Employers cannot rely on online or video training tools as the sole source of training because physical manipulation of actual components of PPE (as opposed to virtual components of PPE) must be part of the program, the agency notes.
The DOL Solicitor’s Office has alerted parties they have until May 19 to supplement their comments made in OSHA’s recent public hearing and until June 18 to file comments about the hearing testimony and evidence in the record.
The U.S. Department of Energy has issued Preliminary Notices of Violation to three contractors -- Stanford University, Pacific Underground Construction, Inc., and Western Allied Mechanical, Inc. -- for violations in September 2007 of the department’s worker safety and health regulations.
"The significant hazard of a four-story plunge was exacerbated by the lack of required lifesaving rescue equipment," said C. William Freeman III, OSHA's area director in Hartford, Conn.
At its April 16 meeting, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is expected to adopt an amended Section 1598 that requires workers on foot who are exposed to vehicular traffic during work on public streets and highways to wear garments that meet ANSI/ISEA 107-2004.
The total penalty includes an other-than-serious proposed fine of $3,500 because the company allegedly failed to notify OSHA of the fatality within eight hours of the incident.
In the latest inspection, employees allegedly were working on scaffolding, in an aerial lift, and on the roof at a worksite in Torrington, Conn., with exposure to falls of up to 22 feet. Also, electrical, overhead, and chemical hazard communication deficiencies were identified at the site.
Rigger (Basic) is the first level in a three-level program. Development work on the Intermediate and Advanced Rigger levels is nearing completion and will follow during the year.
Among other things, the agency's new, 51-page guidance document explains how to use Assigned Protection Factors numbers and Maximum Use Concentration limits, per the 2006 revisions to its Respiratory Protection standard.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and various home heating furnace, boiler, and high-temperature plastic vent pipe (HTPV) manufacturers are urging home owners who have not yet responded to the previously-announced 1998 recall, to do so immediately. After May 1, 2009, the remedy consumers receive will change.
The Integrated Starter Alternator Motor (I-SAM) is a combined starter, generator and drive motor that cuts CO2 emissions and fuel consumption in wheel loaders, such as the L220F Hybrid shown here, and heavy trucks.
Frost & Sullivan's Chemicals and Materials Research & Consulting practice predicts the country's demand for apparel, gloves, footwear, and head, vision, hearing, and respiratory protection will reach $1.7 billion in 2015.
More than a million U.S. workers are exposed to potentially harmful vibrations from the tools they use at work, says Joseph D. McGarry, president of Gloves-Online.com.
OSHA has revised its Field Operations Manual to provide OSHA compliance officers with a single comprehensive resource of updated guidance in implementing the agency's mission to more effectively protect employees from occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.
Statistics show the percentage of injuries involving lacerations is considerably higher for the construction industry than for all other industries. And yet, despite the availability of comfortable, cut-resistant gloves, it is not unusual for most construction workers to go gloveless for at least part of the work day.
Shawmut Design and Construction, an employee-owned construction management firm with headquarters in Boston and offices in New York, Providence, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and New Haven, recently completed a three-story vertical expansion project at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence that added 110 beds for cardiac intensive care and general medical/surgical patients. The project was safely completed five months ahead of schedule thanks to extensive pre-planning and the company's intense focus on safe operations, John Neil, Shawmut's managing director of safety, said during a Jan. 9, 2009, interview with the editor of Occupational Health & Safety. Neil joined Shawmut in 2007 after a 20 years with Liberty Mutual, starting as a loss prevention consultant and eventually rising to Practice Leader and Director -- Construction.
The effect of the federal economic stimulus package on the construction industry will be the main topic discussed at a meeting of OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH), April 14-17, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
Working to boost the economy while protecting human health and the environment, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) a $400,000 grant to help retrofit construction equipment that is leased to construction projects throughout the Northeast.
Issued by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, the 197-page report estimates 74,000 deaths per year are linked to hazardous substances encountered at work -- 10 times more people than are dying in workplace accidents.
The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) announced in a recent news release that it has developed a new e-course, titled "Orientation on Health and Safety for New Workers," that provides a general introduction to workplace health and safety to new workers.