New OSHA eTool for Power Worker Safety
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says about 80 workers die from electrical shock annually while working on electrical equipment or associated utility operations. To help foreclose such fatalities, OSHA has published the Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standard eTool. Late deaths have illustrated the risks of working with electric power, according to federal [...]
Is forklift inspections are OSHA requirements?
If you’ve forklifts in your facility, you acknowledge that (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) OSHA asks them to be inspected in front of use. But what does OSHA truly require? The federal agency demands for daily review of forklifts are in 1910.178(q)(7). But, OSHA doesn’t require that the day by day forklift inspections be documented. [...]
OSHA calling for employers to track MSDs
Despite protests from the business sector community, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lately revealed its proposition to reestablish a column on the OSHA 300 Injury and Illness Log that would demand employers to take down work-related musculoskeletal troubles individually. David Michaels, OSHA chief who’s a longtime protagonist of an enforceable ergonomics standard, stated that [...]
ASSE urged OSHA to finalize Hazard Communication Standard regulation
President of the ASSE Christopher Patton recently sent OSHA chief David Michaels a letter asking to support the organization’s proposal about implementing changes to the agency’s existing Hazard Communications Standard, which will harmonize chemical hazard communications around the globe and increase workplace safety according to Patton. Patton gives credits to OSHA for enforcing the HCS [...]
2010 OSHA’s Regulatory Priorities
The 2010 hazardous chemicals and substances play top roles in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) list of regulatory priorities indicates upcoming OSHA actions, primarily rule making. Crystalline silica, the inhalation of substance dust can cause silicosis, lung disease, and lung cancer. Research estimated that there are about 7,000 new cases of chronic silicosis every [...]
