No. As with any government standard, they are the MINIMUM legal standards that must be met. In the Construction standard, SOME workers may LEGALLY be exposed to falls of more than 20 feet. While it is legal, and you are complying with a standard, a fall of that distance is almost guaranteed to produce serious injury or death. OSHA has very few standards that deal with temporary traffic control- yet that is a major source of injury for people performing highway construction. In a like manner, driving the speed limit is no guarantee you will not have a vehicle accident.
The employer is responsible for complying with OSHA regulations, but an employer can hold an employee accountable for failure to follow directions or established procedures intended to ensure compliance.
OSHA is intended to prevent injuries and illnesses resulting from employment.
OSHA does not have a specific standard for the spacing of balusters.
The OSHA 300 is the "Log of work-related injuries and illnesses". This is the form that an employer would use to record all the employee injuries/illnesses as they occur throughout a year. The nature of the injury/illness is also recorded. There is no OSHA 400.
The log of occupational injuries and illnesses is now kept on OSHA Form 300, not form 200.
OSHA exist to ensure that businesses provide safe working environments for their employees. When a company deals with hazards, OSHA periodically conducts inspections to ensure they are compliant.
There is no Part 1972.353 in the OSHA regulations.
An OSHA standard is a regulation issued by OSHA, after proper notice and comment, that sets a minimum requirement in some area of practice or activity over which OSHA has authority. Such a standard establishes a minimum level of safety in the workplace acceptable to society at large.
We don't necessarily have to call them construction safety police but rather inspection agents or in the U.S., it is OSHA - workplace safety group. They ensure that the workplace follows all health and safety guidelines to ensure that there will be no injuries, accidents and fatalities.
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States that have OSHA approved State Plans have six months after the adoption of a new federal OSHA standard to adopt an equivalent or more stringent standard of their own.
The OSHA 300 is for recording both injuries and work-related . If it is neither an injury nor an illness, then it is of no interest to OSHA in terms of the 300 form