This standard establishes safety requirements pertaining to concrete construction and masonry work in construction. The requirements contained in this standard cover all on-site concrete construction and masonry work, including design, erection, operation and maintenance of aggregate processing plants, concrete mixing plants and conveyances. It also contains safety requirements pertinent to the specialty concrete operations of prestressing by pretensioning or post-tensioning, lift-slab construction, tilt-up construction and slipforms.

Table of Contents

Contents
1. General
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Interpretation
2. References
2.1 Referenced and Related Standards
2.2 Other References
3. Definitions
4. Site Safety
4.1 Fall Protection
4.2 Personal Protective Equipment
4.3 Design and Drawings
4.4 Project Safety Plan
4.5 Housekeeping
4.6 Access
4.7 Excavations
4.8 Rigging
4.9 Related Site Hazards
4.10 Training
4.11 Machine Guarding, Lockout/Tagout
5. Reinforcing Steel
5.1 General
5.2 Guying Support, Stability for Reinforcing Assemblies
5.3 Wire Mesh (Wire Fabric, Welded Wire Fabric)
5.4 Prohibited Uses of Reinforcing Steel
5.5 Non-Conforming Placement of Reinforcing Bars
6. Concrete, Cement and Related Chemical Handling
6.1 General
6.2 Bulk Cement Transfer Facilities
6.3 Storage Facilities
7. Concrete Placement
7.1 General
7.2 Plant and Equipment
7.3 Cutting, Grinding, Polishing and Abrasive Blasting
7.4 Concrete Placement
7.5 Patching, Finishing and Curing
7.6 Winter Protection
8. Vertical Shoring
8.1 General
8.2 Loads and Design
8.3 Field Practices
8.4 Removal
8.5 Tubular Welded Frame Shoring
8.6 Tube and Coupler Tower Shoring
8.7 Single Post Shores
9. Formwork
9.1 General
9.2 Loads
9.3 Formwork Design
9.4 Placing and Removal of Forms
9.5 Vertical Slipforms
9.6 Flying Deck Forms
9.7 Horizontal Shoring Beams
10. Prestressed and Post-Tensioning Concrete
10.1 General
10.2 Pretensioning and Post-Tensioning
10.3 Post-Tensioning
10.4 Tendons
10.5 Fitting
10.6 Jacking
11. Precast Concrete
11.1 General
11.2 Storage
11.3 Handling and Erection
11.4 Temporary Support and Bracing
11.5 Falling Hazard
12. Lift-Slab Operations
12.1 General
12.2 Designing and Planning
12.3 Jacking Equipment
12.4 Uniform Lifting
12.5 Falling Hazard
12.6 Load Transfer
13. Masonry Construction
13.1 General
13.2 Handling and Storage of Masonry Materials
13.3 Masonry Saws
13.4 Masonry Scaffolds
13.5 Shoring and Bracing
13.6 Limited Access Zones 

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