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Elevated Work Platforms and Scaffolding : Job Site Safety Manual 1st Edition

by Matthew Burkart (Author), Michael McCann (Author), Daniel Paine (Author),

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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.

ISBN-10

0071414932
ISBN-13

978-0071414937
Edition

1st
Publisher

McGraw Hill
Publication date

March 24, 2004
Language

English
Dimensions

6 x 1.75 x 9 inches
Print length

600 pages
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Matthew J. Burkart, P.E., is president of his own consulting firm, Aegis Corporation. He has been involved in construction litigation and has served as an expert witness for OSHA and many of the country's most well-known law firms. A widely published author, he also serves on many committees governing the construction industry.

Daniel M. Paine has extensive knowledge in the field of fall protection. He has served as president of Sinoco, one of the major fall prevention device manufacturers and providers. Currently, he is a consultant, and president of Innovative Safety Products, Ltd. He serves on many committees and is highly regarded among his peers.

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Hundreds of illustrations!

ELEVATE CONSTRUCTION SITE SAFETY!

Nowhere is construction site safety more at a premium than on elevated work platforms and scaffoldings. Elevated Work Platforms: 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 get:

* 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 Platforms: 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
Ladders

About the Author

Matthew J. Burkart, P.E., is president of his own consulting firm, Aegis Corporation. He has been involved in construction litigation and has served as an expert witness for OSHA and many of the country's most well-known law firms. A widely published author, he also serves on many committees governing the construction industry.

Daniel M. Paine has extensive knowledge in the field of fall protection. He has served as president of Sinoco, one of the major fall prevention device manufacturers and providers. Currently, he is a consultant, and president of Innovative Safety Products, Ltd. He serves on many committees and is highly regarded among his peers.

Dr. Michael McCann is Director of Safety and Ergonomics at the Center to Protect Workers’ Rights, the research arm of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1972, became a certified industrial hygienist in 1979, and is authorized to conduct 10- and 30-hour OSHA courses as an OSHA Construction Outreach Trainer. Dr. McCann primarily does research on falls and electrocutions in construction, and has given presentations at the Construction Safety Council Annual Conference and other construction safety conferences, and at safety professional conferences. He has conducted training at OSHA 500 courses and helped develop and conduct training for construction workers at the World Trade Center. Dr. McCann was formerly NYS Health and Safety Director for the Communications Workers of America, Senior Associate Editor of the 4th edition of the International Labor Organization’s Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, and, from 1978 to 1996, Executive Director of the Center for Safety in the Arts.

Mr. Paine is the former President and CEO of The SINCO Group, Inc., serving in that position for 22 years from 1974 to 1996, during which time he successfully directed the design, manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of a broad spectrum of internationally recognized fall protection and other safety systems and equipment for the construction industry. He has worked with many industrial rack and conveyor manufacturers in industrial plants and warehouses throughout the United States and Canada. Mr. Paine additionally founded a Union Ironworker Construction Company, which operated throughout the United States, doing installation of fall protection products, specialty rigging, personnel and debris netting systems and other related construction activities.Additionally, Mr. Paine was a key player during the negotiated rule making Committee for the OSHA Steel Erection Standard SubPart R, and was a paid expert for OSHA during the SubPart R hearings in Washington, DC. Daniel Paine is a native of Connecticut and received his BA from Union College, Schenectady, New York. He currently resides in Avon, Connecticut.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ McGraw Hill; 1st edition (March 24, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 600 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0071414932
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0071414937
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.75 x 9 inches

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Terrible photos and drawings. One drawing so enlarged you could not even tell what the author was trying to convey. I have been in the safety profession since 1979, and I would definitely not purchase this book again.

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