Outdoor workers should be protected against excessive heat exposure, and particularly if they are wearing protective apparel.
Since the inception of the NFPA 70E 2000 Edition 10 years ago, there has been a major evolution in our understanding of the electric arc flash hazard.
"One means of preventing hazards is for employers to establish an effective comprehensive workplace safety and health program that involves their employees in proactively evaluating, identifying, and eliminating hazards," said Robert Kulick, OSHA's regional administrator in New York.
“An air carrier’s maintenance program can’t function without a good system to determine compliance with airworthiness directives,” said FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt. “Problems with the AD system are inconsistent with an airline’s continued safe operation.”
The agency decided submitted comments weren't "significant adverse comments" because the commenters had not understood what MSHA meant when it added "any other accident."
The sixth annual event by New York City's Department of Buildings includes events in each of the five boroughs. Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri and others visited an 11-story building under construction in Brooklyn on Monday.
In Senate testimony today, OSHA's assistant secretary listed many updates that are needed to make his agency's inspectors an effective force for change. Does Congress have the will, or the daring, to reform the law?
"Each one of these inspections resulting from anonymous complaints reflects a serious disregard for the safety and health of the miners who work at these operations," said Joseph A. Main, assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health. “What's especially troubling is that one of the complaints came in just days after the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine."
The latest semiannual regulatory agenda does not advance the rulemaking except to give an October 2010 date to complete analyzing comments submitted in 2008. EPA's agenda says NPRMs will be issued in July 2011 to enhance pesticide protection for applicators and agricultural workers.
Michael Silverstein, M.D., MPH, assistant director of Washington state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, is the new chairman.
You'll find it easy to find out about new regulations and workplace safety campaigns in Europe, including the safe maintenance campaign launching April 28.
An additional study on inherently safer process technology may follow this one by the National Academy of Sciences specifically looking at how to reduce the risk of methyl isocyanate at the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute, W.Va.
EEOC Houston Regional Attorney Jim Sacher said, “Employees have an absolute right to be free from discriminatory harassment in the workplace. The EEOC will vigorously challenge violations of this statutory right.”
The bulk of the proposed total penalty involves two repeat violations for failing to provide proper load backrest extensions and to take trucks with safety defects out of service, which together carry a potential fine of $50,000.
OSHA will conduct its chat concerning the agency's regulatory agenda Monday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. MSHA will host its Tuesday from 10 to 11 a.m. EDT.
The settlement requires Hovnanian to develop improved pollution prevention plans for each construction site, conduct additional site inspections, and promptly correct any problems detected.
Food and Drug Administration has announced a new initiative to ensure that caregivers and patients safely use complex medical devices in the home.
Are we seeing the new face of OSHA? David Michaels said the agency is doing what it can to administratively raise the dollar amounts of its penalties and adopting a new structure for penalty reductions based on the company's employee count.
A May 5 signing ceremony at DOL headquarters in Washington, D.C. is well timed because OSHA will require certification of some lifting personnel in the cranes and derricks standard it is expected to issue in July 2010.
And in recognition of its 175th anniversary this year, the commercial property insurer is making longstanding clients eligible for a membership credit rate of 20 percent.