You have no idea if the “borrowed” equipment has been mishandled or damaged.
  • Don’t “loan” equipment to other crews or trades. They may not know how to use it safely, and the next time you use it could end badly for you.
  • When checking equipment out from a tool crib, perform your own inspection before signing for it.
  • If someone outside your crew uses your conduit bender, take it out of service until a determination can be made regarding the bending shoe integrity. At one site, an electrician from another crew tried to bend conduit in an EMT shoe and cracked the shoe.
  • Inspect equipment before and after use.

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