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This course covers the following information:

Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments: Construction's Unique Environments

  • How to recognize conditions that increase the risk of slips, trips and falls on walking and working surfaces.
  • How good housekeeping and "guarding" can reduce these hazards.
  • The unique challenges of navigating walking and working surfaces in a construction environment.

Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments: Floors and Pathways

  • How clearly marked aisles and passageways can help to prevent accidents.
  • The hazards posed by openings in floors and walls, "catwalks" and open-sided platforms.
  • How railings and toeboards can be used to mitigate these hazards.

Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments: Stairs and Fixed Ladders

  • How unsafe behavior can cause accidents on stairways.
  • How uniformity, strength and "guarding" of stairways can reduce slip, trip and fall risks.
  • How personal fall protection can help to mitigate a fall from a fixed ladder.

Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments: Portable Ladders

  • How to properly inspect and set up a portable ladder.
  • The danger of using portable ladders near power lines or energized equipment.
  • How to use the "four-to-one ratio" to determine a safe and stable ladder set-up angle.

Walking and Working Surfaces in Construction Environments: Scaffolding

  • The hazards you can face when working on a scaffold.
  • How "guarding" and personal fall protection can be used to mitigate the effect of a fall from a scaffold.
  • Under what conditions you should not work on a scaffold.