One of OSHA’s grantees, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and its Research Center, will be offering a free seminar on scaffold and ladder safety. NAHB is a recipient of OSHA’s Susan Harwood Training Grant Program, and will conduct this seminar under provisions of the said grant. The two and a half hour safety [...]

OSHA has been busy with a lot of works lately.  If you’re not updated, here’s a summary of the latest things that you need to know. #1: National Consensus Standards in Acetylene Standards OSHA’s Acetylene Standards has been revised to reflect the practices in the industry today.  Employers are now required to ensure that in-plant [...]

Oregon’s OSHA has cited ConAgra Foods and NW Metal Fabricators Inc. for a worksite accident in Boardman that took the life of 21-year old Kevin Paul Gregerson early this year. Gregerson, a welder, became a casualty to unsafe work conditions and the lack of safety precautions in a worksite when the steel tank he was [...]

An online blog posted information on Monday about OSHA’s National Emphasis Program (NEP) on recordkeeping which will address workplace injury and illness underreporting problems.  The NEP will cover states that are under federal OSHA’s jurisdiction but state plan OSHA programs are also encouraged to have their own initiatives.  The program will begin this month. With [...]

Ethylene oxide or EtO is one sneaky culprit. You can’t see or smell it. Before you know it, you’ve already been exposed to levels that can cause serious harm to human health. It is also flammable and highly reactive. An undetected leak may cause a fatal explosion. This substance is widely used in sterilizing medical [...]

Multina’s Plattsburgh Plant has been found by OSHA to have repeated safety violations as well as new ones and will now have to answer up with over $109,000 in fines. Multina USA Inc., a company that produces seats for the mass-transportation industry, is being cited and fined for seven alleged repeat and serious violations as [...]

US Postal Service’s Juneau Mendenhall Post Office is the newest Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) member. The site was approved and qualified by OSHA as a star, the highest level of all three programs. Richard S. Terrill, OSHA Regional Administrator in Seattle, stated that Juneau Mendenhall Post Office has an injury and illness rate less than [...]

Acting Assistant Secretary Jordan Barab, in a speech during a conference, encouraged safety and health professionals to be more involved and aggressive in securing safety in the workplace.  Barab of the Department of Labor for OSHA outlined the actions on how this can be done.  For those of you who aren’t aware of this, here’s [...]

Three Louisiana based companies were fined $112,000 for alleged asbestos related violations. Louisiana Health Care Consultants LLC, Dean Building Holdings and Bob Dean Enterprises Inc. were cited for multiple willful and serious violations. A willful violation is described as a violation wherein the agency is aware that the conduct is considered prohibited by OSHA or [...]

A complaint on unsafe working conditions led OSHA’s Hartford office to inspect Pfizer’s Groton campus.  The inspection revealed 5 violations related to workspaces and work practices, one of which is unsafe clearance near electrical equipment. The violations, which OSHA termed as serious, were specifically found in the pharmaceutical company’s Buildings 260 and 230 which are [...]