# Presentation: 487606

## The New Steel Erection Rule: 

**Highlights**

## Steel Erection Final Rule

- Published January 18, 2001
- Implemented January 18, 2002
- Includes exceptions for some provisions

## Scope

- Covers all employers engaged in steel erection activities
- Contains two lists of activities:
- _Primary list_:  All are covered (connecting, bracing, guying...)
- _Ancillary list_:  Covered only “when they occur during and are a part of steel erection activities” (sealing, caulking, etc...)

- 1926.750(b)

## Scope (cont’d)

- Does not apply to:
- Electrical transmission towers
- Communication and broadcast towers
- Tanks

**1926.750(a)**

## Steel Erection Decision Tree

## Key Provisions of the Rule 

- Site layout
- Hoisting and rigging
- Structural steel stability requirements
- Column anchorage
- Beams and columns
- Open web steel joists
- Structural steel assembly

## Key Provisions of the Rule (cont’d)

- Systems-engineered metal buildings
- Falling object protection
- Fall protection
- Worker training

## Site Layout 

- Adequate layout area
- Adequate access roads

**1926.752(c)**

## Hoisting and Rigging

- Provides additional crane safety for steel erection
- Minimizes employee exposure to overhead loads through pre-planning and work practice requirements

**1926.753**

## Hoisting and Rigging (cont’d)

- Prescribes proper procedures for multiple lifts (Christmas-treeing)

**1926.753(e)**

## Column Anchorage

- Minimum 4 anchor bolts per column
- Written notification of proper  curing of concrete in footings, piers, walls for steel columns
- Written notification of adequacy of anchor bolts modified/repaired in the field

**1926.752(a)**
**1926.755**

## Beams and Columns

- Two bolts per connection before releasing hoisting line
- Safe procedures for making double connections at columns

**1926.756**

## Open Web Steel Joists

- Minimize the risk of collapse of lightweight steel joists by:
- Specifying erection bridging and method of attachment
- Requiring erection bridging to be anchored to terminus point
- Specifying method of placing loads on steel joists

**1926.757**

## Structural Steel Assembly

- Specific work practices:
- Hoisting deck bundles

**1926.754**

## Structural Steel Assembly (cont’d)

- Minimizing fall hazards:
- Trip hazards
- Interior holes/openings
- Slip hazards

**1926.754**

**Shear Connectors**

## Systems-Engineered Metal Buildings

- Requirements to minimize the risk of collapse in the erection of these specialized structures that account for a major portion of steel erection in this country

**1926.758**

## Falling Object Protection

- Provisions that address hazards of falling objects in steel erection

**1926.759**

**Note:**  Does not apply to materials
-             being hoisted

## Fall Protection 

- _Above 30 feet/2 stories_:  All workers must be protected, including connectors and deckers
- _Between 15 and 30 feet/2 stories_:  Workers must be protected EXCEPT:
- Connectors
- Deckers working in controlled decking zone (CDZ)

**1926.760**

## Fall Protection (cont’d)

- Connectors between 15 and 30 feet/2 stories
- All equipment necessary to be capable of being used to be tied off (or safety nets) must be in place
- Not required to tie off

- 1926.760(b)

## Fall Protection (cont’d)

- Deckers between 15 and 30 feet/2 stories
- Can use a controlled decking zone (CDZ) instead of fall protection

**1926.760(c)**

## Training

- Qualified person to train exposed workers in fall protection
- Qualified person to train exposed workers engaged in special, high- risk activities

**1926.761**

## Specific Controlling Contractor Duties

- Notify the steel erector in writing regarding  concrete cure and anchor bolt changes
- Provide adequate layout areas and onsite access roads
- Preclude work below steel erection unless there is overhead protection
- Choose whether to accept responsibility for maintaining fall protection equipment left by erector (otherwise it must be removed)

## OSHA’s Website

- View the complete standard at _[www.osha.gov](http://www.osha.gov/)_
- View the steel erection information website at _[www.osha.gov/steelerection/index.html](http://www.osha.gov/steelerection/index.html)_