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Safety is a process, and as such, needs to be managed. This section offers resources to create a viable safety program, sell it to senior management, train supervisors and employees in using it, and then track and report your progress. Look also for ways to advance your own skills in these areas, both for your current job, and those that follow.
Chemical manufacturer AB Specialty Silicones LLC has agreed to pay $1.3 million in penalties in connection with a May 2019 explosion and fire at its Waukegan, Illinois, plant that claimed the lives of four workers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced October 2. Following OSHA’s investigation, it proposed penalties totaling $1,591,176 for four […]
On episode 224 of EHS On Tap, Lynn Hennighausen, National Trainer for Mental Health First Aid, talks about the importance of workplace mental health awareness and suicide prevention.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced on October 1 it completed the restructuring of its regional offices. OSHA’s most significant change is the creation of a Birmingham, Alabama, regional office responsible for employer assistance, inspection, and enforcement in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and the Florida Panhandle. Kentucky and Tennessee are the […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered a Maugansville, Maryland, trucking company to reinstate a driver and pay nearly $30,000 in back wages and damages after finding the employer wrongly terminated the worker for refusing to drive an oversize load in an unsafe manner, the agency announced September 27. OSHA investigators found that TrueStart […]
Hailiang Copper Texas Inc., a Sealy, Texas, manufacturer, faces a $253,750 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fine after an employee suffered serious arm injuries while trying to clear debris during the manufacturing of copper alloy products, the agency announced September 26. Agency investigators determined an employee suffered serious injuries that resulted in a partial […]
In this installment of EHSDA Shorts, Jeramy Hurt, Director of EHS Solutions of Ideagen, Camille Oakes, President and CEO of Better Safety, and Meagan Garrett, Director of Engineering – Regulatory and Government Affairs of Climate Control Group, talk about generational attitudes toward safety.
A new measurement index developed by Avetta and the National Safety Council (NSC) takes a systems-based approach to determine health and safety weak spots within an organization’s supply chain. The Safety Maturity IndexTM (SMI) is expected to be available to select North American clients in March 2025. Scott DeBow, ARM, Principal of Health/Safety & Environment […]
On episode 223 of EHS On Tap, Daniel Glucksman, Senior Policy Director at the International Safety Equipment Association, talks about the status of heat safety regulations and their impact on worker safety.
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine OSHA’s respiratory protection requirements. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) respiratory protection standard (29 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) §1910.134) is one of its top 10 most-cited standards. In […]
South Marine Systems of Westlake, Ohio, faces $164,540 in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines after a large fire erupted in the cargo hold of the Cuyahoga, a commercial iron ore vessel moored at the Port of Ashtabula, the agency announced September 16. According to OSHA, workers narrowly avoided disaster after a large fire […]