Commercial & industrial construction
Here you'll find links to health and safety information and resources for work in commercial and industrial construction.
To reduce the potential for injury or disease, it's important to manage the risks and hazards in your workplace. See our resources to learn more about common risks and hazards in your industry, or follow the links to these related topics:
- Asbestos
- Bullying & harassment
- Cold stress
- Confined spaces
- Mobile cranes & boom trucks
- Electricity
- Excavations
- Falls from elevation
- Heat stress
- Ladders
- Lead
- Noise
- Paints & coatings
- Personal protective equipment
- Power tools
- Sprains & strains
- Scaffolds
- Silica
- Traffic, working in and around
- Welding gases & fumes
Resources
Safety headgear: Rights and responsibilities
In 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation requirements for safety headgear changed. Under the revised requirement, employers must take steps to eliminate or reduce head injury risks before...
Working Safely Around Electricity
This updated book explains the dangers of working around and on energized low-voltage equipment and near high-voltage conductors. It is written for supervisors and workers who work around and with electrical...
Top climbing a tower crane: Ensuring safe assembly and dismantling
Top climbing, a common way of assembling and dismantling a tower crane, is hazardous work that must only be performed by qualified workers.
The importance of tower crane safety was brought to...
Highlights
- Revised safety poster shows workers how to stand out safely around mobile equipment and vehicles Published on: April 24, 2023
- New online tool helps workers and employers manage risk by delivering a custom list of health and safety resources Published on: December 05, 2022
- New resources help you manage risks in your workplace Published on: April 14, 2022
- New resource to help employers reduce risk from mobile equipment and vehicles Published on: October 29, 2021
Featured Content
Toolbox meeting guides
A simple format for conducting effective toolbox talks on construction safety topics.
Recent incidents
Incident summaries to alert employers and workers to hazards in their industries.2023-11-28 22:29:45