29 CFR 1926 — OSHA Construction Standards

Construction/CE trades: excavation, scaffolds, cranes, steel erection. 291 sections, full current text (eCFR edition 2026-07-09), each cross-linked to the AF pubs that cite it.

SectionTitleAF citations
1926.1Purpose and scope.
1926.2Variances from safety and health standards.
1926.3Inspections—right of entry.
1926.4Rules of practice for administrative adjudications for enforcement of safety and health standards.
1926.5OMB control numbers under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
1926.6Incorporation by reference.
1926.10Scope of subpart.
1926.11Coverage under section 103 of the act distinguished.
1926.12Reorganization Plan No. 14 of 1950.
1926.13Interpretation of statutory terms.
1926.14Federal contract for “mixed” types of performance.
1926.15Relationship to the Service Contract Act; Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act.
1926.16Rules of construction.
1926.20General safety and health provisions.
1926.21Safety training and education.
1926.23First aid and medical attention.
1926.24Fire protection and prevention.
1926.25Housekeeping.
1926.26Illumination.
1926.27Sanitation.
1926.28Personal protective equipment.
1926.29Acceptable certifications.
1926.30Shipbuilding and ship repairing.
1926.32Definitions.
1926.33Access to employee exposure and medical records.
1926.34Means of egress.
1926.35Employee emergency action plans.
1926.50Medical services and first aid.
1926.51Sanitation.
1926.52Occupational noise exposure.
1926.53Ionizing radiation.
1926.54Nonionizing radiation.
1926.55Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists.
1926.56Illumination.
1926.57Ventilation.
1926.58COVID-19.
1926.59Hazard communication.
1926.60Methylenedianiline.
1926.61Retention of DOT markings, placards and labels.
1926.62Lead.9 × 3 pubs
1926.64Process safety management of highly hazardous chemicals.
1926.65Hazardous waste operations and emergency response.
1926.66Criteria for design and construction of spray booths.
1926.95Criteria for personal protective equipment.
1926.96Occupational foot protection.
1926.97Electrical protective equipment.
1926.100Head protection.
1926.101Hearing protection.
1926.102Eye and face protection.
1926.103Respiratory protection.
1926.104Safety belts, lifelines, and lanyards.
1926.105Safety nets.
1926.106Working over or near water.
1926.107Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.150Fire protection.
1926.151Fire prevention.
1926.152Flammable liquids.
1926.153Liquefied petroleum gas (LP-Gas).
1926.154Temporary heating devices.
1926.155Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.200Accident prevention signs and tags.
1926.201Signaling.
1926.250General requirements for storage.
1926.251Rigging equipment for material handling.2 × 1 pubs
1926.252Disposal of waste materials.
1926.300General requirements.
1926.301Hand tools.
1926.302Power-operated hand tools.
1926.303Abrasive wheels and tools.
1926.304Woodworking tools.
1926.305Jacks—lever and ratchet, screw, and hydraulic.
1926.306Air receivers.
1926.307Mechanical power-transmission apparatus.
1926.350Gas welding and cutting.
1926.351Arc welding and cutting.
1926.352Fire prevention.
1926.353Ventilation and protection in welding, cutting, and heating.
1926.354Welding, cutting, and heating in way of preservative coatings.
1926.400Introduction.
1926.402Applicability.
1926.403General requirements.
1926.404Wiring design and protection.
1926.405Wiring methods, components, and equipment for general use.
1926.406Specific purpose equipment and installations.
1926.407Hazardous (classified) locations.
1926.408Special systems.
1926.416General requirements.
1926.417Lockout and tagging of circuits.
1926.431Maintenance of equipment.
1926.432Environmental deterioration of equipment.
1926.441Batteries and battery charging.
1926.449Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.450Scope, application and definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.451General requirements.
1926.452Additional requirements applicable to specific types of scaffolds.
1926.453Aerial lifts.
1926.454Training requirements.
1926.500Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.501Duty to have fall protection.
