OSHA Issues COVID-19 Guidance For The Construction Workforce

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an alert listing safety tips (guidance) employers can follow to help protect construction workers from exposure to the coronavirus.

Measures that can help protect employees working in construction include:

• Encouraging workers to stay home if they are sick;
• Allowing workers to wear masks over their nose and mouth to prevent them from spreading the virus;
• Continue to use other normal control measures, including personal protective equipment (PPE), necessary to protect workers from other job hazards associated with construction activities;
• Advising workers to avoid physical contact with others and directing employees/contractors/visitors to increase personal space to at least six feet, where possible. Where work trailers are used, all workers should maintain social distancing while inside the trailers;