Ventilation
OSHA cites Cambridge, Mass., Contractor For Confined Space Hazards
OSHA has cited a Cambridge, Mass., contractor for alleged willful and serious violations of safety and health standards ...
Controlling and Removing Static Electricity During Confined Space Entry Ventilation
EHS professionals need a clear, well-defined 'how-to' standard on the proper procedures for controlling and safely removing electrostatic charges during confined space ventilation....
New NIOSH Guidance Aims to Help Protect Health Care Workers from TB
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is offering new technical guidance for using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) systems to help protect health care workers who may have an occupational risk of tuberculosis (TB) infection. ...
OSHA Proposes $273,000 in Fines against Jamestown, N.Y., Employer for Lack of Asbestos Safeguards
OSHA cited Blackstone Business Enterprises Inc. of Jamestown, N.Y., for 18 alleged willful and serious violations of OSHA standards for failing to protect contract employees against asbestos hazards....
CSB Safety Video Targets Dust Explosion Prevention
To mark the first anniversary of the Imperial Sugar explosion that killed 14 workers in February 2008, CSB Chairman John Bresland released a new video safety message asking federal regulators and businesses to increase efforts to prevent combustible dust fires and explosions....
Tyson Foods Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Pay $500,000 Fine for Violation that Led to Worker Fatality
On Jan. 6, Tyson Foods Inc. pleaded guilty and agreed to pay the maximum fine of $500,000 for willfully violating worker safety regulations that led to a 2003 fatality in its River Valley Animal Foods (RVAF) plant in Texarkana, Ark., according to the U.S. Department of Justice....
Decades-Old Asbestos Exposure Impacts Current Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost
Asbestos exposure that occurred decades ago continues to influence asbestosis-related mortality and years of potential life lost today, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Dec. 12 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Workers in construction, boat building/repairing, plumbing and pipefitting may especially be at risk....
Attack of the Toxic Air Handler
When you apply that proposition to the air circulating through buildings, you may think there's no problem because the air is filtered or cleaned by the...
Expanding Confined Space Awareness
Joe Gurican, who teaches a confined space awareness class, believes confined space deaths typically occur for two reasons. First, employers and workers fail to recognize and control the hazards associated with confined spaces, and secondly, they conduct inadequate or incorrect emergency response, resulting in the death of the initial entrant, the would-be rescuer or both. ...
International OHS Through the Looking Glass of the Global Economy
The occupational health and safety conditions at the giant open-pit copper mine in Cananea, Mexico displayed how workplace safety in the global economy...
