• Standards are the legal requirements that define the minimum protections employers must provide to employees and the mechanisms used to enforce these protections.
  • Recordkeeping Final Rule: The final and proposed rules, the 300 and 301 forms, and topics for comment.
  • Steel Erection Final Rule: The effective dates, final, and proposed rule.
    • Steel Erection Compliance Directive
    • Steel Erection Presentation: An overview of the Steel Erection Standard.
• OSHA Standard Interpretation and Compliance Letters are OSHA responses to specific questions relating to the Agency's interpretation of a standard.
• Directives are the documents that provide OSHA's operating procedures and assure consistency within the agency.
  • Tower, Communication. OSHA's interim inspection procedures during communication tower construction activities.

Specific Topics

• Construction Focused Inspection. Recognizes the efforts of responsible contractors who have implemented effective safety and health programs, and encourages other contractors to adopt similar programs.
  • Construction Focused Inspection Summary.
• Construction Inspection Scheduling. This is an overview of the OSHA construction inspection scheduling system.
• Meetings.
• Multimedia programs. Electronic videos and PowerPoint presentations addressing construction and other topics.
• Residential Construction, Interim Fall Protection OSHA Instruction.
• Revised Multi-Employer Citation Policy. The purpose of this Directive is to clarify the agency's multi-employer citation policy.
• Silica Questions and Answers. Questions and Answers on the Respiratory Protection Standard with a Spanish translation of the Medical Evaluation Questionnaire
  • Special Emphasis Program (SEP) for SILICOSIS, May 2, 1996
• Construction Topics, OSHA Technical Links pages related to Construction.

Statistics and Data

• OSHA Statistics and Data page. Several different types of searches are available. Note: For some searches the letter "C" may be used in the SIC box to search for the Standard Industrial Classification Codes for construction, 1500 to 1799.