OSHA’s proposed Injury and Illness Protection Program, known as I2P2, apparently won’t be seeing the light of day anytime soon, if ever, and that is a good thing for workers and employers.
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The SEIU is taking advantage of an OSHA ruling allowing union representatives to go along on OSHA inspections even if the union doesn’t represent company workers.
OSHA is concerned about an alarming increase in deaths during work on cellphone towers and is pointing to fall protection problems as a major contributor.
OSHA said it would do better when the GAO took the agency to task for failing to adequately supervise states with state plans. The fallout is being felt.
Earlier this month, the GAO released its findings on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Compliance, Safety Accountability program, known as CSA.
An ongoing concern about OSHA’s protection of workers is its slow pace in creating or updating needed standards. A prime example is combustible dust.
A key principle governing use of PPE was reaffirmed recently in a Washington state case involving a bank guard who was stabbed while not wearing body armor.
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OSHA’s proposal to publish workplace injury and illness reports from larger companies may sound like a good idea at first, but there are good reasons not to.