OSHA standards are essential for protecting fiber optic workers during construction, maintenance, and repair. Compliance minimizes accidents, improves project efficiency, and protects. This section sets forth safety and health standards that apply to the work conditions, practices, means, methods, operations, installations and processes performed at telecommunications centers and at telecommunications field installations, which are located outdoors or in building spaces used for. (1) This section sets forth safety and health standards that apply to the work conditions, practices, means, methods, operations, installations and processes performed at telecommunications centers and at telecommunications field installations, which are located outdoors or in building spaces used. Besides the usual safety issues for all construction, generally covered under OSHA rules in the US (OSHA 10 and 30), fiber optics adds concerns for eye safety, chemicals, sparks from fusion splicing, disposal of fiber shards and more, covered in Part 1. Know the standards that apply to your work Whether you're installing new fiber optic cables or troubleshooting and repairing an existing fiber network, a working knowledge of the regulations that apply to your. Safety in the lab or on the job site must be the number one concern of everyone. Alerts are included in this instru d ath or serious i jury ectacles) conforming to ANSI Z87, for eye protection from accidental injury wh n ha dling chemicals, cab.