Archive for the ‘OSHA’ Category

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has moved the development of regulations to control combustible dust hazards to its long-term agenda despite pleas from the Chemical Safety Board to fast track the rules, according to a report from the Associated Press. Combustible dust can be generated from most substances—plastics, metals, chemicals and foods—especially when [...]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Form 300A, Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, must be posted in a conspicuous location by Feb. 1 of each year and left up for viewing until April 30. The summary lists only numbers of affected employees by category. Companies that operate in more than one location must [...]

The 90-day review period for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revised Hazard Communication Standard (HAZCOM) passed yesterday (Jan. 23, 2012) with no approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which must review all regulations for economic impact and other issues. The OMB Web site, however, indicates that its review will be [...]

The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has ordered AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of Dallas, Texas-based Southwest Airlines Co., to reinstate a former pilot who was fired after reporting numerous mechanical concerns. The agency also has ordered that the pilot be paid more than $1 million in back wages plus interest and [...]

Willful violations, with fines of up to $70,000, occur when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) deems the accident to have been due to complete indifference to or disregard for OSHA safety standards. The agency just released its list of the Top 10 willful and repeat violations, which are: Excavation protective system, 84 violations [...]

Even though the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) top dog thinks they're still too low, fines for serious violations by the agency in 2011 shot up to $2,132 from $1,053 a year earlier, thanks to a legislative tweak that reduced the number of penalty reductions available to employers for factors such as the number [...]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released its annual list of the most frequently cited standards violations, along with its list of the most heavily fined OSHA standards violations. The most frequently cited violations comprise fall protection; scaffolding; hazard communication standard; lockout/tagout; electrical; powered industrial trucks; ladders; electrical systems design; and machines. The [...]

Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued no standard on workplace violence, it has cited certain companies for failure to prevent violence under section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act, generally known as the general duty clause. Stepping into the breach to prevent future incidents of violence, especially homicide, OSHA has instructed its [...]

A smartphone app introduced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to measure heat safety in work environments reportedly cost $200,000 to develop and returns inaccurate readings of temperatures. Of course, this information comes courtesy of a hacker who runs a job board called gun.jo and whose name is Rich Jones. "When I first [...]

Speaking as one of the keynoters at the National Safety Council (NSC) Congress and Expo in Philadelphia today, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) chief David Michaels spent a lot of time defending OSHA regulations as not being "job-killers" and then admitted that the one proposed OSHA regulation drawing the most flak—the Injury and Illness [...]