Title 29, Part 1926 — Safety and Health Regulations for Construction

Purpose and scope.

Variances from safety and health standards.

Inspections—right of entry.

Rules of practice for administrative adjudications for enforcement of safety and health standards.

OMB control numbers under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

Incorporation by reference.

Scope of subpart.

Coverage under section 103 of the act distinguished.

Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950.

Interpretation of statutory terms.

Federal contract for “mixed” types of performance.

Relationship to the Service Contract Act; Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.

Rules of construction.

General safety and health provisions.

Safety training and education.

Recording and reporting of injuries. [Reserved]

First aid and medical attention.

Fire protection and prevention.

Housekeeping.

Illumination.

Sanitation.

Personal protective equipment.

Acceptable certifications.

Shipbuilding and ship repairing.

Definitions.

Access to employee exposure and medical records.

Means of egress.

Employee emergency action plans.

Medical services and first aid.

Sanitation.

Occupational noise exposure.

Ionizing radiation.

Nonionizing radiation.

Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists.

Illumination.

Ventilation.

Covid-19.

Hazard communication.

Methylenedianiline.

Retention of DOT markings, placards and labels.

Lead.

Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals.

Hazardous waste operations and emergency response.

Criteria for design and construction of spray booths.

Criteria for personal protective equipment.

Occupational foot protection.

Electrical protective equipment.

[Reserved]

Head protection.

Hearing protection.

Eye and face protection.

Respiratory protection.

Safety belts, lifelines, and lanyards.

Safety nets.

Working over or near water.

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

Fire protection.

Fire prevention.

Flammable liquids.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LP-Gas).

Temporary heating devices.

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

Accident prevention signs and tags.

Signaling.

General requirements for storage.

Rigging equipment for material handling.

Disposal of waste materials.

General requirements.

Hand tools.

Power-operated hand tools.

Abrasive wheels and tools.

Woodworking tools.

Jacks—lever and ratchet, screw, and hydraulic.

Air receivers.

Mechanical power-transmission apparatus.

Gas welding and cutting.

Arc welding and cutting.

Fire prevention.

Ventilation and protection in welding, cutting, and heating.

Welding, cutting, and heating in way of preservative coatings.

Introduction.

[Reserved]

Applicability.

General requirements.

Wiring design and protection.

Wiring methods, components, and equipment for general use.

Specific purpose equipment and installations.

Hazardous (classified) locations.

Special systems.

§§ 1926.409-1926.415 [Reserved]

General requirements.

Lockout and tagging of circuits.

§§ 1926.418-1926.430 [Reserved]

Maintenance of equipment.

Environmental deterioration of equipment.

§§ 1926.433-1926.440 [Reserved]

Batteries and battery charging.

§§ 1926.442-1926.448 [Reserved]

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

Scope, application and definitions applicable to this subpart.

General requirements.

Additional requirements applicable to specific types of scaffolds.

Aerial lifts.

Training requirements.

Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.

Duty to have fall protection.

Fall protection systems criteria and practices.

Training requirements.

[Reserved]

Helicopters.

Material hoists, personnel hoists, and elevators.

Base-mounted drum hoists.

Overhead hoists.

Conveyors.

Equipment.

Motor vehicles.

Material handling equipment.

Pile driving equipment.

Site clearing.

Marine operations and equipment.

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.

Specific excavation requirements.

Requirements for protective systems.

Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.

General requirements.

Requirements for equipment and tools.

Requirements for cast-in-place concrete.

Requirements for precast concrete.

Requirements for lift-slab construction operations.

Requirements for masonry construction.

Scope.

Definitions.

Site layout, site-specific erection plan and construction sequence.

Hoisting and rigging.

Structural steel assembly.

Column anchorage.

Beams and columns.

Open web steel joists.

Systems-engineered metal buildings.

Falling object protection.

Fall protection.

Training.

Underground construction.

Caissons.

Cofferdams.

Compressed air.

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

Preparatory operations.

Stairs, passageways, and ladders.

Chutes.

Removal of materials through floor openings.

Removal of walls, masonry sections, and chimneys.

Manual removal of floors.

Removal of walls, floors, and material with equipment.

Storage.

Removal of steel construction.

Mechanical demolition.

Selective demolition by explosives.

General provisions.

Blaster qualifications.

Surface transportation of explosives.

