Development of Draft Construction Safety Standards for Excavations. Volume 2

摘要

A record of an interim stage in the development of revisions to existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations governing excavations, trenching and shoring practices in the construction industry, Subpart P 29 CFR 1926, is presented. The National Bureau of Standards (NBS) prepared a working draft of recommended changes to the regulations based on previous NBS technical studies. Five regional industry workshops were held to discuss the proposed revisions. Included in the report is a copy of the recommended revisions, which were submitted to the workshops, and a record of industry's response in the form of suggestions, commentary and summaries of workshop activities.