Residential Construction

Recognize and mitigate safety hazards including hazardous materials, environmental hazards, and accident conditions at any type of construction site.

• 4.5.1 Maintaining a Healthy and Safe Environment
• • Take actions to ensure the safety of self and others, in accordance with established personal and jobsite safety practices
  • Anticipate and prevent work-related injuries and illnesses
  • Comply with federal, state, and local regulations, and company health and safety policies
  • Recognize common hazards and unsafe conditions that occur at work, their risks, and appropriate controls to address them
  • Maintain a sanitary and clutter-free work environment
  • Administer first aid or CPR if trained and summon assistance as needed
  • Properly handle and dispose of hazardous materials

• 4.5.2 Personal Safety
• • Engage in safety training
  • Select, inspect, and use personal protective equipment such as respiratory protection and fall protection equipment
  • Know effects of and how to deal with temperature extremes and weather conditions
  • Work safely in confined spaces or at heights
  • Recognize how workplace risks can affect one’s life and one’s family
  • Understand the legal rights of workers regarding workplace safety and protection from hazards
  • Contribute to discussion of safety concerns in the workplace, making suggestions, and reporting injuries, incidents, and hazards as appropriate

• 4.5.3 Safety Procedures
• • Follow organizational procedures and protocols for workplace emergencies, including safe evacuation, and emergency response
  • Understand shop and worksite safety, fire safety, electrical safety, and chemical safety
  • Follow ladder and scaffold safety procedures
  • Demonstrate knowledge of hazardous properties of materials such as radiation, toxicity, flammability, reactivity, corrosivity, and limits of fire resistance exposure
  • Complete accident reports in accordance with required standards; file reports with appropriate personnel
  • Use Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) information to manage, use, and dispose of hazardous materials