Caught-In or Struck-By: Which Course Do You Need?
These two hazards are the pair workers most often confuse, and eTraining sells a course for each plus a combined course covering all four.
- OSHA Focus Four: Caught-In or -Between Hazards. The page you are on. Crushing and compression hazards: cave-ins, machine guarding, lockout and pinning.
- OSHA Focus Four: Struck-By Hazards. The other half of the pair. Flying, falling, swinging and rolling objects, work zones and traffic control. View the OSHA Focus Four: Struck-By Hazards
- OSHA's Construction Focus Four. All four hazards in one 3-hour enrollment, with a 30-question final assessment. View the OSHA's Construction Focus Four
What Does OSHA Require Against Caught-In or -Between Hazards?
There is no single caught-in standard. The duties sit in the excavation, tool, demolition and equipment rules, and the course walks each one.
- Protect every trench. Each employee in an excavation must be protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system, unless the excavation is entirely in stable rock or is less than 5 feet deep and a competent person finds no cave-in potential (29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1)).
- Guard the moving parts. Belts, gears, shafts, pulleys, sprockets, spindles, drums, flywheels and chains must be guarded where employees can contact them (1926.300(b)(2)).
- Lock it out. Circuits and equipment must be locked out or tagged before work begins, and controls that are deactivated must be tagged (1926.417).
- Brace the walls. No wall section more than one story high may stand alone without lateral bracing during demolition unless it was designed to be self-supporting (1926.854(b)).
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