REBAR

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REBAR

• How to be safe when handling or working around
  rebar

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Presentation Arrangement

• What is Rebar?
• Safety Issues with and accidents caused by Rebar
• OSHA regulations
• Ways to avoid issues and accidents
• Case Studies

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Rebar is defined as

• A portmanteau for reinforcing bar or
  reinforcement bar, is common steel bar, an
  essential component of reinforced concrete and
  reinforced masonry structures. It is usually
  formed from carbon steel, and is given ridges for
  better frictional adhesion to the concrete.
• - Wikipedia

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Jobsite Safety Issues

• Rebar is used on nearly every construction job
• Top two types of accidents associated with rebar
  are impalements and abrasions
• Working with rebar also opens the door to pinch
  points, striking other works, causing aches and
  pains due to heavy lifting, flimsy iron needs to
  workers to handle, tripping and falling hazards,
  etc.

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OSHA and REBAR
1926.701(b) Reinforcing steel. All protruding
reinforcing steel, onto and into which employees
could fall, shall be guarded to eliminate the
hazard of impalement
1926.703 (d) Reinforcing
steel for walls, piers, columns,
and similar vertical structures shall be
adequately supported to prevent overturning and
to prevent collapse.
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Two Most Important Injuries

• Impalements are when workers fall on a piece of
  rebar with enough force to pierce that workers
  body

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• Abrasions usually happen when a worker rubs
  against a piece of rebar and gets scratched
  and/or cut from the sharp edges.
• These can be avoided by implementing a few
  safety pieces

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CAPS
To avoid impalement and abrasions each lower
level rebar protruding up must have a cap on it.
Protects against impalements
Protects against abrasions ONLY
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Remnants of Rebar

• When cutting rebar cutters make it easier and
  take less human force
• Protective gloves and eye
• wear should be used
• Small ends can fly up when
• being cut
• Pick up all pieces
• laying out
• The hard to see pieces can act
• as a tripping hazard
• When someone steps on them
• they act as a roller

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Back Breaking Work

• Tying and bending the rebar together caused back
  injuries and other joint related pains along with
  pinching fingers
• Extended arm bender and mechanical rebar tools
  help eliminate those injuries
• The tools need to be accessible to workers

Gloves should always been worn to reduce the
possibility of being pinched between pieces and
getting gets and scrapes
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Free Fallin
Proper tie-off equipment such as the lanyard
seen here should always been used when setting
rebar The rebar structures being climbed must be
able to support the weight of the workers and be
stable Tying off prevents the worker from
possibly being impaled on lower rebar even if
there were caps
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CASE STUDIES
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Be Careful

• Implement safe practices to avoid injuries
• Rebar can be dangerous
• Always wear PPE