Part 1926 — Safety and Health Regulations for Construction
Subpart A — General
- § 1926.1— Purpose and scope.
- § 1926.2— Variances from safety and health standards.
- § 1926.3— Inspections—right of entry.
- § 1926.4— Rules of practice for administrative adjudications for enforcement of safety and health standards.
- § 1926.5— OMB control numbers under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
- § 1926.6— Incorporation by reference.
Subpart B — General Interpretations
- § 1926.10— Scope of subpart.
- § 1926.11— Coverage under section 103 of the act distinguished.
- § 1926.12— Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950.
- § 1926.13— Interpretation of statutory terms.
- § 1926.14— Federal contract for “mixed” types of performance.
- § 1926.15— Relationship to the Service Contract Act; Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.
- § 1926.16— Rules of construction.
Subpart C — General Safety and Health Provisions
- § 1926.20— General safety and health provisions.
- § 1926.21— Safety training and education.
- § 1926.23— First aid and medical attention.
- § 1926.24— Fire protection and prevention.
- § 1926.25— Housekeeping.
- § 1926.26— Illumination.
- § 1926.27— Sanitation.
- § 1926.28— Personal protective equipment.
- § 1926.29— Acceptable certifications.
- § 1926.30— Shipbuilding and ship repairing.
- § 1926.32— Definitions.
- § 1926.34— Means of egress.
- § 1926.35— Employee emergency action plans.
Subpart D — Occupational Health and Environmental Controls
- § 1926.50— Medical services and first aid.
- § 1926.51— Sanitation.
- § 1926.52— Occupational noise exposure.
- § 1926.53— Ionizing radiation.
- § 1926.54— Nonionizing radiation.
- § 1926.55— Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists.
- § 1926.56— Illumination.
- § 1926.57— Ventilation.
- § 1926.58— COVID-19.
- § 1926.60— Methylenedianiline.
- § 1926.62— Lead.
- § 1926.64— Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals.
- § 1926.65— Hazardous waste operations and emergency response.
- § 1926.66— Criteria for design and construction of spray booths.
Subpart E — Personal Protective and Life Saving Equipment
- § 1926.95— Criteria for personal protective equipment.
- § 1926.96— Occupational foot protection.
- § 1926.97— Electrical protective equipment.
- § 1926.100— Head protection.
- § 1926.101— Hearing protection.
- § 1926.102— Eye and face protection.
- § 1926.104— Safety belts, lifelines, and lanyards.
- § 1926.105— Safety nets.
- § 1926.106— Working over or near water.
- § 1926.107— Definitions applicable to this subpart.
Subpart F — Fire Protection and Prevention
Subpart G — Signs, Signals, and Barricades
Subpart H — Materials Handling, Storage, Use, and Disposal
Subpart I — Tools—Hand and Power
Subpart J — Welding and Cutting
Subpart K — Electrical
- § 1926.400— Introduction.
- § 1926.402— Applicability.
- § 1926.403— General requirements.
- § 1926.404— Wiring design and protection.
- § 1926.405— Wiring methods, components, and equipment for general use.
- § 1926.406— Specific purpose equipment and installations.
- § 1926.407— Hazardous (classified) locations.
- § 1926.408— Special systems.
- § 1926.416— General requirements.
- § 1926.417— Lockout and tagging of circuits.
- § 1926.431— Maintenance of equipment.
- § 1926.432— Environmental deterioration of equipment.
- § 1926.441— Batteries and battery charging.
- § 1926.449— Definitions applicable to this subpart.
Subpart L — Scaffolds
Subpart M — Fall Protection
Subpart N — Helicopters, Hoists, Elevators, and Conveyors
Subpart O — Motor Vehicles, Mechanized Equipment, and Marine Operations
Subpart P — Excavations
Subpart Q — Concrete and Masonry Construction
- § 1926.700— Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.
- § 1926.701— General requirements.
- § 1926.702— Requirements for equipment and tools.
- § 1926.703— Requirements for cast-in-place concrete.
- § 1926.704— Requirements for precast concrete.
- § 1926.705— Requirements for lift-slab construction operations.
- § 1926.706— Requirements for masonry construction.
Subpart R — Steel Erection
- § 1926.750— Scope.
- § 1926.751— Definitions.
- § 1926.752— Site layout, site-specific erection plan and construction sequence.
- § 1926.753— Hoisting and rigging.
- § 1926.754— Structural steel assembly.
- § 1926.755— Column anchorage.
- § 1926.756— Beams and columns.
- § 1926.757— Open web steel joists.
- § 1926.758— Systems-engineered metal buildings.
- § 1926.759— Falling object protection.
- § 1926.760— Fall protection.
- § 1926.761— Training.
Subpart S — Underground Construction, Caissons, Cofferdams and Compressed Air
Subpart T — Demolition
- § 1926.850— Preparatory operations.
- § 1926.851— Stairs, passageways, and ladders.
- § 1926.852— Chutes.
- § 1926.853— Removal of materials through floor openings.
- § 1926.854— Removal of walls, masonry sections, and chimneys.
- § 1926.855— Manual removal of floors.
- § 1926.856— Removal of walls, floors, and material with equipment.
- § 1926.857— Storage.
- § 1926.858— Removal of steel construction.
- § 1926.859— Mechanical demolition.
- § 1926.860— Selective demolition by explosives.
Subpart U — Blasting and the Use of Explosives
- § 1926.900— General provisions.
