Construction Safety
No person may enter a permit-required confined space without a confined space entry permit. Entry into non-permitted confined spaces can be made as long as the special procedures for entry into that space are followed. Contractors are responsible for their employees during work in confined spaces.
This policy is meant to apply to all employees, contractors, inspectors, and all other persons entering an identified confined space at San Diego State University. Please contact EH&S for further information.
This written program outlines basic electrical safety requirements for San Diego State University campus employees, focusing specifically on qualified persons and employees who use electrical utilization equipment, electrical distribution equipment, or other equipment in their daily duties.
This program is intended to help ensure that all employees understand the hazards associated with electric energy and how to work safely around electrical hazards while protecting themselves and coworkers.
Excavation construction operations can expose employees to hazardous conditions, such as cave-ins, falls, falling loads, hazardous atmospheres, and incidents involving mobile equipment. This written program includes responsibilities, training requirements, operational procedures, and safe work practices related to work in excavations.
This program applies to anyone who conducts excavation construction operations at San Diego State University. The requirements in this program are in compliance with the California Code of Regulations Title 8, Section 1540, 1541, and 1541.1. The objective of this program is to enable employees to identify hazards and to establish procedures to prevent injury.
This program provides information about best practices, procedures, and training to prevent falls while working on elevated surfaces. The information included in this Fall Protection Program is in compliance with applicable California Code of Regulations and these are indicated in each relevant area throughout the document.
Fall protection includes primary fall protection or engineering controls used to prevent falls, such as guardrails and secondary fall protection, which refers to anchorages and all of the devices that a user attaches to the anchorage (i.e. lanyards, harnesses). This program includes requirements for both types of fall protection.
Hazardous energy can take various forms in the workplace, including electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and thermal energy sources, i.e.,springs under tension or compression, and chemical, water, gas, and steam energy sources. This program mandates that all hazardous energy sources capable of activating a machine be de-energized or blocked and locked prior to cleaning, servicing, maintenance, or adjustment operations.
This program contains the requirements for lockout/tagout, which involves isolating machines or equipment from energy sources to prevent injury. The objective is to control hazardous energy sources at SDSU in compliance with Federal and Cal/OSHA Requirements for the Control of Electrical and other hazardous energy sources.
Hot work includes activities that generate sparks, flames, molten slag, or hot material, which has the potential to cause fires or explosions. The procedures outlined in this program, including the hot work permit process, are designed to prevent the accidental ignition of combustible and flammable materials and injury from exposure to sparks, heat, and flames.
Anyone conducting hot work operations at San Diego State University shall comply with the requirements documented in this program based on the California Code of Regulations Title 8, Section 4848. Additionally, information contained in the National Fire Protection Association Standard for Fire Prevention During Welding, Cutting, and Other Hot Work and the American National Standards Institute Safety in Welding, Cutting, and Allied Processes is incorporated by reference into these requirements.
