OSHA is making noise about noise and industrial employers need to be thinking about how they might retrofit plants as a result. By FDRsafety Senior Advisor Mike Taubitz. Read the full article.
In its second course reversal in a week, OSHA has withdrawn a proposal to step up recordkeeping requirements for ergonomic injuries, naturally raising questions about what else the agency might be rethinking. My suggestion is to look next at the …
OSHA announced Wednesday it was withdrawing a proposed interpretation of noise standards that could have presented some employers with onerous costs to retrofit equipment. It is the first major about-face for OSHA since it began a dramatic ramp-up of enforcement …
In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, President Obama announced an initiative to review ineffective government regulations that hinder the economy. The President said the purpose of the review was to “make sure we avoid excessive, …
Job Safety Analysis (JSA) is a long-standing foundation of the safety profession. Many jobs have low to moderate risk which is controlled by standardized work methods or instructions that could include procedures, training, awareness, PPE, etc. Such jobs may only …
As OSHA pushes forward with tougher enforcement, the critical role played by the legal office of the Department of Labor is not always fully appreciated. The office of the Solicitor of Labor is not a part of OSHA, but handles …
OSHA is making noise about noise and industrial employers need to be thinking about how they might retrofit plants as a result. So says my colleague Mike Taubitz in the cover story of this month’s OHS magazine. More from Mike, …
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Many organizations are encouraging employees to lose weight and stop smoking in hopes of scoring a win-win-win: the workers get healthier, the organization experiences fewer insurance claims, and less work time is lost to sickness. But FDRsafety CEO Fred Rine writes that fewer organizations are taking advantage of similar savings they could obtain if they took the same approach to employee safety off the job. Read the full article.
OSHA is delivering on its promise to organizations it considers to be “severe violators” – it is going to visit other facilities the organization owns to see if there are problems there as well. One example is U.S. Minerals Co., …