Power Tools on Site: Checks and the Register
A grinder without a guard and a drill with tape on the cable are the first things an inspector sees. What checks the regulations require for power tools.
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OSH Documents on Site
Key occupational safety and health documents for a PKD 43 construction firm: risk assessment (ORZ), safe-work instructions (IBWR), health and safety plan (BIOZ) and registers.
OSH Coordinator on Site: When It Is Required
On one site your bricklaying crew is working, next to them an electrical firm, and on the other side roofers from another subcontractor.
Noise and Vibration on Site: OSH Limits & Measures
A demolition-hammer operator works his eighth hour and by evening his ears are ringing. In five years' time it will turn out he can no longer hear high tones.
Hazardous Substances & Asbestos: Data Sheets
The crew is stripping an old asbestos-cement roof because the client wants a new one. Nobody has a mask, the sheets shatter into pieces, dust flies.
Cranes and UDT: Operator & Equipment Documents
The crane stands on the site, the operator in the cab, the first lift of a precast element. And in walks a UDT (Office of Technical Inspection) or PIP (Polish…
Occupational Risk Assessment (ORZ) on Site
The occupational risk assessment - ORZ (occupational risk assessment) for short - is the paper every OSH (occupational safety and health) inspection on a…
IBWR: Safe Work Instructions on a Site
Doing work at height, digging a trench or bringing a crane onto a developer's site? Without an IBWR (safe-work instructions) you go nowhere.
Scaffolding: Handover, Inspections, Documentation
The scaffolding stands against the facade, the crew waiting to climb up and plaster. The foreman gives the signal: "we're going up".
BIOZ Plan vs BIOZ Information: Which You Need
You drive onto a site, the main contractor waves papers around, and your head's spinning: "do I need this BIOZ plan or not?".
Workstation OSH Instructions for Construction
I'll tell you straight: one universal PDF headed "OSH Instruction" is, to the PIP inspector (the Polish Labour Inspectorate), not an instruction at all, just…
OSH Training Records: Initial, Job, Periodic
An inspector walks onto a construction site and the first thing they ask for is the folder with the OSH training.
PPE Allocation Table & Issue Register on Site
An inspector walks onto a site and the first thing they see is heads. The hard hat is either there or it isn't. The boots are either there or they aren't.
Machinery Documentation: DTR, Inspections & UDT
On a building site, it isn't just about the machine working. The inspector asks for paperwork.
Medical Examinations of Construction Workers
You're taking on a new lad for the site. He wants to start tomorrow. There's just one snag: without a valid medical certificate from an occupational health…