OSHA VPP Challenge Pilot Program Participant First to Earn Star Status
OSHA's VPP recognizes the outstanding efforts of employers and employees who have achieved exemplary occupational safety and health. The VPP Challenge...
Ohio Company Fined $257,000 by OSHA
The facility, which had been inspected 4 times once for a fatality investigation in 2003 was investigated by OSHA personnel after receiving injury and...
Triple Fatality at Mississippi Work Site Results in OSHA Citations
The accident occurred June 5 as employees welded pipes connecting used oil storage tanks. Vapors in one tank that contained oil residue traveled through...
Death at Weymouth, Mass., Workplace Leads to OSHA Citations
The building-products supplier was cited for two alleged serious and two alleged repeat violations of safety standards for the use of forklifts following...
OSHA Launches Flexography Module as Part of Ergonomics eTool
The module and the eTool are products of the agency's alliance with the Graphic Arts Coalition. "This is an important addition to a valuable resource...
MACOSH to Hold Two-Day Meeting in September
The meeting is the first since Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao earlier this month re-established the committee's charter, which had expired on April 1,...
Union Wants Emergency Standard for Popcorn Flavoring in California
UFCW, in collaboration with the California Labor Federation, is petitioning the standards board to require employers to control airborne exposure to diacetyl...
OSHA Fines Gold Kist $143,000
OSHA said it issued 21 serious safety citations with proposed penalties of $90,000. The citations were associated with: Blocked and improperly marked...
OSHA Adds APFs to Respiratory Protection Standard
OSHA will publish its final respiratory standard on APFs in the Aug. 24 Federal Register. This APF final rule completes the revision of the reserve sections...
OSHA Fines N.J. Contractor for Fall Hazards, Failing to Report Worker Death
Employees of Jose Construction Corp. were working on a roof on March 27 when a worker fell 20 feet from a ladder. He died of his injuries on April 1....
Whistleblower Reinstated Following Firing for OSHA Complaint
An OSHA whistleblower investigation found that Books for Less LLC, 101 Steuben St., had fired the employee on March 3, 2 days after an OSHA inspection...
OSHA Cites Roofing Company After Impaling Fatality
"This horrific accident could have been avoided if the employer had followed required safety procedures," said Luis R. Santiago, OSHA's area director...
Web Exclusive: Conquering Depression in the Workplace
Lynette had a deep, embarrassing secret. She had been the star employee of the company. Everyone loved her. She was now a very capable manager. Even her...
OSHA Urged to Issue Worker Safety Standard for Popcorn Flavoring
Representatives from the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in a July 26 phone conference,...
OSHA Unveils VPP for Mobile Work Force in Construction
OSHA Administrator Ed Foulke unveiled the new initiative which OSHA is calling the Mobile Workforce VPP Demonstration for Construction at the Associated...
OSHA Cites Dublin, Ga., Newsprint Manufacturer Following Fatal Accident
OSHA's fatality inspection began Jan. 10, after a maintenance employee assigned to lubricate the dry end of a paper production machine was pinned between...
OSHA Launches Basic Steel Products Topics Page
Basic Steel Products, a new Safety and Health topic, is a product of alliances the agency formed with the Steel Group and the Crane, Hoist and Monorail...
Sears Agrees to Settle with OSHA for 2005 Safety Violations
"We are pleased to resolve this matter and avoid the time and expense of litigation," said Edwin G. Foulke Jr., assistant secretary of labor for OSHA....
OSHA Cites Arkansas Roofing Company After Employee Death
Angel Pea, who worked for Crossland Construction Co., was laying decking on the roof of a metal warehouse when he stepped on some insulation and fell...
Weight Loss, Company Gain
As a former college professor with a doctorate in exercise physiology and 29 published research papers to his credit, Tom Gilliam has an appreciation...
From Warm Fuzzies to Fitness Culture
When the 2,500-square-foot wellness center at Moen Inc.'s North Olmsted, Ohio, headquarters opened about a dozen years ago, it was viewed primarily as...
Science to the Rescue: Learning What Works in First Aid
Injury and illness on the job kill more than 2 million people around the world each year. That's 6,000 people a day. If a co-worker experienced chest...
Earning a Healthy Return on Investment at DaimlerChrysler
It's no secret that employers are trying hard to cut their health care bills. Many companies have shifted costs to employees and used managed care to...
Sucess Story: Implementing an AED Program with Lifesaving Results
In August 2002, an employee alerted our staff nurse about a fellow employee who didn't look well. When the nurse arrived, the ill-looking employee collapsed...
Bad Vibrations: Hand-Arm Vibration Exposure and HAVS Prevention
Hand-Arm Vibration (HAV) is an occupational vibration exposure that mainly affects people who regularly use all types of vibrating pneumatic, electric,...
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