A group of Australian miners were fired after posting a viral video of themselves doing the “Harlem Shake.” The 30-second video features around eight underground mine workers in various states of undress performing their rendition of the viral dance craze at the Agnew Gold Mine just west of Agnew, Western Australia. Barminco, the Australia-based underground services [...]
The Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration is accepting public comments over proposed rules changes including one that would require employees to wear flame-resistant clothing on and around a well being drilled. The new rules also include a requirement that diesel engines on and around a drilling rig have an emergency shut-down device to prevent [...]
Federal OSHA requires employers to provide employees with eye and face protection when machines or operations present the potential for eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents. These stipulations not only apply to the grunt level employees but also to management personnel, supervisors, and any visitors while they are in a hazardous [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health administration (OSHA), together with the National Institute of safety and health (NIOSH), has renewed a long-standing partnership with Roadway Work Zone Safety and Health Partners to combat work-related injuries and deaths that occur in roadway construction work zones. “Most fatalities that occur in road construction work zones involve a worker [...]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Monday that they signed a settlement with Delta airlines in which the airline affirmed they would ensure all of the company’s baggage handling vehicles would be equipped with seat belts and that employees will use them. “OSHA’s corporatewide settlement agreements are highly effective tools for ensuring that companies [...]
In a sample taken Nov. 9 at the site of subway construction, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration found silica at more than three times the permissible level. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is assuring the public that silica levels 100 feet underground, where the construction is, do not impact surface air quality, but the construction [...]
The state of Minnesota is implementing a new set of standards to reduce on job risk for window washers. The standard requires employers whose workers are suspended more than 14-feet above grade to have a comprehensive written safety plan and provide employee training for window-washing and building-maintenance activities. It also addresses and outlines worker safety [...]
OSHA has rescinded a January 2009 letter of interpretation regarding the use of a particular shock-absorbing lanyard in aerial work platforms. The original letter of interpretation stated because of the requirement of certain lanyards to have an anchor point at a height of 18.5 feet, their usage would likely not comply with OSHA standards when [...]
Early July WorkSafeBC launched www.HiddenKiller.ca, a comprehensive website on asbestos-exposure prevention. The site reflects WorkSafeBC’s efforts to raise awareness about the potential deadly effects of asbestos exposure in the workplace. Asbestos ranks as a leading cause of worker disease and death in British Columbia. The term “hidden killer” refers to the fact that asbestos fibres [...]
Petzl America Inc. of Clearfield, Utah, is voluntarily recalling about 375,000 Scorpio and Absorbica shock-absorbing lanyards sold between 2002 and 2011. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall July 12. Some of the lanyards are missing a safety stitch on the attachment loop, which could cause the lanyard to separate from the climbing [...]
