Safety Manuals

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A Comprehensive Guide to Contractor
Safety & Health in the Construction
Industry - Order #SM400
This publication can help your firm establish a comprehensive safety and health program. Key safety and health program elements are discussed, including accident facts, accident investigation, regulatory compliance, substance abuse and workplace safety, safety program policies, and personnel responsibilities. Additional topics include self inspections and audits, claims management, emergencies, personal protective equipment, recordkeeping, measuring program effectiveness, and more. The manual also provides a sample safety and health program.

ABC Tool Box Talks - Order #SM401
ABC has developed a series of safety "toolbox talks" to use on the jobsite. The 69 individual "talks," available in both English and Spanish, focus on a variety of topics, such as accident investigations, demolition, horseplay on the jobsite, working with lead, working on scaffolds and working under severe weather conditions. Talks are provided on CD-ROM and in reprinted form.

CFR 29 Part 1926 - Order #SM402
The Occupational Safety & Health Standards for the Construction Industry. This manual is a smaller paperback version of the Construction Regulatory Guide. A must for all construction companies!

Construction Regulatory Guide - Order #SM403
Construction Regulatory Guide provides all of OHSA’s word-for-word Part 1926 regulations, and applicable 1910 regulations, in one handy resource. The guide is indexed and tab-divided by subject, not regulation number, to help you quickly locate particular regulatory areas.

Construction Safety & Health
Compliance Manual - Order #SM404
Construction Safety & Health Compliance Manual gives you how-to-comply help for OSHA’s Part 1926 construction regulations. You will also receive a handy self-audit checklist to help you identify work hazards; practical safety guidelines and fact sheets to help you reduce the chance of accidents and injuries; and an explanation of OSHA’s Focused Inspection Program to help you understand how you can prepare for an inspection.

Construction Site Safety Program - Order #SM405
The program tells how to manage a jobsite safety program and supplies training aids. It includes Tool Box Talks; Safety Meeting Reports; OSHA Digest; Accident Reports.
Replacement Components:
o OSHA Digest
o Emergency First Aid Info
o Pocket Guide to Construction Site Safety
o Tool Box Talks Booklet

J.J. Keller’s Construction
Tool Box Talks - Order #SM406
Use J.J. Keller’s Construction Toolbox Talks for ongoing training programs, refresher training sessions, on-the-spot training, and pre-shift overviews. This manual contains over 100 toolbox talks addressing such topics as: back safety, confined spaces, excavations, fall protection, hazcom, lockout/tagout, PPE, scaffolding, welding and more. Each toolbox talk includes an overview of the topic with a brief training agenda and training tips, a handout to photocopy and distribute to employees, and a sign-off sheet to document training.

Model Safety Program for the
Construction Industry - Order #SM407
This is a "how-to" manual for designing or supplementing a company safety program. It provides key elements for an effective program.

MSHA Compliance Manual for
Surface Operations - Order #SM408
Help simplify compliance with MSHA regulations. The MSHA Compliance Manual for Surface Operations helps explain and clarify important MSHA surface mining requirements. You’ll find how-to-comply help for areas such as: training; accidents, injuries, and illness; the Quarterly Employment & Coal Production Report; first aid; and metal/non-metal mines safety and health standards. Contains real-world applications to help you understand how the requirements affect your operations.

Official OSHA Construction Safety
Handbook - Order #SM409
The Official OSHA Construction Safety Handbook gives you an easy and affordable way to provide must-have training, administer tests, and document that the training occured. It contains 19 construction safety topics, including four new topics: hand protection; ladders and stairways; and slips, trips and falls. Each topic is covered in 8 to 14 pages with the to-the-point information your employees can easily understand. And, the handbook includes hundreds of full-color illustrations to help emphaxize important points. Also includes end-of-the-chapter quizzes and a removable receipt page to help make training documentation a snap.

OSHA Crane Safety Handbook - Order #SM410
The OSHA Crane Safety Handbook can help you provide your employees with the basic crane safety rules. It contains essential safety guidelines and easy-to-understand explanations of key areas, including: crane inspection requirements; placards and warnings; Derricks; and load chart requirements.

OSHA Excavation Standard
Handbook - Order #SM411
By helping you train your employees on excavation safety issues, the OSHA Excavation Standard Handbook can help you reduce the chance of accidents and injuries. Use it to help explain the safety requirements of OSHA’s Excavation Standards to your employees. Covers classifying soil types, determining the best protective support system to use, and knowing the required performance criteria the chosen system must meet.

Recordkeeping Guidelines for Occupational Injuries and Illnesses - Order #SM412
This 82-page booklet contains guidelines for keeping the occupational injury and illness records required by OSHA. This is an OSHA reprint.

Safety Workbook - Order #SM413
As the demand for construction increases, the awarness of safety must match this demand. ABC’s Safety Workbook is designed to assist contractors in their efforts to educate the men and women who are building American . . . safely! The workbook will challenge individuals to think about OSHA standards and how they apply to the jobsite and to their every day lives. The Safety Workbook is a tool used for safety awareness and works closely with the CFR 29 Part 1926 manual. It includes 36 different modules with a number of questions to be answered in each module.

The 100 Most Frequently
Cited OSHA Standards - Order #SM414
This book was developed by OSHA’s office of Construction and Engineering. It is intended to assist contractors in identifying and correcting hazards related to the most frequently cited standards found on construction sites throughout the U.S. The book also examines, in detail, the top 25 construction physical hazards, including guardrails, head protection, ground fault protection, trenching and excavating, protective systems, personal protective equipment, housekeeping, stair rails, rebar guarding, scaffolds, eye and face protection, and more.