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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Ind Med. 2009 Jun;52(6):491–499. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20698

Table II.

Proportion of worksites that met audit safety criteria for domains# and general safety items by contractor size (n=197^)

Small Medium Large
Floor joist/subfloor Domain 100%$ 25% 47%
Floor Openings/Edges Domain* 12% 29% 59%
Wall Openings Domain* 0% 34% 61%
Truss setting Domain Not observed 29% 27%
Roof Sheathing Domain* 0%$ 69% 90%
Ladder Domain 56% 71% 70%
Scaffold Domain 54% 78% 77%
Personal Fall Arrest Domain Not observed 50%$ 94%
General Safety Domain* 43% 58% 68%
 Hard hat use* 14% 69% 77%
 Use of safety glasses* 14% 41% 65%
 Pathways free of material/debris 100% 66% 62%
#

criteria was based on number of items within each domain that were observed

^

reflects number of sites observed for hard hat use (7 small, 61 medium, 129 large), numbers differed for each domain as all domains were not observed at each site

$

observed on one site

*

p ≤ 0.05 Kruskal–Wallis test