"Employees and management at the Wallingford facility take a proactive approach to safety and health, so they can identify and remove work-related hazards before they harm employees," said Marthe Kent, OSHA's regional administrator for New England.
The company was also cited for failing to implement a mechanical integrity program for pressure relief devices and fixed equipment, and failing to correct deficiencies associated with vessel and piping wall thicknesses.
The writing of this article follows on the heels of a meeting between the author and the chief deputy attorney general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The purpose of that meeting was to investigate and discuss the circumstances of a fatal Pennsylvania mining accident.
To reduce the numbers, the agency has launched a special emphasis program designed to identify and reduce the workplace hazards that are causing or likely to cause amputations.
EPA Region 7 is removing the last of several aging containers of pesticides from a Monroe County, Mo., agricultural chemical business, finishing a Superfund cleanup operation that owners of the business had been ordered to complete four years ago.
Employee exposure to electrocution and being caught in unguarded or unexpectedly energized driers and other machinery were also among the dangers OSHA found.
More than 3 percent of all full-time workers age 15 and over were at their primary job at 2 a.m. on the day the American Time Use Survey was conducted.
"Employers must remain dedicated to keeping the workplace safe and healthful, or face close scrutiny by this agency," said Diane Turek, director of OSHA's Chicago North Area Office in Des Plaines, Ill.
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New RWD procedures and documentation service enables petroleum producers and refiners to proactively respond to the OSHA mandate to reduce or eliminate workplace chemical hazards.
A new resource on the "Prevention through Design" (PtD) initiative was released May 1 as a special edition of the Journal of Safety Research.
This summer, Americans can expect an increase in the number of air quality alert days, as a result of EPA's new ozone health standard.
Review of applications for the position, which heads the new Office of Emergency Management, will begin May 21.
It is hard to argue against the importance of the need for eyewashes and showers in the workplace, given the reported injuries to and incident statistics of workers who require medical treatment of some kind. Take eye injuries, for example—there are 800,000 reported eye injuries in the American workforce each year, many of which are caused by exposure to chemical hazards.
Senior managers have become increasingly aware of Safety’s potential returns, well beyond loss reduction. And Safety culture is an especially hot topic among leaders who sense something is missing— that performance could be better.
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration, through its Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP), sets high standards for companies. The challenge, and the reward, is to have safe working environments that not only meet government standards, but also exceed them to the point that your company’s safety program can be self-sustaining and become a model for your industry.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced that it will convene a public meeting on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, in Danvers, Mass., to review the final CSB investigation report on the causes of the November 2006 explosion at the CAI/Arnel ink and paint manufacturing plant.
It outlines simple steps for addressing the problem and evaluating the effectiveness of the employer's program.
"Amputation is a very real threat when machines lack the proper safety features," said John J. Deifer, OSHA's area director in Savannah, Ga.
"I want the GAO to take a good hard look at injury and illness reporting because frankly, it's a system that seems all too easy to game," said Senator Patty Murray.