General Safety

         

• Trenching and Shoring - A program for reviewing trenching and excavations to ensure personnel will not be at risk of injury or death because of cave-ins.
  • OSHA Guide to Daily Inspections of Trenches and Excavation
• Construction Safety - Ensuring that appropriate safety regulations are followed during construction and renovation projects.
  • Duke Contractor Safety Guidebook
  • OSHA Construction Safety eTool
  • OSHA Construction Hazards Quick Card (English & Spanish)
  • OSHA Construction Personal Protective Equipment Quick Card
• Machine Guarding - Review to ensure all potentially hazardous mechanical equipment has adequate guarding to prevent personnel injuries.
  • OSHA Checklist for Abrasive Wheel Equipment Grinders
  • OSHA Amputation Fact Sheet
  • OSHA Machine Guarding eTool
• Electrical Safety - A program focused on minimizing electrical hazards. Read about  Electrical Safety in the Safety Manual.
  • Electrical Safety Policy Checklist
  • Assured Equipment Ground Conductor Program Log
  • NIOSH Electrical Safety Student Manual
  • NIOSH Electrical Safety for Engineers Module
  • OSHA's Construction Safety eTool: Electrical Incidents
  • OSHA Electrical Safety Quick Card: English | Spanish
• Ladder Safety - A program for training and providing information to employees with the goal of eliminating ladder related injuries and requiring the safe use of all ladder types.
  • Working Safely with Stepladders at Duke
  • OSHA Ladder Safety eTool
  • OSHA Portable Ladder Safety Quick Card