"Failing to implement procedures to prevent injury from unexpected energization or startup of machinery and equipment is a leading cause of workplace injury," said OSHA Area Director Rob Medlock in Cleveland.
The Justice Department announced Monday that a federal court jury convicted Keith Gordon-Smith and his asbestos abatement company, Gordon-Smith Contracting Inc., of violating CAA asbestos work practice standards and lying to hide the violations.
The meeting will discuss NIOSH's work on a performance standard for CBRN respirators. The project is Docket Number 082-A, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Combination Respirator Unit.
Two units of the federal Technical Support Working Group are hosting PPE Conference 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Nov. 30-Dec. 3. TSWG is the interagency R&D anti-terrorism program.
The good and bad about the proposed rule published in May will be open for discussion Jan. 18 at DOL headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The three authors of the paper published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health conducted the research because there have been few studies on welders' exposures, especially in construction.
The company's Lorain location, which employs about 250 people, has been inspected 25 times and received 59 safety violations since 1999.
Two workers died of burns after an explosion in May involving ammonium perchlorate and n-Butanol.
The 48-page draft will replace the 2007 strategic plan guiding R&D by 25 participating organizations.
Companies can use it to assess their needs for various types of protective equipment, from head to toe, based on a hazard assessment.
In this webinar, e-Hazard.com's Hugh Hoagland and three other experts will discuss best practices for companies and will explain how they can comply with the new edition before it is published in October 2011.
These are the next hurdles to bridge, and manufacturers are doing just that as they develop next-generation respirators for an expanded base of users.
Loose-fitting powered and supplied-air respirators offer increased comfort and productivity -- a better experience for all concerned.
Your employees need special support in cold situations and more yet in emergency cold situations.
A long-awaited modernization of the general industry regulations has good elements, as well as some bad features and some omissions.
OSHA has long used the 90 dB Permissible Exposure Limit to define maximum "safe" noise, although much of the rest of the world disagrees.
OSHA initiated an investigation April 21 when a worker made contact with a high-voltage power line while tree cutting. As a result of the investigation, the company was cited for two willful, seven serious, and three other-than-serious violations.
"Even after a prior incident in which a worker was seriously injured, and multiple warnings from its business partners and a former employee, this employer still decided against implementing safety measures," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels.
An occupational health concern common among all Deepwater Horizon response workers was heat stress from work in a hot and humid environment.
"Falling is the great safety hazard for workers on roofing projects, and B.O.S.S. Construction has demonstrated a pattern of disregard for its workers' safety by failing to ensure fall protection is in place on jobsites," said OSHA Area Director Jule Hovi.