Michaels Identifies Oil Spill Cleanup Safety Concerns, BP Response Deficiencies
In a May 25 memo to Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the Gulf Coast oil spill, OSHA administrator David Michaels expressed concern “over significant deficiencies in BP’s oil spill response operations related to worker safety” and outlined problem areas ranging from inadequate site control practices to heat stress risks and more...
OSHA Amends Steel Erection Standard to Improve Highway Construction Worker Safety
OSHA has added a note to its Steel Erection standard informing employers of certain Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requirements in an effort to better protect workers and motorists during highway bridge construction...
L&I Investigating Deaths of Two Workers
Washinton state’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) is investigating the deaths of two men killed on the job May 26 in Auburn, Wash. They died after a boom truck they were operating apparently made contact with a live power line...
AIHce 2010: New Frontiers in Science and Practice
OSHA Administrator Dr. David Michaels and NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard were special guests in the May 26 “AIHce Morning Show” general session at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Expo (AIHce) in Denver, where they discussed pressing EHS issues and outlined what they hope their agencies can accomplish in the coming years...
AIHce 2010: Mine Workers President Roberts Calls for Stronger Workplace Safety Regulations
Cecil Roberts Jr., president of the United Mine Workers of American (UMWA), prowled the stage during his Tuesday keynote address at the American Industrial Hygiene conference and expo in Denver on May 25, demanding safer working conditions for American workers...
OSHA Proposes Rulemaking to Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls
OSHA has published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the May 24 Federal Register that will require improved worker protection from tripping, slipping and falling hazards on walking and working surfaces. A public hearing on the revised changes will be held after the public comment period for the NPRM...
OSHA Cites Shipbuilder $1.3 million for Confined Space Violations Following Fatalities
OSHA has fined shipbuilder VT Halter Marine Inc. (VTHM) $1,322,000 following a November 2009 explosion and fire that killed two workers and seriously injured two others. While OSHA contends that the employer “knowingly and willingly” put workers at risk, VTHM claims the safety issues have been addressed and hopes to partner with OSHA to improve safety within the industry...
OSHA Distributes Oil Spill Cleanup Safety Materials
OSHA is distributing thousands of safety guides and fact sheets in several languages to employees involved with the oil spill cleanup along the Gulf Coast...
OSHA Reviews the Methylene Chloride Standard
Following a recent review of its Methylene Chloride standard, OSHA indicated that the standard “is succeeding in protecting workers from the effects of methylene chloride exposure such as respiratory and central nervous system failure and cancer.”...
OSHA to Partner with Local Building Inspectors to Reduce Construction Fatalities
OSHA is launching a pilot program seeking to partner with building inspectors in 11 U.S. cities to reduce injuries and fatalities at construction sites...
OSHA's Big Dust-Up: Why Is OSHA Initiating a Combustible Dust Rulemaking Now?
Combustible dust hazards aren’t a new problem, so why is OSHA promulgating a new standard...
Obama Issues the First Presidential Proclamation For Workers Memorial Day
Fourteen U.S. workers a day lose their lives in workplace-related incidents. President Barack Obama has become the first president to issue a presidential proclamation in honor of Workers Memorial Day. The proclamation comes on the heels of a particularly deadly period for U.S. workers, with four incidents with multiple fatalities occurring in the past several months...
Safety Stakeholders Testify at House Hearing on Whistleblower and Victim Rights
During a House Education and Labor Committee Workforce Protections Subcommittee hearing on April 28, witnesses testified that legislation is needed to modernize federal laws that protect workers who blow the whistle on unsafe working conditions and ensure victims of workplace accidents have a voice an investigation...
OSHA Releases Workplace Toxic Chemical Exposure Data and Latino Worker Memo
On April 28, OSHA announced it is releasing 15 years of data providing details of workplace exposure to toxic chemicals. This data will offer insight into the levels of toxic chemicals commonly found in workplaces, as well as how chemical exposure levels to specific chemicals are distributed across industries, geographical areas and time...
Workers’ Memorial Day: OSHA’s Michaels Testifies Before the Senate
On the eve of Workers’ Memorial Day, OSHA Administrator David Michaels testified at a Senate hearing, where he stressed that the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act must be updated in order to better protect American workers from injuries and death...
Workers’ Memorial Day: April was Deadly Month for the American Worker
This year’s Workers’ Memorial Day, held April 28 to honor men and women who suffered job-related injury and death, comes on the heels of three high-profile, fatal workplace accidents. The April 2 Tesoro refinery explosion in Anacortes, Wash., led to seven fatalities; the April 5 Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the deadliest mining accident in recent history; and an April 20 explosion at an oil drilling platform has left 11 workers missing and presumed dead...
Workers’ Memorial Day: National Workers Memorial Unveiled
After a year of construction, the new National Workers Memorial in Silver Spring, Md., will be unveiled on April 28, Workers’ Memorial Day. In addition to remembering the more than 5,000 U.S. workers who die on the job each year, this ceremony will pay special tribute to victims of the mining tragedy in Montcoal, W.Va., and the Tesoro refinery explosion in Anacortes, Wash...
OSHA Agenda Includes Injury and Illness Prevention Program
In addition to familiar topics such as cranes and derricks, diacetyl, beryllium and crystalline silica, OSHA’s spring 2010 regulatory agenda contains some new, high-priority items – an Injury and Illness Prevention Program standard and a move to modernize the agency’s injury and illness reporting systems...
OSHA Introduces Severe Violator Program, Increases Civil Penalties
Every day, about 14 Americans fail to come home from work to their families. Tens of thousands die from workplace disease and more than 4.6 million workers are seriously injured on the job annually. In an effort to address these workplace safety and health concerns, OSHA is implementing a new Severe Violator Enforcement Program and increasing civil penalty amounts...
OSHA Cites Werner Construction Inc. After Employee Is Killed
OSHA cited Werner Construction Inc. of Norfolk, Neb., for willful and serious violations of the OSH Act following the investigation of a worker killed when caught in a roadway belt paving machine’s screw conveyors...
OSHA Proposes More than $63,000 in Penalties Against Alabama Manufacturer
OSHA is proposing $63,700 in penalties against Daehan Solution Alabama LLC in Hope Hull, Ala., for safety violations, following an inspection in October 2009 that was trigger by an employee sustaining an amputation of three fingers on one hand...
Southern Recycling Asks OSHA to Withdraw Shipbreaking Guidance
The Washington area office of Southern Recycling – EMR USA, a metal recycling company, has asked OSHA to withdraw its recent shipbreaking guidance on the grounds that it contains misleading and erroneous information and doesn’t include practical guidance for the industry as it actually operates...
Solis Convenes Summit on Health and Safety of Latino Workers
Of the thousands of workers in the U.S. who are injured or killed on the job each year as a result of preventable incidents, Latino employees suffer work-related injuries and fatalities at higher rates than all other workers. It is with these statistics in mind that U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis convened a historic National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety beginning April 15...
OSHA Issues Shipbreaking Safety Document
OSHA has published an online Safe Work Practices in Shipbreaking document to help protect shipbreaking workers from injury and death and to outline employers’ obligations for providing safe work environments for their employees...
OSHA Introduces New Strategic Plan
As part of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new 6-year strategic plan, OSHA unveiled its goals, strategies and approaches for improving workplace safety and health, with a focus on enforcement, reducing fatalities, maintaining a strong outreach and education program, improving “voice in the workplace” and more...
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