When visiting a construction site, there are guidelines that must be followed to ensure everyone’s safety. While your home is under construction, you should always remember that your home’s construction site is a workplace and can be very dangerous if you do not have the proper equipment or if you do not pay very close attention to your surroundings.  

• To ensure your safety, please do not visit your home during the framing stage.

• You should make arrangements to visit the construction site during times suggested by your builder so you do not impede the progress of the work crews. Use common sense safety precautions when you are walking around a home under construction.

• Watch for boards with nails sticking out of them on the ground.

• Watch for boards with nails that have gone all the way through on walls and ceilings.

• Pay attention to open spaces in the floors from one story to the next.

• Be aware of stairwells which have not been completed – there may not be a Guardrail and there may be open spaces between the boards which could cause you to fall or trip.

• Remember that doors and windows may not be installed even though the spaces for them are framed in. Watch out for openings for doors to decks or balconies which may be a high drop to the ground.

• Never touch any equipment left at the site.

• Watch for the possibility of falling boards or other objects.

• Remember that the site will be dusty and dirty – be aware of mud if it has rained.

• Don’t track mud or dirt inside your home.

• Be aware of wet paint or newly stained or varnished wood floors.

• Watch for wet concrete.

• Watch out for ditches or utility trenches around the home site.