General safety and health provisions (1926.20)
CHST video lesson, 6:24. CHST Domain 3: Safety Program Development, Implementation, and Sustainment
Narrated with an AI-generated voice. The script is AI-drafted from the cited rules and fact-checked against them.
Who owns accident prevention on a construction site: employer program duties, competent-person inspections, defective equipment, standard precedence, per-employee duties and prime contractor responsibility.
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What this lesson covers
In this lesson, you'll learn to: state the employer's program and inspection duties, handle non-compliant equipment and decide who may operate it, apply the specific-over-general rule and per-employee duties, and assign responsibility between prime contractors and subcontractors. Under 1926.20, the employer carries the accident prevention duty.
- Intro
- Learning objectives
- Accident prevention responsibilities
- Unsafe equipment and operators
- Which standard applies
- Compliance duties owed to each employee
- 1926.16 Rules of construction
- Where Part 1926 applies
- Contract condition and prime duty
- On the job
- Common exam traps
- Recap quiz
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