With an increase in the popularity of Tilt Wall Construction, BCS is involved in many tilt wall projects. Accordingly, Tilt Wall Operation Safety Rules are presented to BCS workers before each tilt wall lifting operation, in both English and Spanish, and are considered essential to ensure the safety of our crews.
Site Safety Manager, Jonathan Cardoza, Reviews Tilt Wall Safety Rules at a morning huddle.
Workers receive a handout to review basic safety rules at pre-lift safety meetings that include all workers on the jobsite as well as the general contractor’s leadership team. Lift day becomes a primary component of the project schedule and a lift day review of rules and procedures ensures both safety and quality. It focuses on where workers should and should not be during this operation. Workers also learn the command for emergency stops for the crane operator, a list of zero tolerance behaviors and other details that are not part of normal daily commercial concrete safety rules.
Tilt Wall Panels that will be Lifted and Placed by Adjacent Panels.
Some of the basic rules for working around tilt up panel lifting operations are:
- Review the JHA with all crew members, sign and check the list after the safety meeting to ensure all workers have signed in.
- Ensure that workers on site never place themselves:
- under a panel while it is being tilted,
- on the blind side of the panel while the crane is traveling with it,
- No workers should be between:
- the crane and the panel,
- the panel being lifted and an adjacent panel
- Ensure workers never:
- allow horseplay or unnecessary activities or talk near tilt wall erection enter the Controlled Access Zone take pictures of the tilt wall erection
- Instruct workers to:
- remain alert at all times, look out for fellow workers & other heavy equipment.
- to wear proper PPE at all times
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