STREET AND ROAD  CONTRACTORS

For Employees do you:

• Enforce the use of respirators, hearing protection , safety shoes, hard hats, and eye protection?
• Train employees (including seasonal) in traffic control and equipment operation?
• Provide bright, reflective and conspicuous clothing for flagmen?
• Supply adequate amounts of clearly labeled drinking water?

For Pre-Job do you:

• Consult utilities before digging to locate pipes and lines?  Pre-mark all utility lines?
• Conduct pre- and post-excavation topographical reviews for drainage conditions?
• Perform pre-construction surveys?  Use only licensed blasters?

For Operations do you:

• Barricade all excavations?  Fence quarries?  Cover or guard ditches?
• Arrange site for easy access/safe maneuvering for vehicles, equipment and workers?
• Control dust by periodic watering?
• Use barricades/flag people/warning signs to help protect pedestrian/vehicular traffic?
• Remove dirt and debris from streets/sidewalks to help prevent public injury?
• Regularly test asphalt mix for conformance to specifications?
• Take safety precautions for underground power lines?
• Slop stockpiles of aggregate to help prevent sliding?  Wet aggregate to limit dust?
• Test noise levels to ensure requirements are met?
• Store flammable liquids in fire safe containers?
• Use fire resistive tarpaulins to control heat/material loss during transport of asphalt?
• Adequately vent shop area to help remove dusts/fumes/gases?
• Use signalers when dump trucks are discharging their loads?
• Maintain adequate spacing/properly vent tanks storing flammable/combustible liquids?
• Use DOT approved liquid petroleum gas systems?
• Advise the fire department of chemicals, combustibles, and blasting materials?
• Keep pavers/distributors attended?  Provide distributors with a 500 degree thermometer?
• Cut or remove weeds and brush in close proximity?
• Enforce "No Smoking" rules and control sources of ignition near combustibles?

For Equipment do you:

• Equip bulldozers and loaders with rollover protection/overhead canopies?
• Provide equipment with automatic audible back up alarms?
• Equip rollers with a swivel seat/extra seat facing backward, a guard and handrail?
• Ground portable electric power generators over 5 KW?
• Vent fuel-powered generating equipment into open air?
• Require proper loading securing, unloading techniques?
• Require your equipment to carry appropriate vehicle markings?