One aspect of this agreement requires participating employers to provide effective training on worksite safety and health issues to non-English speaking employees.
According to the task group, the standard will most benefit state
departments of transportation that require high-performance corrosion
protection of reinforcing steel bars in coastal environments, as well
as departments of transportation that use deicing salts on roads,
bridges, and decks.
The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health program's Advisory Board unanimously recommended them Wednesday. They now go to a legislative committee for approval.
"The sizable fines proposed here reflect the breadth of hazards found
during our inspections and the fact that the company had been cited
for similar conditions in the past," said Robert Kowalski, OSHA's area
director in Bridgeport, Conn.
Workplace safety professionals who want the ability to interact with each other more than just once a year at trade shows and conferences now have a new resource.
OSHA will focus on safety and health management systems during the 10th annual "Stateline Safety Workshop" slated for September 17 at the Holiday Inn Express, 3100 Wellington Place, Janesville, Wis.
The recalled devices can operate when the lock-off (safety) is in the
locked position, and when the trigger is not pulled and the contact
trip is depressed.
This year marks the 20th anniversary for the Chicagoland Safety & Health Conference, co-sponsored by the OSHA and slated for September 15-18 at Northern Illinois University, 1120 E. Diehl Road in Naperville.
While AEDs are increasingly being installed in public gathering places such as stadiums, shopping malls, hotels, airports, and bus terminals, their use in the workplace is just beginning to gain momentum, said Brian Trusky, vice president of loss prevention at Moss & Associates.
A public hearing is set for Aug. 28 in Salem to discuss elimination of the minimum $100 penalty for failing to create a committee and a change that lets these employers hold safety meetings with fewer paperwork requirements.
Since Friday, the agency has followed Subpart R of the steel erection standard for these issues. Construction deaths at the Las Vegas City Center project, shown here, spurred congressional pressure to beef up OSHA fall standards.
Major goals of the partnership are to keep the DART (cases with days away from work, restricted or transferred) rate below the national average for the commercial construction industry and to further reduce this level of recordable injuries by at least four percent annually.
It is critical for employers to ensure employees assisting with the lift are properly trained--including signaling, load limits, and rigging techniques--and are aware of the hazards of operating a crane.
With springtime comes the surge of construction activity—an exciting time, and possibly a dangerous time, too. Lots of new sites begin work as soon as the severe weather breaks. New crews, different trades, and subcontractors work in close proximity with seasoned workers, temporary employees, and even interns.Multicultural and -lingual sites are common.In such settings, how do you know who is at risk for injury?
An investigation of the Philadelphia facility resulted in three willful and 51 serious violations.
A10 Committee members will lead the discussion and answer questions during the event, designed to introduce components of the new standard and how it can be implemented in construction and demolition operations. Last week, NAHB President Sandy Dunn said the standard, in it present form, "will be useless for the construction industry."
Inspectors found serious safety violations with employees operating cranes with broken, missing, and leaking parts, and the agency determined that monthly safety inspections were not being performed.
"What caught my eye was just the unprofessionalism of the climbers," the group's executive director says.
A state worker who had been hit four times by moving vehicles testified to Iowa legislators earlier this year about why the bill was needed.