Resource Highlight: MCAA’s Safety Manuals for Construction, Fabrication and Service

August 1, 2025

Risk mitigation is key to every company’s bottom line and to the safety of every worker. MCAA’s Safety Manuals for Construction, Fabrication, and Service can be easily integrated into a company safety program, providing MCAA members with a way to ensure compliance, enhance workforce safety awareness, and create a proactive safety culture that reduces risk—and ultimately cost. These are just a few of MCAA’s educational resources that are free to MCAA members as a benefit of membership.

Safety Manual for Mechanical Construction Workers

This quick reference tool provides critical information on everything from aerial lift safety to preventing overexposure to zinc to keep mechanical construction workers safe. It includes new information on administering CPR, beryllium, recent changes to NFPA 70E, and more.

Safety Manual for Mechanical Fabrication Shop Workers

This quick reference tool provides critical information on 61 safety and health topics that are specific to work performed by mechanical fabrication shop workers. The topics include everything from bloodborne pathogens through welding-cutting-heating, and zinc exposures. The manual also includes updated information on how to properly administer CPR.

Safety Manual for Mechanical Service Technicians

This quick reference tool provides critical information on 84 safety and health topics that are specific to work performed by mechanical service technicians, including information on the newest and most frequently used refrigerants, substantive changes to NFPA 70E, and new information on how to properly administer CPR.

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