1926.502Fall protection systems criteria and practices.
1926.503Training requirements.15 × 3 pubs
1926.551Helicopters.
1926.552Material hoists, personnel hoists, and elevators.
1926.553Base-mounted drum hoists.
1926.554Overhead hoists.
1926.555Conveyors.
1926.600Equipment.
1926.601Motor vehicles.
1926.602Material handling equipment.
1926.603Pile driving equipment.
1926.604Site clearing.
1926.605Marine operations and equipment.
1926.606Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.650Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.2 × 2 pubs
1926.651Specific excavation requirements.
1926.652Requirements for protective systems.
1926.700Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.701General requirements.
1926.702Requirements for equipment and tools.
1926.703Requirements for cast-in-place concrete.
1926.704Requirements for precast concrete.
1926.705Requirements for lift-slab construction operations.
1926.706Requirements for masonry construction.
1926.750Scope.
1926.751Definitions.
1926.752Site layout, site-specific erection plan and construction sequence.
1926.753Hoisting and rigging.
1926.754Structural steel assembly.
1926.755Column anchorage.
1926.756Beams and columns.
1926.757Open web steel joists.
1926.758Systems-engineered metal buildings.
1926.759Falling object protection.
1926.760Fall protection.
1926.761Training.
1926.800Underground construction.
1926.801Caissons.
1926.802Cofferdams.
1926.803Compressed air.
1926.804Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.850Preparatory operations.
1926.851Stairs, passageways, and ladders.
1926.852Chutes.
1926.853Removal of materials through floor openings.
1926.854Removal of walls, masonry sections, and chimneys.
1926.855Manual removal of floors.
1926.856Removal of walls, floors, and material with equipment.
1926.857Storage.
1926.858Removal of steel construction.
1926.859Mechanical demolition.
1926.860Selective demolition by explosives.
1926.900General provisions.
1926.901Blaster qualifications.
1926.902Surface transportation of explosives.
1926.903Underground transportation of explosives.
1926.904Storage of explosives and blasting agents.
1926.905Loading of explosives or blasting agents.
1926.906Initiation of explosive charges—electric blasting.
1926.907Use of safety fuse.
1926.908Use of detonating cord.
1926.909Firing the blast.
1926.910Inspection after blasting.
1926.911Misfires.
1926.912Underwater blasting.
1926.913Blasting in excavation work under compressed air.
1926.914Definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.950General.
1926.951Medical services and first aid.
1926.952Job briefing.
1926.953Enclosed spaces.
1926.954Personal protective equipment.
1926.955Portable ladders and platforms.
1926.956Hand and portable power equipment.
1926.957Live-line tools.
1926.958Materials handling and storage.
1926.959Mechanical equipment.
1926.960Working on or near exposed energized parts.
1926.961Deenergizing lines and equipment for employee protection.
1926.962Grounding for the protection of employees.
1926.963Testing and test facilities.
1926.964Overhead lines and live-line barehand work.
1926.965Underground electrical installations.
1926.966Substations.
1926.967Special conditions.
1926.968Definitions.
1926.1000Scope.
1926.1001Minimum performance criteria for rollover protective structures for designated scrapers, loaders, dozers, graders, crawler tractors, compactors, and rubber-tired skid steer equipment.
1926.1002Protective frames (roll-over protective structures, known as ROPS) for wheel-type agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.
1926.1003Overhead protection for operators of agricultural and industrial tractors used in construction.
1926.1050Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this subpart.
1926.1051General requirements.
1926.1052Stairways.
1926.1053Ladders.
1926.1060Training requirements.
1926.1071Scope and application.
1926.1072Definitions.
1926.1076Qualifications of dive team.
1926.1080Safe practices manual.
1926.1081Pre-dive procedures.
1926.1082Procedures during dive.
1926.1083Post-dive procedures.
1926.1084SCUBA diving.
1926.1085Surface-supplied air diving.
