Four conditional plans
| Plan | When mandatory | Form |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency action plan | Only when another OSHA standard expressly requires one | Must be written; content listed in the rule |
| Fall protection plan | Leading edge, precast concrete erection and residential construction, where conventional fall protection is infeasible or creates a greater hazard | Prepared by a qualified person, kept on site |
| Site safety and health plan | Only in hazardous waste operations | Kept on site; ten listed content items |
| Permit-required confined space programme | Where entry into a permit-required confined space will take place | Unauthorised entry prevented, hazards identified, equipment provided at no cost |
A difference of logic
The European approach starts from the site: if there is a site there is a plan. The US approach starts from the work: if the work carries a particular hazard, that hazard has a plan. Both aim at the same place, but compliance work starts from a different end.
The practical consequence
A contractor moving from Türkiye to the US cannot comply by translating its single general plan. The right route is to break the work down hazard by hazard and see which conditional plan is triggered.
The ones with content lists
The hazardous waste site plan's ten items include risk analysis, training assignments, personal protective equipment, medical surveillance, monitoring, site control, decontamination, the emergency response plan and confined space entry. So content-listed plans do exist — each tied to particular work.