NC Construction Emphasis Program

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NC Construction Emphasis Program

• Nancy Wooten
• Compliance East
• Division of Occupational Safety and Health

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NC Construction Emphasis Program

• Nancy Wooten
• Compliance East
• Division of Occupational Safety and Health

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Overview

• Strategy to reduce construction fatalities
• Focused inspections
• Progress toward goals

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Why Target Construction?

• FY 1998 32 construction fatalities
• FY 1998 44.5 of all occupational fatalities
  occurred in construction
• Construction accounted for almost half the total
  fatalities but employs only 6 of the workforce
  in the state!!!

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Why Target Construction?

• FY 2006 29 Construction Fatalities
• Struck-by 7
• Falls 14
• Electrocution 3
• Crushed-by 2
• Other 3

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Why Target Construction?

• FY 2006 29 Construction Fatalities
• SIC 1623 Water, Sewer, Pipeline 1
• SIC 1799 Misc, Special Trades 4
• SIC 1521 General Contractors-Single-Family 4
• SIC 1622 Heavy Construction Bridges, etc. 1
• SIC 1761 Roofing, Siding, Sheet Metal 3
• SIC 1771 Concrete Work 1
• SIC 1542 General Contractors-Nonresidential 2
• SIC 1629 Heavy Construction 1
• SIC 1731 Electrical Work 2
• SIC 1742 Plastering, Drywall, Acoustical 1
• SIC 1751 Carpentry Work 4
• SIC 1791 Structural Steel Erection 1
• SIC 1541 General Contractors Nonresidential 1
• SIC 1522 General Contractors Residential, other
  1
• SIC 1741 Masonry Stonework, Tile Plastering 2

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Strategic Plan

• Reduce the Construction Industry Fatality
  Incidence Rate Statewide 15 by FY 2008
• SIC codes have been used in prior years
• NAICS codes will be used in FY 2007

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Emphasis Program

• Counties With Highest Numbers of Fatalities
• Original Emphasis Counties
• Wake County
• Mecklenburg County
• Dare County
• Cabarrus County
• Rowan County
• Forsyth County
• Guilford County
• Iredell County

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Emphasis Program

• 15 Counties Added to Special Emphasis Program

Alamance County Brunswick County Buncombe
County Catawba County Craven County Cumberland
County Durham County Gaston County Henderson
County Johnston County New Hanover County Onslow
County Orange County Pitt County Union County
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Total State Emphasis Program

• 23 Current Emphasis Counties

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Strategy

• Education and Training
• Mobile Training Unit
• Spanish
• Consultation
• On-Site Assistance
• Compliance
• Focused Inspections

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Focused Inspections

• Attempted on All Programmed Construction
  Inspections
• Scope Limited to 4 Leading Causes of Construction
  Fatalities
• Inspection Initiated With the General Contractor

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Focused Inspection Qualifiers

• Project Coordination Among All On-site
  Contractors Which Includes
• Adequate and Effective Safety and Health
  Program/Plan
• Designated Competent Person Responsible for and
  Capable of Implementing the Program/Plan Site-wide

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Benefits

• Contractor Reduced Time Inspectors Are on Site
• Contractor Safer Job Site With or Without OSHNC
• Contractor Better Production, More Profit
• OSHNC Reduced Time on Good Job Sites
• OSHNC More Time and Resources to Devote to
  Sites That Need the Attention

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The Big Four

• Most Fatalities on Construction Sites Can Be
  Categorized Into Four Groups by Cause
• Falls
• Electrical
• Struck-by
• Caught In/Between
• Account for about 80
  of the deaths

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Standards Most Frequently Cited Serious in
Construction

• 1926.501(b)(13) Fall protection in residential
  construction
• 1926.20(b)(2) No frequent and regular inspections
  of the job site by a competent person
• 1926.102(a)(1) Eye and face protection
  requirements
• 1926.503(a)(1) Training program required for
  fall hazards
• 1926.100(a) Head protection required for head
  injury hazards
• 1926.501(b)(11) Fall protection required on
  steep roofs
• 1926.20(b)(1) Employer responsibilities for
  accident prevention programs
• 1926.501(b)(1) Unprotected sides and edges on
  walking/working surfaces
• 1926.1053(b)(1) Portable ladder used to access
  upper landing surface must extend three feet
  above landing
• 1926.21(b)(2) Employer required to provide
  instruction in recognition and avoidance of
  workplace hazards

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Fatalities Past Present

• 2000 (36 Fatalities)
• 2001 (27 Fatalities)
• 2002 (34 Fatalities)
• 2003 (27 Fatalities)
• 2004 (37 Fatalities)
• 2005 (23 Fatalities) 2007 (11 thru February)
• 2006 (29 Fatalities)

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Review

• Efforts Focused on Areas of Need to Reduce
  Construction Fatalities
• Focusing Inspections on Causes of Fatalities
• On the Way to Meeting Goal of 15 Reduction in
  Fatality Rate Statewide

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Odds and Ends

• Communication Towers
• NC first in the Nation
• Effective May 1, 2005

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Resources

• Toll-Free Phone Numbers
• 1-800-LABOR NC
• 1-800-NC LABOR
• Web Sites
• www.osha.gov
• www.nclabor.com