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Revision History

Document Control, as recorded in the manual.

Rev.DateDescriptionApproved By
2.0August 2026Full rebuild: 2026 OSHA update, new written programs (fall protection, HazCom/GHS Rev. 7, PPE fit, silica, heat), consolidated formsDF
1.0Original safety program

Review cycle: This manual is reviewed at least annually, and whenever regulations change, a new hazard or operation is introduced, or incident trends indicate a program weakness.

Changes in this revision

Revision 2.0 — August 2026

Revision 2.0 is a full rebuild, not an edit of Revision 1.0. Revision 1.0 existed only as a Word document and was never tracked line by line, so no line-level comparison between the two revisions can be produced. What changed is what the manual itself records:

  • Restructured around OSHA Publication 3886, the Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs in Construction: management leadership, worker participation, hazard identification and assessment, hazard prevention and control, education and training, program evaluation and improvement, and coordination on multiemployer worksites.
  • New or rewritten written programs for fall protection, hazard communication (aligned to GHS Rev. 7), PPE selection and fit, respirable crystalline silica, and heat illness prevention.
  • 2026 regulatory update throughout — each change is itemized with its CFR citation and effective date in What's New — 2026 Regulatory Update Summary.
  • Forms consolidated into Appendices A through H, so the acknowledgment, warning notice, injury and first-aid reports, hazard report, orientation checklist, toolbox talk record, and inspection checklist are all in one place.

Future revisions

Each published revision is tagged in the source repository as safety-manual-rev-<revision>. From Revision 3.0 onward, the exact set of changes between any two revisions can therefore be produced as a line-by-line difference of the manual's source, and this section will carry a plain-language summary of that difference for each revision.

Archived editions

Each published revision is kept as an immutable PDF so the exact edition in force on a given date can be retrieved.