1926.1086Mixed-gas diving.
1926.1087Liveboating.
1926.1090Equipment.
1926.1091Recordkeeping requirements.
1926.1101Asbestos.26 × 3 pubs
1926.1102Coal tar pitch volatiles; interpretation of term.
1926.110313 carcinogens (4-Nitrobiphenyl, etc.).
1926.1104alpha-Naphthylamine.
1926.1106Methyl chloromethyl ether.
1926.11073,3′-Dichlorobenzidiene (and its salts).
1926.1108bis-Chloromethyl ether.
1926.1109beta-Naphthylamine.
1926.1110Benzidine.
1926.11114-Aminodiphenyl.
1926.1112Ethyleneimine.
1926.1113beta-Propiolactone.
1926.11142-Acetylaminofluorene.
1926.11154-Dimethylaminoazobenzene.
1926.1116N-Nitrosodimethylamine.
1926.1117Vinyl chloride.
1926.1118Inorganic arsenic.
1926.1124Beryllium.
1926.1126Chromium (VI).
1926.1127Cadmium.
1926.1128Benzene.
1926.11441,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane.
1926.1145Acrylonitrile.
1926.1147Ethylene oxide.
1926.1148Formaldehyde.
1926.1152Methylene chloride.
1926.1153Respirable crystalline silica.
1926.1201Scope.
1926.1202Definitions.
1926.1203General requirements.
1926.1204Permit-required confined space program.
1926.1205Permitting process.
1926.1206Entry permit.
1926.1207Training.
1926.1208Duties of authorized entrants.
1926.1209Duties of attendants.
1926.1210Duties of entry supervisors.
1926.1211Rescue and emergency services.
1926.1212Employee participation.
1926.1213Provision of documents to Secretary.
1926.1400Scope.
1926.1401Definitions.
1926.1402Ground conditions.
1926.1403Assembly/Disassembly—selection of manufacturer or employer procedures.
1926.1404Assembly/Disassembly—general requirements (applies to all assembly and disassembly operations).
1926.1405Disassembly—additional requirements for dismantling of booms and jibs (applies to both the use of manufacturer procedures and employer procedures).
1926.1406Assembly/Disassembly—employer procedures—general requirements.
1926.1407Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—assembly and disassembly.
1926.1408Power line safety (up to 350 kV)—equipment operations.
1926.1409Power line safety (over 350 kV).
1926.1410Power line safety (all voltages)—equipment operations closer than the Table A zone.
1926.1411Power line safety—while traveling under or near power lines with no load.
1926.1412Inspections.
1926.1413Wire rope—inspection.
1926.1414Wire rope—selection and installation criteria.
1926.1415Safety devices.
1926.1416Operational aids.
1926.1417Operation.
1926.1418Authority to stop operation.
1926.1419Signals—general requirements.
1926.1420Signals—radio, telephone or other electronic transmission of signals.
1926.1421Signals—voice signals—additional requirements.
1926.1422Signals—hand signal chart.
1926.1423Fall protection.
1926.1424Work area control.
1926.1425Keeping clear of the load.
1926.1426Free fall and controlled load lowering.
1926.1427Operator training, certification, and evaluation.4 × 2 pubs
1926.1428Signal person qualifications.
1926.1429Qualifications of maintenance & repair employees.
1926.1430Training.
1926.1431Hoisting personnel.1 × 1 pubs
1926.1432Multiple-crane/derrick lifts—supplemental requirements.
1926.1433Design, construction and testing.
1926.1434Equipment modifications.
1926.1435Tower cranes.
1926.1436Derricks.
1926.1437Floating cranes/derricks and land cranes/derricks on barges.
1926.1438Overhead & gantry cranes.
1926.1439Dedicated pile drivers.
1926.1440Sideboom cranes.
1926.1441Equipment with a rated hoisting/lifting capacity of 2,000 pounds or less.
1926.1442Railroad roadway maintenance machines.
1926.1443Severability.
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