Thursday, January 19, 2012

Construction Falls: What’s the Cost to Employers?


OSHA’s web page on fall protection in residential construction has recently been updated with new presentations, compliance tools and other resources, including a PowerPoint presentation, Workers’ Compensation Costs of Falls in Construction. According to OSHA, the presentation demonstrates the heavy financial cost that results from construction falls.

The page also includes compliance tools for residential construction, such as fact sheets on reducing falls, sample fall protection plan and guidance document on fall protection, as well as a link to the OSHA Fall Protection Standard.