Occupational safety, health, and environmental regulations
The exam checks that you can name the governing framework and apply it on a tower crane site: Republic Act 11058 with its implementing rules DO 198-18, the DOLE Occupational Safety and Health Standards, and the project safety plan.
What you must apply
- Roles: safety officer, safety committee, trained first-aiders, and the operator's duty to report hazards and refuse unsafe lifts.
- Documentation: risk assessment or job hazard analysis, method statement and lifting plan, permit to work for high-risk activity, toolbox talk records, rigging and crane inspection registers, operator certification, and third-party test certificates.
- Hierarchy of control in order: eliminate, substitute, engineer, administrate, then PPE as the last line.
- Site controls: barricaded exclusion zones, pedestrian routes outside the swing radius, power-line clearance per the manufacturer and electrical code, fire extinguisher at the base, spill kit and bunded fuel storage, segregated waste, noise and dust suppression.
- Incident and near-miss reporting, including serious accidents to DOLE, and preserving the scene for investigation.
Worked example
A load must be assembled at height, exposing fitters to a fall. Eliminate: pre-assemble at ground level and lift complete. If impossible, engineer: guardrails and certified anchor points. Administrate: permit, rescue plan, trained personnel. PPE: harness as the final layer, never the only one. An answer that begins with “provide a safety belt” loses marks.
Traps
Treating PPE as the primary control; assuming a toolbox talk substitutes for certified training; leaving spills and rubbish for the ground crew; ignoring near-misses because nobody was hurt.