HAR §12-110-3. Safety and health inspections

(a) The general contractor of every construction or demolition project on which employees are engaged shall arrange to have inspections made during the period of the project for the purpose of assuring compliance with the Hawaii Occupational Safety and Health Law. Where there is no general contractor, the owner shall be responsible or shall designate one particular contractor to be responsible to perform the necessary safety inspections. (b) Inspections shall be conducted with sufficient quality, frequency, and scope to identify recognized hazards and ensure their correction in §12-110-3 110-10 order to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities. At minimum, inspections shall be in accordance with this schedule: (1) Projects employing one (1) to ninety-nine (99) persons, at any single moment in the work day, shall have an employee assigned to make at least one inspection each workday; (2) Projects employing one hundred (100) to one hundred ninety-nine (199) persons shall have two employees assigned, each to make at least one inspection each work day; and (3) Projects employing two hundred (200) or more persons shall have one additional designated employee for each three hundred (300) persons above one hundred ninety-nine (199) each to make at least one inspection each workday. Exception: Projects employing less than three (3) persons, need not comply with subsection (c). (c) Written records of the daily safety and health inspections shall be kept on the project site for review by the director for the duration of the project. Inspection records shall include, at minimum, the following: (1) The date and start time of the inspection; (2) The name of the employee conducting the inspection; (3) The scope (project areas) of the inspection, including the names of all contractors and subcontractors covered by the scope of the inspection; (4) A brief description of all potential and actual hazards noted during the inspection; (5) Name and title of the person responsible for correcting the identified hazards noted during the inspection; (6) Information regarding how the hazard was eliminated, corrected, or abated including the inspector's recommendations for preventing the recurrence of the hazards. (d) Warning signs shall be posted prohibiting unauthorized persons from operating potentially §12-110-5 110-11 hazardous machines or equipment. [Eff 7/12/82; am 9/27/84; am 11/2/12; am and comp 10/27/18] (Auth: HRS §396-4) (Imp: HRS §396-4)