Proper housekeeping is not confined to the walls of your home. It is not something we do once a week, or only when the mess becomes an extreme inconvenience to work flow. It is not the responsibility of a single person. Workplace housekeeping is an ongoing activity in which every member of the job force [...]
Citing incidents at four New Jersey construction sites, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration late last month urged construction companies to protect their employees from falls on the job. “This is a call to action for every contractor in the state,” Robert Kulick, OSHA regional administrator in New York, told The Star-Ledger. “These incidents [...]
Prompted by a slate of incidents involving employees being injured in falls at construction sites, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a call to action for New Jersey construction companies to ensure their employees who work above 6 feet have appropriate fall protection. The call to action comes as OSHA investigates the following construction [...]
A personal fall arrest system is designed to prevent a falling worker from hitting the surface below. However, this leaves the worker in a suspended state resulting in pressure that can constrict blood flow between the lower extremities and the heart. If not immediately addressed, this pressure can result in a loss of consciousness in [...]
The states that report the fewest nonfatal injuries for construction workers have some of the highest rates of fatal injuries according to a report released by the RAND corporation, a nonprofit research organization. States with low injury reporting are often in the South, where workers get less pay, lower worker compensation benefits, and are less [...]
A report recently released by the United States Government Accountability Office suggest the government takes to long to develop and implement new safety rules. The report focused on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, finding it took nearly eight years on average for OSHA to approve regulations to protect workers from on-the-job hazards like dangerous [...]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration handed 55 citations totaling more than $174,000 to Hobart Brothers Co., a manufacturer of welding wire and ground power equipment for airplanes in Troy, OH. OSHA opened an inspection into the company under the agency’s Site-Specific Targeting program, which focuses on companies with injury and [...]
The Leicester city council set aside £70,000 for a compensation claim filed by a worker who slipped and injured himself while on the job. The worker was posting signs in a city park to warn the public against the hazards of slipping and falling on ice. City documents indicate the unnamed worker agreed to settle [...]
The United States Department of Occupational Health and Safety is extending the expiration date of a series of temporary enforcement measures designed to help roofers transition to a new fall protection initiative. The temporary enforcement measures instruct OSHA inspectors who find residential roofers not complying with the new residential fall protection directive, but following the [...]
The United States Department of Occupational Health and Safety is recommending $365,000 in fines for repeated safety violations at an upstate New York Walmart. “The sizable fines proposed here reflect not only the seriousness of these conditions but the fact that several of them are substantially similar to hazards identified at nine other Wal-Mart locations [...]
