Elevated Work Platforms and Scaffolding : Job Site Safety Manual

by Matthew J. Burkart, Michael McCann, Daniel Paine

This book contains hundreds of illustrations! You can elevate construction site safety! Nowhere is construction site safety more at a premium than on elevated work platforms and scaffoldings. "Elevated Work Job Site Safety Manual", demonstrates how to keep these areas as accident-free as possible. Written with authority by a trio of construction site safety experts, this heavily illustrated reference promotes safety through knowledge, correct equipment usage, and the careful application of construction regulations and standards.With a special emphasis on fall protection and collapse, you informative tip boxes throughout the book; erection, inspection, working-on, and disassembly requirements; inspection checklists; examples of malfunction and accidents; OSHA regulations and industry standards for specific equipment; and more! Perfect for architects, engineers, contractors, and attorneys, "Elevated Work Job Site Safety Manual" is the one volume you need to stay on top of this essential construction site safety issue! Featured inside supported scaffolds; suspended scaffolds; mobile scaffolds; aerial lifts and elevating & rotating platform scaffolds; stairways; and, ladders.

600 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 2004