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SPCC Infographic: What Type Of Plan Do You Need?
So, what’s a “qualified facility?” A qualified facility is one that meets the following Tier I or Tier II qualified facility criteria: A Tier I qualified facility is one that has no individual aboveground oil storage container with a capacity greater than 5,000 gal and that has had no single discharge of oil in harmful […]
Safety Monitoring of Remote and Lone Employees
Protecting the safety of lone or remote workers isn’t easy, but it’s your responsibility. There are many employees in the workplace who work alone or in remote areas where injuries and illnesses can occur, resulting in delays in emergency response or medical assistance. They include people who work outside normal business hours, such as: Janitors […]
OSHA Regulatory Agenda for 2013 and Beyond
What’s on OSHA’s agenda this year? Here’s a sneak peak. Annual Survey of Illnesses and Injuries, Electronic Submission—OSHA’s proposed rule will require the roughly 80,000 organizations that respond to the Agency’s annual survey of injuries and illnesses to submit their OSHA 300 Log and Summary data for the survey in electronic format. Backover Injuries and […]
CERCLA’s Petroleum Exclusion
Q&A on Safety Training for New Hires
You have just hired new workers and you want them to become familiar with their new tasks quickly but safely. In today’s Advisor, we provide answers to several common questions about new employee orientation and training. Q: Is safety training or orientation needed for temporary workers? A: When an employer hires workers from a temp […]
BMPs for Reusing Your 55-Gallon Drums
Illness and Injury Records as Evidence of OSHA Violation
Is it possible that your injury and illness records could be used against you as evidence of OSHA violations? The answer may surprise you. In a BLR webinar entitled "OSHA Recordkeeping: What’s Recordable and What’s Not," Adele L. Abrams, Esq., an attorney and nationally recognized expert on occupational safety and health, offered insight into the […]
Inspection Requirements of Hazardous Waste Containers
Other Recordable Cases" or Simple First Aid? How to Tell
OSHA doesn’t require you to record injuries that only require first aid. But it isn’t always easy to determine when an incident is recordable and when it isn’t. At most workplaces, injuries requiring only first aid are commonplace. But sometimes there’s a fine line between types of cases OSHA considers "other recordable" and those that […]