Tips For Off-Site Employee Safety

Construction employers have made progress in managing individual employees and crews at multiemployer sites. Similarly, although mistakes still occur, we've got over 40 years experience complying with OSHA on the shop floor.

Unfortunately, neither setting represents the increasingly common work situation where small groups of employees or individual technicians work on customer sites far from their actual "supervision." Consider these challenges in managing these remote employees and crews:

• Employees operate from their homes or report to supervision at a different location from their reporting site.
• Employees rarely gather together for any type of meeting, let alone regular safety briefings.