Month: February 2016
OSHA Reschedules Hearing On Beryllium Rule
An OSHA hearing originally scheduled for this week on a proposed rule on occupational exposure to the chemical beryllium has been pushed back to March 21, according to the agency. The March hearing will bring together stakeholders to participate in the rulemaking process by providing…
Report Examines State-By-State Workplace Safety, Health Risks
A new report by Underwriters Laboratories offers an assessment of workplace safety and health on a state-by-state basis, aiding businesses in identifying issues that can be managed through health and safety frameworks and prevent workplace injury, illness and death. “There is growing recognition among businesses…
Attorneys: New OSHA Whistleblower Guidance Favors Employees
The bar has dropped for OSHA investigators to determine whether a workplace retaliation complaint has merit, according to an assessment by occupational safety and health attorneys, leaving employers more vulnerable to whistleblower investigations. Under recently revised whistleblower investigation guidance, OSHA investigators no longer have to…
Safety Engineer Group Urges OSHA To Require Workplace Safety, Health Program Adoption
The American Society of Safety Engineers is “disappointed” OSHA has not completed a rulemaking that requires employers to adopt safety and health management programs, but sees updated guidelines on such programs as a positive step forward. According to comments submitted on OSHA’s new voluntary guidelines…
OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements
OSHA on Jan. 1, 2015 implemented new reporting and recordkeeping requirements mandating that all work-related fatalities be reported to OSHA or state OSH agencies within eight hours, and all work-related hospitalizations, amputations and eye losses within 24 hours. A log of all injuries and deaths within…
OSHA Strikes Deal With Trucking Association On Hazard Reduction
OSHA on Monday announced that it has renewed an alliance with the Industrial Trucking Association to minimize worker injuries and fatalities from industrial truck tip-overs and “struck-by” hazards. According to OSHA, the alliance will allow for development of resources and training on hazards that lead…
