Platner, Ph.D., CIH is Associate Director of the Center for Construction Research and Training, Center for the Protection of Workers’ Rights (CPWR). 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.cpwr.org
Unfortunately, unlike maritime or general industry, OSHA construction regulations do not have permit required confined space standards, and do not have lock-out requirements to assure that hazards are isolated. Our system of adding new OSHA regulations is essentially broken. Both these standards have been on the regulatory agenda for well over a decade.
