California OSHA Adopts Iron Workers’ New Reinforcing Steel and Post-Tensioning Standards
The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board unanimously voted to adopt the Iron Workers’ comprehensive safety standard updates for reinforcing steel and post-tensioning activities. California is the first state-approved OSHA plan to work with the Iron Workers’ to reform existing safety standards. The Iron Workers’ Safety and Health Department has been working with the Iron Workers’ Department of Reinforcing Steel and industry stakeholders such as the Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute, National Association of Reinforcing Steel Contractors, Post-Tensioning Institute and the Western Steel Council to reform existing standards since 2010.
In 2013, the American National Standards Institute updated its A10.9 Concrete and Masonry standard to reflect comprehensive reforms the Iron Workers’ Safety and Health Department and the industry stakeholders proposed. As part of the 2017 ZERO Incident Campaign commissioned by the Iron Workers’ General President Eric Dean, the Iron Workers’ Safety and Health Department is pursuing updates to the 1971 federal OSHA standard to prevent incidents and fatalities. It continues to pursue new reinforcing steel and post-tensioning standards in other state-approved OSHA plans throughout the country.