The Federal Department of Occupational Safety has announced the new hazard communication standard, featuring the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS), will be published in the Federal Register March 26 and become law May 25,2012. The implementation of the GHS will align OSHA’s hazard communication standard with the United Nations’ chemical labeling system and [...]
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the catastrophic explosion at Imperial Sugar’s Dixie Crystal plant in Port Wentworth, Ga., but the anniversary finds federal regulators with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration slowing progress on a combustible dust standard despite encouragement from the Chemical Safety Board to pick up the pace. The Feb. 7, 2008, [...]
The United States Department of Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) recently released a white paper affirming their belief that requiring all employers to maintain an Injury Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) will lead to both a decrease in occupational injuries and death and a cost savings for employers. To substantiate these claims the paper pulls from [...]
“Oh I’m a general contractor so it’s the subcontractor’s responsibility.” “I’m a subcontractor so it’s the general contractor’s responsibility.” One of the common myths involving a general and subcontractor is safety is the other person’s responsibility. OSHA has decided everybody is responsible for safety. If you have a jobsite you have to be compliant with [...]
The National Hearing Conservation Association is urging the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to reconsider the defining of “feasible” engineering and administrative controls to mitigate occupational noise. “The United States currently lags behind many industrialized nations in the implementation of effective noise controls. There appears to be a misconception that 29 CFR 1910.95 (current regulation) [...]
We’ve heard so much about window washers falling from buildings and construction workers injuring themselves with collapsing cranes. Yesterday, another fatality happened; but this time it involved a forklift. A Rudco Products employee got pinned against a trash compactor when his co-worker lost control of a forklift. Julio A. Rivera, 37, was immediately brought to [...]
