Title: Walking / Working Surfaces, New Standard for General Industry

Instructor: Joe Ornelas

OSHA has updated the Walking/Working Surfaces Standard in General Industry to be more consistent with Construction Standards, and this class will cover the basics with an emphasis on the changes.  Personal Fall Arrest Systems and Restrain Devices will be addressed as well as working from elevated work platforms. 

Slips, trips, and falls constitute the majority of general industry accidents. They cause 15% of all accidental deaths, and are second only to motor vehicles as a cause of fatalities. The OSHA standards for walking/working surfaces apply to all permanent places of employment, except where only domestic, mining, or agricultural work is performed.

Topics Covered:

1910 Subpart D, Walking-working surfaces

•  Definitions
•  General requirements
•  Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
•  Fixed industrial stairs
•  Portable wood ladders
•  Portable metal ladders
•  Fixed ladders
•  Safety requirements for scaffolding
•  Manually propelled mobile ladder stands and scaffolds (towers)
•  Other working surfaces

1910 Subpart F, Powered platforms, manlifts, and vehicle-mounted work platforms

• Powered platforms for building maintenance