Underground transportation of explosives.

Storage of explosives and blasting agents.

Loading of explosives or blasting agents.

Initiation of explosive charges—electric blasting.

Use of safety fuse.

Use of detonating cord.

Firing the blast.

Inspection after blasting.

Misfires.

Underwater blasting.

Blasting in excavation work under compressed air.

Definitions applicable to this subpart.

General.

Medical services and first aid.

Job briefing.

Enclosed spaces.

Personal protective equipment.

Portable ladders and platforms.

Hand and portable power equipment.

Live-line tools.

Materials handling and storage.

Mechanical equipment.

Working on or near exposed energized parts.

Deenergizing lines and equipment for employee protection.

Grounding for the protection of employees.

Testing and test facilities.

Overhead lines and live-line barehand work.

Underground electrical installations.

Substations.

Special conditions.

Definitions.

Scope.

Minimum performance criteria for rollover protective structures for designated scrapers, loaders, dozers, graders, crawler tractors, compactors, and rubber-tired skid steer equipment.

Protective frames (roll-over protective structures, known as ROPS) for wheel-type agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.

Overhead protection for operators of agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.

Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.

General requirements.

Stairways.

Ladders.

§§ 1926.1054-1926.1059 [Reserved]

Training requirements.

Scope and application.

Definitions.

Qualifications of dive team.

Safe practices manual.

Pre-dive procedures.

Procedures during dive.

Post-dive procedures.

SCUBA diving.

Surface-supplied air diving.

Mixed-gas diving.

Liveboating.

Equipment.

Recordkeeping requirements.

[Reserved]

Asbestos.

Coal tar pitch volatiles; interpretation of term.

13 carcinogens (4-Nitrobiphenyl, etc.).

alpha-Naphthylamine.

[Reserved]

Methyl chloromethyl ether.

3,3′-Dichlorobenzidiene (and its salts).

bis-Chloromethyl ether.

beta-Naphthylamine.

Benzidine.

4-Aminodiphenyl.

Ethyleneimine.

beta-Propiolactone.

2-Acetylaminofluorene.

4-Dimethylaminoazobenzene.

N-Nitrosodimethylamine.

Vinyl chloride.

Inorganic arsenic.

Beryllium.

Chromium (VI).

Cadmium.

Benzene.

[Reserved]

1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane.

Acrylonitrile.

Ethylene oxide.

Formaldehyde.

Methylene chloride.

Respirable crystalline silica.

[Reserved]

Scope.

Definitions.

General requirements.

Permit-required confined space program.

Permitting process.

Entry permit.

Training.

Duties of authorized entrants.

Duties of attendants.

Duties of entry supervisors.

Rescue and emergency services.

Employee participation.

Provision of documents to Secretary.

Scope.

Definitions.

Ground conditions.

Assembly/Disassembly—selection of manufacturer or employer procedures.

Assembly/Disassembly—general requirements (applies to all assembly and disassembly operations).

Disassembly—additional requirements for dismantling of booms and jibs (applies to both the use of manufacturer procedures and employer procedures).

Assembly/Disassembly—employer procedures—general requirements.

Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—assembly and disassembly.

Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—equipment operations.

Power line safety (over 350 kV).

Power line safety (all voltages)—equipment operations closer than the Table A zone.

Power line safety—while traveling under or near power lines with no load.

Inspections.

Wire rope—inspection.

Wire rope—selection and installation criteria.

Safety devices.

Operational aids.

Operation.

Authority to stop operation.

Signals—general requirements.

Signals—radio, telephone or other electronic transmission of signals.

Signals—voice signals—additional requirements.

Signals—hand signal chart.

Fall protection.

Work area control.

Keeping clear of the load.

Free fall and controlled load lowering.

Operator training, certification, and evaluation.

Signal person qualifications.

Qualifications of maintenance & repair employees.

Training.

Hoisting personnel.

Multiple-crane/derrick lifts—supplemental requirements.

Design, construction and testing.

Equipment modifications.

Tower cranes.

Derricks.

Floating cranes/derricks and land cranes/derricks on barges.

Overhead & gantry cranes.

Dedicated pile drivers.

Sideboom cranes.

Equipment with a rated hoisting/lifting capacity of 2,000 pounds or less.

Railroad roadway maintenance machines.

Severability.