- § 1926.901— Blaster qualifications.
- § 1926.902— Surface transportation of explosives.
- § 1926.903— Underground transportation of explosives.
- § 1926.904— Storage of explosives and blasting agents.
- § 1926.905— Loading of explosives or blasting agents.
- § 1926.906— Initiation of explosive charges—electric blasting.
- § 1926.907— Use of safety fuse.
- § 1926.908— Use of detonating cord.
- § 1926.909— Firing the blast.
- § 1926.910— Inspection after blasting.
- § 1926.911— Misfires.
- § 1926.912— Underwater blasting.
- § 1926.913— Blasting in excavation work under compressed air.
- § 1926.914— Definitions applicable to this subpart.
Subpart V — Electric Power Transmission and Distribution
- § 1926.950— General.
- § 1926.951— Medical services and first aid.
- § 1926.952— Job briefing.
- § 1926.953— Enclosed spaces.
- § 1926.954— Personal protective equipment.
- § 1926.955— Portable ladders and platforms.
- § 1926.956— Hand and portable power equipment.
- § 1926.957— Live-line tools.
- § 1926.958— Materials handling and storage.
- § 1926.959— Mechanical equipment.
- § 1926.960— Working on or near exposed energized parts.
- § 1926.961— Deenergizing lines and equipment for employee protection.
- § 1926.962— Grounding for the protection of employees.
- § 1926.963— Testing and test facilities.
- § 1926.964— Overhead lines and live-line barehand work.
- § 1926.965— Underground electrical installations.
- § 1926.966— Substations.
- § 1926.967— Special conditions.
- § 1926.968— Definitions.
Subpart W — Rollover Protective Structures; Overhead Protection
- § 1926.1000— Scope.
- § 1926.1001— Minimum performance criteria for rollover protective structures for designated scrapers, loaders, dozers, graders, crawler tractors, compactors, and rubber-tired skid steer equipment.
- § 1926.1002— Protective frames (roll-over protective structures, known as ROPS) for wheel-type agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.
- § 1926.1003— Overhead protection for operators of agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.
Subpart X — Stairways and Ladders
Subpart Z — Toxic and Hazardous Substances
Subpart AA — Confined Spaces in Construction
- § 1926.1201— Scope.
- § 1926.1202— Definitions.
- § 1926.1203— General requirements.
- § 1926.1204— Permit-required confined space program.
- § 1926.1205— Permitting process.
- § 1926.1206— Entry permit.
- § 1926.1207— Training.
- § 1926.1208— Duties of authorized entrants.
- § 1926.1209— Duties of attendants.
- § 1926.1210— Duties of entry supervisors.
- § 1926.1211— Rescue and emergency services.
- § 1926.1212— Employee participation.
- § 1926.1213— Provision of documents to Secretary.
Subpart CC — Cranes and Derricks in Construction
- § 1926.1400— Scope.
- § 1926.1401— Definitions.
- § 1926.1402— Ground conditions.
- § 1926.1403— Assembly/Disassembly—selection of manufacturer or employer procedures.
- § 1926.1404— Assembly/Disassembly—general requirements (applies to all assembly and disassembly operations).
- § 1926.1405— Disassembly—additional requirements for dismantling of booms and jibs (applies to both the use of manufacturer procedures and employer procedures).
- § 1926.1406— Assembly/Disassembly—employer procedures—general requirements.
- § 1926.1407— Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—assembly and disassembly.
- § 1926.1408— Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—equipment operations.
- § 1926.1409— Power line safety (over 350 kV).
- § 1926.1410— Power line safety (all voltages)—equipment operations closer than the Table A zone.
- § 1926.1411— Power line safety—while traveling under or near power lines with no load.
- § 1926.1412— Inspections.
- § 1926.1413— Wire rope—inspection.
- § 1926.1414— Wire rope—selection and installation criteria.
- § 1926.1415— Safety devices.
- § 1926.1416— Operational aids.
- § 1926.1417— Operation.
- § 1926.1418— Authority to stop operation.
- § 1926.1419— Signals—general requirements.
- § 1926.1420— Signals—radio, telephone or other electronic transmission of signals.
- § 1926.1421— Signals—voice signals—additional requirements.
- § 1926.1422— Signals—hand signal chart.
- § 1926.1423— Fall protection.
- § 1926.1424— Work area control.
- § 1926.1425— Keeping clear of the load.
- § 1926.1426— Free fall and controlled load lowering.
- § 1926.1427— Operator training, certification, and evaluation.
- § 1926.1428— Signal person qualifications.
- § 1926.1429— Qualifications of maintenance & repair employees.
- § 1926.1430— Training.
- § 1926.1431— Hoisting personnel.
- § 1926.1432— Multiple-crane/derrick lifts—supplemental requirements.
- § 1926.1433— Design, construction and testing.
- § 1926.1434— Equipment modifications.
- § 1926.1435— Tower cranes.
- § 1926.1436— Derricks.
- § 1926.1437— Floating cranes/derricks and land cranes/derricks on barges.
- § 1926.1438— Overhead & gantry cranes.
- § 1926.1439— Dedicated pile drivers.
- § 1926.1440— Sideboom cranes.
- § 1926.1441— Equipment with a rated hoisting/lifting capacity of 2,000 pounds or less.
- § 1926.1442— Railroad roadway maintenance machines.
- § 1926.1443— Severability.