Safety and Legal Issues
Notes:
- HOW THIS SECTION IS ORGANIZED
- Health and Safety issues
- Safety discussion is brief
- Usually given at the end of the Section 7 presentation
- Often presented by a technical person
- Part 1 of Legal Section
- Comprised of legal information pertinent to technical sections 2 through 7
- Earthquake legal basics
- Shear walls
- Connections
- Foundations
- Non-structural elements
- Usually presented by an attorney
- Instructor can choose to present this information:
- Before each break, covering legal information pertinent to technical information presented to that time
- At the end of the presentation
- Part 2 of Legal Section
- Comprised of information that does not fit in with earlier technical sections
- Usually presented separately, at the end of the course