To earn a certificate, participants must complete a minimum of seven courses totaling at least 68 hours of in-class training.
After a construction worker died being swept away in a sewer, federal investigators are trying to determine what went wrong and whether or not any OSHA violations occurred.
Company executives christened a gleaming new Training & Customer Experience Center where workers can get hands-on experience with confined space entry and rescue, communication tower climbing/rescue, servicing a wind energy nacelle, installing and using fall anchorages on a residential roof, and rescuing a co-worker from an oil rig’s catwalk and pipe rack.
This triggers the 90-day countdown to the deadline for filing comments on a proposal that is the most important regulatory action by OSHA this year, so far.
Cal/OSHA and the state Labor Commissioner's Office are two of the agencies participating in it.
OSHA worked with more than 300 employers and labor organizations on the Sept. 3 stand-down at building sites in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska.
Working at height, exposure to harmful dusts, and sanitation are three areas the inspectors will check, according to the agency's Sept. 2 announcement.
Violations issued after BSA worker fell 16 feet due to guardrail collapse in 2011.
Four massive steel gates arrived on Aug. 20 from the Italian port of Trieste. They'll be installed in the new locks on the canal's Atlantic side.
The proposed rule would update the current permissible exposure limit, which was set in 1971, and would apply to construction and general industry, including hydraulic fracturing operations at gas drilling sites. Several key stakeholders expressed support.
OSHA announced the alliance and its new website for this purpose on Aug. 22.
About 500 workers in Britain die annually from the effects of inhaling dusts from concrete, wood, sandstone, gympsum, or sandstone.
The forum taking place Monday morning, Aug. 26, will be moderated by VPPPA board member Stephen Gauthier and is scheduled to be attended by OSHA Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels.
There are 12 new members on the council, the elected body representing the IOSH membership.
The Illinois Onsite Safety and Health Consultation Program is also a partner in the project.
OSHA, trade associations, and employers in eight states are scheduled to conduct one-hour construction safety stand-downs on that day.
Oct. 1’s third keynote session, a new addition to the educational program this year, looks like a "must attend" session of its own: the Prescription Drug Keynote.
The agency had announced in February that a design error caused cracks in giant concrete pontoons for the new State Route 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington.
Safety is not a bolt-on program that can be managed after the project begins; safety should be integrated into how work is performed, as are cost, schedule and quality.
The members' emergency response backgrounds and their excellent reaction times to incidents are some of the team's biggest contributions to the project's safety program.