Electrical Safety Training Is Harder Than You Think
Successful electrical safety training changes worker behavior and improves the workplace culture...
Beating the Heat – Protecting Workers in Hot Environments
Working in hot and humid environments not only can be uncomfortable, it also can be a serious health issue due to the potential for heat stress...
Four Decades of OSHA: A Timeline
On April 28, OSHA reaches a 40-year milestone. Since it was founded 4 decades ago, the agency established a range of safety and health regulations to protect the American work force; reduced workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities; and initiated a national conversation about occupational health and safety...
Safety Center Stresses Need for International Construction Safety Training
The director of University of California San Diego Extension’s International Safety Education Institute (ISEI) Construction Workplace Safety Training Program stressed a growing international need for safety training based on OSHA standards to better protect construction workers around the world...
OSHA Revises Outreach Training Program to Improve Trainer Reliability
OSHA recently revised its voluntary Outreach Training Program procedures to include trainer verification requirements and other changes to improve training quality and ensure the integrity of its authorized instructors...
Roofer Cited by OSHA for Fall Hazards at Omaha, Neb., Jobsite
OSHA has cited Allied Roofing Systems LLC of Springfield, Mo., for four safety citations following an inspection of an Omaha job site where employees were exposed to fall hazards while installing a roof. Proposed penalties total $64,000...
Court Rejects Challenge to OSHA’s Fall Protection Directive
On April 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit dismissed the National Roofing Contractors Association’s (NRCA) petition for review of OSHA’s December 2010 directive on the use of fall protection in residential construction. The directive withdrew an earlier one that allowed certain residential construction employers to bypass some fall protection requirements...
OSHA Releases Guidance on Preventing Fall-Related Injuries, Deaths among Residential Construction Workers
On April 8, OSHA issued a new guidance to help employers prevent fall-related injuries and deaths among residential construction workers...
Call Before You Dig: April is National Safe Digging Month
This April marks the fourth annual National Safe Digging Month, an initiative that urges excavators and homeowners to call 811 before beginning a digging project to avoid the injuries or fatalities that could result from striking a utility line...
Protecting Against Extreme Noise
How much noise is too much noise, and what can we do to protect employees working in extreme noise environments?...
Extreme Environments Call for Extreme Innovative Hearing Protection Solutions
Protecting today’s workers in extreme noise environments is no small feat...
OSHA Fines Alabama Contractor After Trench Becomes a Grave at a Construction Site
L & K Contracting Co. in Dothan, Ala., was cited by OSHA with five safety violations following a cave-in last September at an excavation site in Enterprise, Ala. One employee died and another was hospitalized after wet, heavy soil collapsed into a deep trench while the men were installing a sewer pipe. Total proposed fines issued were $159,600...
New OSHA Guidance Helps Small Businesses Comply with Cranes and Derricks Rule
On March 8, OSHA issued the “Small Entity Compliance Guide for Cranes and Derricks in Construction” to help businesses comply with the recently published cranes and derricks in construction rule...
Notre Dame Eliminates Use of Elevated Scissor Lifts Following Student’s Death
Following the death of a 20-year-old student who was filming a football practice when his lift collapsed, Notre Dame announced plans to install a permanent, remote video system for the university’s practice fields to eliminate the need for elevated scissor lifts...
Leadership Training Initiative for Construction Workers Strives to Create Safer Work Environments
Colorado State University researchers, in partnership with construction organizations including the Mechanical Contractors Association (MCA) of Chicago, will lead a new initiative to enhance key leadership characteristics among construction workers that are critical for a safe work environment...
OSHA, Mexican Consulate Form Alliance to Promote Safety for Mexican Workers
An alliance signed Feb. 18 by OSHA and the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock, Ark., strives to enhance workplace safety and health for Mexican workers in Arkansas and Oklahoma...
OSHA Fines Chicago-Area Contractor $60,600 for Trenching Hazards
OSHA has issued Doherty, Giannini & Rietz Construction Inc., an underground contractor located in Bensenville, Ill., one willful and one repeat safety citation for failing to protect workers from cave-ins during trenching operations at a Chicago, Ill., jobsite. The company faces proposed penalties of $60,600...
Administrative Law Judge Upholds OSHA Citations for Trenching Violations
It was a good day in court for the Department of Labor when OSHA won a decision from an administrative law judge upholding eight citations and $91,200 in fines issued to a Boston contractor for excavation and other construction safety hazards...
OSHA Goes Fishing for Fines from Contractor for Fall Hazards at Boston’s Rowes Wharf
OSHA has issued willful and serious citations to NER Construction Management Inc. for exposing workers to fall, scaffolding and other hazards at a worksite at Rowes Wharf in Boston. The Wilmington, Mass., building restoration and masonry contractor faces a total of $235,500 in proposed fines...
Bureau Veritas Chosen as Compliance Manager During Construction Phase of Solar Energy Project
Bureau Veritas has been selected by the Department of Interior – Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to be the compliance manager for the Genesis Solar Energy Project in Riverside County, California. The Genesis Solar Energy facility will be a 250-megawatt solar energy plant built, owned and operated by NextEra, generating enough electricity to power nearly 88,000 homes...
Using Technology to Improve Safety on Construction Sites
By putting systems into place to help manage the safety process on construction sites, contractors don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel...
Hands-On Training Effective in Dangerous Work Environments
Hands-on safety training for workers in highly hazardous jobs is most effective at improving safe work behavior, according to psychologists who analyzed close to 40 years of research. However, less engaging training can be just as effective in preparing workers to avoid accidents when jobs are less dangerous...
Illinois Contractor Ordered to Notify OSHA of Jobsites to Protect against Cave-Ins
The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking an administrative court order requiring Gerardi Sewer & Water Co., a Norridge, Ill.-based contractor, to provide a monthly report of its work locations to OSHA, permit unannounced jobsite audits by qualified independent consultants and annually train workers on cave-in protection for the next two years...
OSHA Fines Binghamton, N.Y., Demolition Contractor $52,500
OSHA cited MJ Scoville Inc., a Binghamton, N.Y., demolition contractor, for nine willful and serious violations of workplace safety and health standards at a building renovation site in Binghamton. The contractor faces a total of $52,500 in proposed fines, chiefly for fall and lead hazards...
Construction Worker Crushed, Three Others Seriously Injured When Wall Tumbles Down
A wall being constructed at a Queens Boulevard site in the Elmhurst section of Queens, N.Y., came tumbling down Jan. 10 just before 9:45 a.m., burying two of the workers. A 26-year-old worker was rushed to the hospital, where he died of his injuries...
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