Report: Massachusetts Workplace Deaths On the Rise
Dying for Work in Massachusetts: The Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces, produced by the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts Coalition...
Roofing Company Superintendent Faces OSHA Obstruction Charges
Media reports cited a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of Illinois in Rock Island against company superintendent...
Survey Addresses Matting Systems and Environmental, Safety Issues
Nearly 120 facility managers participated in the survey. While the majority of respondents understood that mats prevent slips and falls in the workplace,...
U.S. Labor Department's OSHA Cites Georgia Contractor for Fall Hazards
OSHA first cited and fined DEC Management $2,100 in August 2007 for failing to implement a fall protection program and provide fall protection training...
OSHA Proposes $173,000 in Fines against West Haven, Conn., Roofing Contractor
Quality Roofing Systems Inc. was cited for a total of 11 alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards at its worksite following an OSHA...
Safety Harness Recalled
The recall affected Gorillas Pullover Style Full Body Safety Harness, model SP40300, which was sold as an accessory with the Gorilla 2007 ladder stands...
House Letter Asks for OSHAs Cintas Investigation Status
Signed by subcommittee chair Lynn Woolsey D-Calif., Phil Hare D-Ill., Donald Payne D-N.J., Timothy Bishop D-N.Y. and Carol Shea Porter D-N.H., the letter...
NSC: Fall Protection in the Chemical and Plastics Industries
Burnette outlined what he calls the hierarchy of falls to protect employees exposed to these hazards: eliminating or reducing the risk of falls, passive...
ANSI/ASSE Z359-2007: Better Fall Protection
Bob is working 15 feet above ground, changing a filter on a machine with no guardrails. Because his supervisor wants to follow OSHA fall protection regulations,...
Reducing Slips, Trips and Falls in Stairways
With over 8 million people treated for fall-related injuries in 2004, falls are the leading cause of nonfatal unintentional injuries treated in hospital...
OSHA Turns the Heat Up on Milwaukee Oven Manufacturer
As a result of safety and health inspections, OSHA issued two willful citations with proposed penalties totaling $100,000, alleging that the company failed...
Railroad Chooses Rooftop Fall Prevention System
Hollywood movies and television shows have thrilled viewers for decades with scenes of heroes and villains chasing each other from atop car-to-car, maintaining...
New Frontiers in Fall Protection Equipment
The numbers dont lie. Falls are the No. 1 killer of construction workers and the second-leading cause of occupational death for general-industry workers,...
AFL-CIO: Nation's Workplaces Too Unsafe
The union's annual report, Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, was released April 26 as a precurser to Workers Memorial Day on April 28. The report...
Elevating Safety to New Heights
Two workers were injured, one fatally, in a tragic fall at the Arkansas State Fairgrounds during the installation of a banner in the food court, approximately...
House Dems Applaud DOL's PPE Decision
The standard has been on hold since 1999, and the decision to release it was prompted by a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO and the United Food and Commercial...
Labor Department Ordered to Respond to Lawsuit
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit gave the Labor Department 30 days from the date of its order to respond to the lawsuit,...
NYC Mayor Proposes Safety Bills Due to Rise in Scaffold Deaths
Bloomberg has earmarked $6 million to implement recommendations from the Suspended Scaffold Worker Safety Task Force, which he convened in November 2006...
Guardrails Recommended After Fatal Fall
The employee, a 43-year-old temporary worker who was operating a tower conveyor at a lumber planing mill, was clearing a lumber jam when he missed his...
Preventing Outdoor Same-Level Slips, Trips and Falls
by Wayne Maynard Slips, trips and falls in outdoor environments can be caused by rain, sleet, ice and snow and particulate soil that cause surfaces to...
ANSI Z359: Defining Managed Fall Protection
Falls account for 8 percent of all fatal occupational injuries from trauma and some 36 percent of construction fatalities. Causes of fatal falls can include...
ASSE: Are You a 'Self-Interpreter' of OSHA Fall Protection Standards?
That's the belief of fall protection expert Richard Epp, PE, CSP, who is an industrial safety engineer with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
Attacking Ladder Falls One Rung at a Time
The impact from sprains and strains, broken bones and other more serious disabling conditions resulting from falls from ladders reaches far beyond the...
After the Fall: Will Your Rescue Program Leave Workers Hanging?
In March 2004, OSHA issued a safety and health bulletin outlining the dangers of prolonged, upright suspension. The bulletin warned of the risk of "orthostatic...
Fall Prevention in the Construction Industry
by Scott Potts, M.S., and James D. McGlothlin, MPH, Ph.D., CPE Recently, researchers from Purdue University's School of Health Sciences, aided by a NIOSH...
