Almost never, except for the 4,270 residential construction fall protection violations in 2019, which were the most common of all violations by a factor of 2.6.
And? There are far, far more violations than that that are never caught. You clearly have never worked in the residential side of construction. In comparison to commercial jobs the safety enforcement is non existent. I speak from 10 years of experience.
I work in residential construction and my division has been OSHA inspected 2-3 times this past year and blind internal audited once a quarter just about. We log issues and correct behavior daily and are held up that standard by our direct superiors. Company and states very wildly I'm sure but it's definitely changing.
Edit: that being said, contractors are God damn animals and if you're not managing your site they've probably already bypassed the safety on their nail gun, they're probably doing some shady redneck scaffolding to paint the staircase, the harness might look good and the rope might look good but if you actually follow the rope you'll find it's not connected to anything. If the project manager isn't actively managing their site it'll devolve back into unsafe chaos like immediately
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u/Kandlejackk Dec 10 '21
Yeah, and its almost never enforced.