Handbook of OSHA Construction Safety and Health

by Charles D. Reese and James Vernon Eidson

Book Overview

Although the construction industry employs only five percent of the nation's work force, it suffers 20 percent of the nation's occupational fatalities and 12 percent of all U.S. injuries. Because of this the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has consolidated their construction standards, compliance assistance, cooperative programs, and technical services to form the Directorate of Construction. Construction sites and operations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566702976
• ISBN13: 9781566702973
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 1032 Pages
• Weight: 4.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.4" x 10.3"