HCSS Safety Week webinar from Jim Goss, who discusses what the industry has discovered in safety in the last 10 years and how to apply it to the next decade to become safer contractors.

1. Lessons Learned
Where are the real answers in preventing
Fatalities in the Construction Industry?

2. Construction Industry Today
• Construction makes up 4.5% of the workforce
• Construction has 21% of all workplace
fatalities
• 19% of all Workers Comp payments
• 58% of all OSHA inspections
• 90% of all ‘Safety Related” Criminal
Prosecutions

3. Where do you want your Safety Program
to be?
Safety Without Any Management Process
High Adversarial
Insurance Excessive Employee Much Statutory
Costs Losses Relations Litigation Ignorance
Symptoms
Line/Staff Blood Behaviors/ CommitteesQuick Fix
Conflict Cycles Conditions
Programs
Quiet Transparent Integrated Equal
WORLD CLASS
SWAMP
Average
Progressive

4. What is your “Safety Focus”?
• Hard Hats
• Safety Glasses
• Hi Viz Vests
• Other Safety Issues

5. Accident in Alabama
• 25 year old connecting an
Arrow Sign to a pick up to
move it down the road.
• A motorist thought that the
work zone was moving and
slammed into the back of
the pinning the employee.
• He was declared dead at
the scene.
• He was the owner’s son.

6. Accident In Oregon Yesterday
• 47 year old Foreman
overseeing removal of
“Jersey Barriers” from a
work zone.
• The employee was
pinned against the
equipment when the
bucket turned toward
the barrier.
• He died at the scene.

7. Fatality & Statistical Analysis
• 81% of all fatalities
are related to the
Focus Four Hazards
• 85% of all citations
and 90% of dollars
applied as fines are
related to the Focus
Four Hazards

8. What Are the
Focus Four Hazards?

9. Struck-By Hazards

10. Primary Causes of Struck-by
Fatalities
• Falling Objects
• Rigging Failure
• Loose or Shifting Materials
• Equipment tip-over or Malfunction
• Lack of Overhead Protection
• Vehicle and Equipment Strikes
• Backing Incidents
• Workers on Foot
• Flying Objects

11. 5
260
839
1431
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600
1926.950
1926.701
1926.102
1926.100
Criteria for PPE (Subpart B – Power Transmission and Distribution)
Concrete & Masonry
Top Struck-By Citations (FY 2013)
Eye and face protection
Head Protection
Citation statistics from Federal OSHA data for OSHA fiscal year 2013

12. Caught-in-Between Hazards

13. Primary Causes of
Caught-in-Between Fatalities
• Trench/Excavation Collapse
• Rotating Equipment
• Unguarded Parts
• Equipment Rollovers
• Equipment Maintenance

14. Top Caught-in-Between Citations
(FY 2013)
220
245
996
1482
0 500 1000 1500 2000
1926.602
1926.304
1926.652
1926.651
Excavations – Protective Systems
Wood Working Equipment
Material Handling Equipment
Excavations - General Requirements
Citation statistics from Federal OSHA data for OSHA fiscal year 2013

15. Fall Hazards

16. Primary Causes of Fall-Related
Fatalities
• Unprotected sides, edges and holes
• Improperly constructed
walking/working surfaces
• Improper use of access equipment
• Failure to properly use PFAS
• Slips and Trips (housekeeping)

17. Top Fall Protection Citations (FY
2013)
1689
1715
2409
5642
7970
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000
1926.453
1926.503
1926.1053
1926.501
1926.451
Fall protection training
Fall Protection Scope
Ladders
Aerial Work Platforms
Scaffolding General
Citation statistics from Federal OSHA data for OSHA fiscal year 2014

18. Electrical Hazards

19. Primary Causes of Electrocution
Fatalities
• Contact with Overhead Power lines
• Contact with Live Circuits in Panels
• Poorly Maintained Cords and Tools
• Lightning Strikes

20. Top Electrical Citations (FY 2013)
343
647
1022
1109
0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200
1926.416
1926.403
1926.405
1926.404
Elec. Wiring Methods, Components and Equipment, General Use
Electrical, General Requirements
Electrical, Safety-Related Work Practices, General Requirements
Electrical, Wiring Design and Protection
Citation statistics from Federal OSHA data for OSHA fiscal year 2014

21. Struck By
30%
All Others
16%
Electrical
10%
Caught in
Between 9%
Fall 35%
Fatality Data 2008 - 2012
5974 Total Fatalities
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes Pedestrians
in Workzones
Includes all
transportation events

22. Top 11 Focus Four Citations (FY 2013)
for OSHA fiscal year 2008

23. Fatality & Statistical Analysis
• 81% of all fatalities
are related to the
Focus Four Hazards
• 85% of all citations
and 90% of dollars
applied as fines are
related to the Focus
Four Hazards

24. What Have We Learned?
• Our industry is changing
• The “Safety Bar” has been raised
• We have a moral and business obligation to
keep our employees and subcontractors safe
• We have to learn from past mistakes and
never let them be repeated
• We hurt and kill to many of our employees
every year.

25. Nine Zero Accident Best Practices
Demonstrated management commitment
Staffing for safety
Safety planning
Safety training and education
Worker participation and involvement
Subcontractor management
Recognition and rewards
Accident/Incident reporting and investigations
Drug and alcohol testing

26. Safety Program Focus
• Planning
• Training
• Inspection
• Oversight
• Lessons learned
• Re-evaluate

27. Where do you want your Safety Program
to be?
Safety Without Any Management Process
High Adversarial
Insurance Excessive Employee Much Statutory
Costs Losses Relations Litigation Ignorance
Symptoms
Line/Staff Blood Behaviors/ CommitteesQuick Fix
Conflict Cycles Conditions
Programs
Quiet Transparent Integrated Equal
WORLD CLASS
SWAMP
Average
Progressive

28. Even if you’re on the right
track, you’ll get run over
if you just sit there.
Will Rogers