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Struck-By and Work Zones Stand-Down Kit
Help your crew stay out of the path of trucks, loads, and falling objects. Includes a story, site walk, quiz, and pocket cards.
Why it matters
Struck-by is one of OSHA's Focus Four hazards, the four that cause the most deaths in construction. These events happen fast, and often because everyone thought someone else had it covered. A short talk and a walk of your own site can change where people stand and how they move around equipment.
What it covers
- Four ways you get hit: Flying, falling, swinging, and rolling, with examples crews will know.
- Backing equipment: What OSHA requires when a driver cannot see behind the vehicle, and how spotters should work.
- Be seen: When to wear high-visibility gear and why night and early morning work are harder.
- Work zones: Why signs, cones, barricades, and flaggers follow a traffic control plan and should not be moved.
- Loads and swing areas: Stay out from under suspended loads and out of the swing radius of cranes and excavators.
- Falling objects: Hard hats, keeping tools back from edges, and not working under someone else.
Hands-on activity
In the Blind Spot Walkaround, an operator sits in a parked machine while the crew walks around it and cones off every spot the operator cannot see. Longer versions add a site walk where small groups mark places a vehicle, load, or falling object could hit someone, fix what they can, and report the rest.
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What’s in the kit
- Run sheet for 15, 30, or 60 minutes
- Word-for-word supervisor script
- Toolbox talk with a jobsite story
- Hands-on activity
- Poster
- Pocket cards
- Quiz and answer key
- Sign-in sheet, certificate, and follow-up form
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