Competent Person for Construction

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Competent Person for Construction
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What is a competent person?

• Capable of identifying
• Existing and predictable hazards
• Unsanitary, hazardous, dangerous conditions
• Authorized to take corrective measures

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Why use a competent person?

• Standards explicitly require
• Employer to train employees
• Safety and health aspects

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Other OSHA standards

• Employers responsibility to limit
• Job assignments to employees

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Other OSHA standards

• Certified, competent, or qualified
• Special previous training

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OSHA believes

• Training is an essential part
• Safety and health program

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.20, General safety and health provisions
• 1926.53, Ionizing radiation

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.62, Lead
• 1926.101, Hearing Protection

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.251, Rigging equipment for material handling
  
• 1926.354, Welding, cutting, and heating in way
  of preservative coatings

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.404, Wiring design and protection
• 1926.451, Scaffolds
• 1926.454, Scaffolds, Training requirements

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.500, Fall Protections, Scope, application,
  and definitions applicable to this subpart

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.502, Fall protection systems criteria and
  practices
• 1926 Subpart M App C, Personal Fall Arrest
  Systems - Non-Mandatory Guidelines for Complying
  with 1926.502(d)

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926 Subpart M App E, Sample Fall Protection Plan
  - Non-Mandatory Guidelines for Complying with
  1926.502(k)

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.503, Fall Protection, Training Requirements
• 1926.550, Cranes and derricks

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.552, Material hoists, personnel hoists, and
  elevators
• 1926 Subpart P App A, Excavations, Soil
  Classification

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926 Subpart P App B, Excavations, Sloping and
  Benching

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.651, Specific Excavation Requirements
• 1926.651, Specific Excavation Requirements

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.705, Concrete and Masonry Construction,
  Requirements for lift-slab operations

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.752, Steel Erection, Bolting, riveting,
  fitting-up, and plumbing-up

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.800, Underground Construction
• 1926.803, Underground Construction, Caissons,
  Cofferdams, and Compressed Air, Compressed air

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.850, Demolition, Preparatory operations
• 1926.859, Mechanical demolition

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.900, Blasting and the Use of Explosives
• 1926.1053, Ladders

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.1060, Stairways and Ladders, Training
  requirements
• 1926.1101, Asbestos

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.1101 App F, Work practices and engineering
  controls for Class I Asbestos Operations
  non-mandatory

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Competent person plays a role

• 1926.1127, Cadmium

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