New OSHA QuickCards Address Marine Cargo Handling Operations
OSHA recently developed three QuickCards addressing worker safety topics in Marine cargo handling operations. These pocket-sized, laminated cards are designed to provide brief, easy-to-understand safety and health information for workers...
ASSE Announces its Top Legislative and Regulatory Issues for 2010
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says that 12 key issues will dominate announced its legislative and regulatory agenda for 2010, which is aimed at ensuring that advances in occupational safety and health legislation and regulation reflect the experience, expertise and best practices of ASSE’s member environment, health and safety (EHS) professionals...
DOL 2011 Budget Request Includes OSHA Increase, Focus on Enforcement
On Feb. 1, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis outlined President Obama’s FY 2011 budget request for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), which is built around the vision of “good jobs for everyone” and includes a $14 million proposed increase for OSHA....
OSHA Imposes Reflective Vests on Construction Industry Without Rulemaking
OSHA recently announced that all highway and road construction workers – not just flaggers – must wear reflective vests. It did this even though no OSHA standard imposes such a requirement and even though its standards only recommend reflective vests for non-flaggers...
OSHA Releases Workplace Injury and Illness Information
For the first time, OSHA has made the work-related injury and illness data collected from more than 80,000 employers from 1996 to 2007 available in a searchable online database, allowing the public to look at establishment or industry-specific injury and illness data...
Updated OSHA Guidance Aims to Protect Late-Night Retail Workers from Workplace Violence
OSHA recently updated its guidance document “Recommendations for Workplace Violence Prevention Programs in Late-Night Retail Establishments” that addresses issues causing late-night retail workers to be killed on the job...
OSHA Solicits Comments from Stakeholders, Plans Public Meeting
OSHA recently announced a Feb. 10 “OSHA Listens” public meeting in Washington, D.C., designed to solicit comments and suggestions from OSHA stakeholders on key issues facing the agency...
OSHA Proposes $55,200 in fines to Pembroke, Mass., Contractor for Cave-In Hazard
OSHA has cited CELCO Construction Corp. for alleged willful, serious and other-than-serious violations of safety standards after an OSHA inspector observed a company employee working in an unprotected, 6-foot deep excavation at a Randolph, Mass., work site. The Pembroke, Mass., construction contractor faces a total of $55,200 in proposed fines...
Three Companies Cited by OSHA Following Explosion During Pipeline Construction
Three companies have been cited by OSHA for exposing workers to hazards during the construction of gas pipeline meter stations in Mississippi. Mustang Engineering L.P., Grand Bluff Construction LLC and Priority Energy Services received citations for failing to protect their workers after one died and three others were critically injured...
AIHA Comments on OSHA’s Proposed Hazcom Standard Revision
In response to OSHA’s request for comments on the proposed rule to adapt the United Nations’ Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) expressed support for the hazcom standard modification and its necessity in the workplace...
OSHA Publishes Booklet Outlining Hex Chrome Standards
OSHA recently published “Hexavalent Chromium,” a booklet outlining industry requirements for hexavalent chromium standards. Workers exposed to this toxic chemical can develop lung cancer and damage to the nose, throat and respiratory system...
New OSHA Videos Offer Respirator, Facemask Safety Guidance
OSHA has developed two new videos for health care workers that feature training and guidance on respirator safety...
OSHA Cites International Masonry Inc. Following Fatality
OSHA has cited International Masonry Inc. in Columbus, Ohio with proposed penalties totaling $140,800 for alleged serious and willful violations of federal workplace safety standards after investigating the death of a worker...
OSHA Proposes $1.4 Million in Penalties in Connection with Fatal Explosion in Houston
On Jan. 4, OSHA issued CES Environmental Services Inc. with willful and serious citations totaling $1,477,500 following an investigation into a fatal explosion at the company's Griggs Road facility in Houston...
OSHA fines Huntington, W.Va., Printing Company nearly $160,000 for Workplace Hazards
OSHA has cited Chapman Printing Co. for workplace safety and health violations. Proposed penalties total $158,400. OSHA initiated its inspection on June 18 in response to a formal complaint...
ASSE Urges OSHA to Include Control Banding in Hazcom Standard
In a recent letter to OSHA Administrator David Michaels, American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President C. Christopher Patton stressed that ASSE supports OSHA’s efforts to align its hazard communication standard with the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), but would like to see control banding incorporated into the standard...
Worker Amputations Lead to More Than $266,000 in OSHA Penalties
Crespac Inc. in Tucker, Ga., has been cited with 34 safety and health violations by OSHA. Proposed penalties total $266,400...
L&I and Lewis Equipment Settle Appeal over Crane Safety Violations
Washington state’s Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) and Lewis Equipment Co. have settled an appeal of safety violations that were cited after L&I inspected three tower cranes at construction sites in King County last spring and summer...
OSHA Cites Four Contractors Following the Deaths of Three Workers at Austin, Texas, Worksite
OSHA is proposing penalties against four contractors for alleged safety violations following a scaffolding accident that killed three workers at the 21 Rio construction site near downtown Austin, Texas...
OSHA proposes $484,000 in Penalties against Cambria Contracting Inc. for Asbestos Hazards
OSHA issued citations to Cambria Contracting Inc. for 11 alleged willful violations of the OSHA construction asbestos standard for failing to train and protect its workers at a Buffalo jobsite. The Lockport, N.Y., demolition contractor faces a total of $484,000 in proposed penalties...
New Alliance Promotes Labor Rights of Hispanic Workers
On Dec. 10, OSHA and the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division signed an alliance with the Consulate General of Mexico in New York as part of an effort to promote the labor and human rights of Mexican and other Hispanic workers...
DOL Unveils New “Open Government” Efforts
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced a broad array of efforts designed to improve the public’s accessibility to its agencies and ensure the department can function more effectively...
Safety Stakeholders Welcome Michaels to OSHA
Following the Dec. 3 Senate confirmation of David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, to become the next assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, EHS Today spoke to several safety and health association and union leaders to learn how they would receive the new OSHA administrator...
David Michaels Confirmed as OSHA Administrator
On Dec. 3, the Senate voted to confirm David Michaels as the assistant secretary of labor for OSHA...
OSHA 2009 Site-Specific Targeting Plan: What Your Company Needs To Know
Each year, OSHA issues a site-specific targeting plan identifying industry sectors with historically high occupational injury and illness rates. The 2009 plan targets manufacturing, non-manufacturing and nursing and personal care facilities...
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