Week 27: OSHA Permit

While we wait for the High Dedication declaration we have been getting the other necessary sign-offs from other affiliated departments at Building and Safety. This Monday I went down to CAL OSHA's (California Occupational Safety & Health Administration) offices in Downtown to pull a temporary OSHA permit for construction. Bascially, this only amounts to tagging the project so that OSHA can monitor it for safety violations in case the sub-contractors do not pull the necessary OSHA permits during construction. It is really unfair because it pins most of the responsibility on the contractor or owner-building of the project, rather than the sub-contractor where the responsibility truly belongs. However, because the contractor is responsible for his/her subs then the burden falls on them to monitor compliance. In any case, the temporary permit is easy to aquire, though why it can't be folded into the building permit is beyond me.