DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING POLICY CHANGES

 

 While at CPWR, led the effort to build and utilize workgroups to develop model specifications and guidance for best practices for lead, silica and mast climbers.

 

• Model lead specifications were created with input from state and federal health and transportation agencies, unions, contractors, and other organizations and were sent out in the 1990s by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) with a recommendation to the states that they be considered for use when writing job specifications for work in their states (view document)

• Developed by industry and government experts, model silica specifications were adopted by the Philadelphia school district in 2014 for use in their capital improvement projects and the OSHA Training Institute uses them for training industrial hygienists (view document)

• OSHA’s Directorate of Construction (2011) described the mast climber guidelines as an excellent resource and distributed them to their regional and area offices (view document)