Preventive maintenance and safety are disciplines not typically seen as closely related, but bridging the two silos can help identify low probability risks with severe injury potential. A risk assessment of your facility and processes, talking with maintenance workers and …
While appropriate use of lockout/tagout is critical to safe operation, OSHA sometimes has been going too far in ramping up lockout enforcement, as shown in a recent case where a violation was withdrawn. Companies who have been hit with lockout …
As mentioned in a previous post OSHA is warning companies not to structure rewards programs — whether intentionally or not — so that they encourage employees not to report injuries or illnesses. An example might be offering the chance to …
It’s easy for safety professionals to keep their gaze on the trees rather than the forest. There are plenty of pressing daily problems to solve and it becomes easy to push strategic thinking to the back burner. For those who …
A federal appeals court has struck down recordkeeping violations issued by OSHA against a petrochemical construction and maintenance company for allegedly failing to report workplace injuries that in many cases occurred years before the citations were issued. The ruling goes …
A federal appeals court decision has pushed back against what appears to be an attempt by OSHA to expand the definition of a “work-related” injury. The case involved an OSHA citation against Caterpillar Logistics Services for allegedly failing to record …
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OSHA is warning employers to be careful about rewards programs that could unintentionally – or perhaps even intentionally – encourage employees not to report injuries. In a recent communication, OSHA cited as an example a program in which employers created …
Dramatic accidents involving long falls or amputations in machines are often what makes headlines when it comes to non-fatal safety issues. But the costliest disabling injuries for industry, at least when it comes to Workers Compensation, involve something much more …
There are more than a few old jokes featuring an elephant and an ant and often they’re about the little guy winning against all odds. But the following story about another kind of elephant (Nevada OSHA) and an ant (a …