OSHA has issued an alert for faulty remanufactured Eaton/Cutler-Hammer circuit breakers. The remanufactured breakers are part of the company’s E2 mining series model numbers E2K and E2KM. According to OSHA during the reconditioning process the remanufacturing company modified the breakers from the original design. OSHA warned the modifications can cause electrical shock, burns and fires. [...]

  Workplace violence is one of the most significant detriments to the American workplaces costing businesses more than $70 billion a year and leading to the loss of about 600 lives. Despite these shocking numbers the vast majority of companies have no program in place to deal with workplace violence. This article will provide the [...]

Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries show little change in the number of workplace fatalities in 2010 compared to 2009. Last year, 4,547 workers died from work-related injuries, down from a final count of 4,551 fatal work injuries in 2009. “No worker should have to sacrifice his [...]

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board recently voted to revise the Heat Illness Prevention Standard. Although labor advocates argued the proposed revisions were not comprehensive enough, DOSH Chief Len Welsh said that it was “necessary and [the right] time” to adopt the revisions. Under the revisions, employers must provide shade to at least 25% of the employees [...]

Regardless of the amount of safety training and precautions you take as a company at some point in time an accident will happen. When that accident does occur do you employees’ know how to properly react? This article will focus on the treatment and identification of cuts and lacerations, which are constantly ranked as one [...]

In late August OSHA issued an alert on engulfment and suffocation hazards for workers in grain storage bins. Grain bins are used to store bulk raw agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat and oats. Workers who enter bins can be engulfed and suffocated if they stand on moving or flowing grain, which can act like [...]

Inc. magazine has ranked Tempe based Safety Services Company as one of the fastest growing private-owned companies in the nation for the fourth consecutive year. “We are truly honored to be recognized as a one of the fastest growing companies in America,” said Safety Services Company CEO Devon Dickinson. “This recognition shows the results of the [...]

The deadline for residential construction employers to comply with OSHA’s new fall protection initiative is Sept. 15. The new directive requires all residential builders to comply with 29 Code of Federal Regulations 1926.501(b)(13). Under 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13) workers engaged in residential construction over six (6) feet above the ground level are to be protected by conventional fall protection. For roofers, the 25 foot, ground to- eave height threshold no longer applies, [...]

The socio-economic changes of the past several decades have resulted in a shift in the British Columbia economy from the traditional resource base to the service sector, as well as the entry of more women into the labor force. Female Workers, the feature story in WorkSafeBC Statistics 2010, explores these trends by looking at the [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportation issued a final rule limiting the number of consecutive hours passenger railroad workers can be on the job. The new Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) regulation will reduce risk and improve safety for the railroad industry, and for the first time, differentiate between freight and passenger service. Designed to reduce accidents [...]