OSHA and FCC Hold Public Workshop on Draft Communication Tower Best Practices

On Thursday, February 11, 2016 OSHA and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hosted a public workshop to discuss draft Best Practices in Communication Tower Safety, which were compiled after a meeting of industry stakeholders and participants in a FCC and Department of Labor (DOL) Joint Workshop, held on October 14, 2014.

 

In 2014, OSHA and the FCC established a partnership aimed at improving worker safety in the tower climbing industry. The communication tower industry is unique in that the company that owns the tower rarely performs tower maintenance and upgrade work in-house.  By the time the work is actually performed, there may be three or four layers of sub-contractors between the workers performing the work and the tower owner.

 

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