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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), an independent federal agency that investigates serious chemical incidents, has announced an updated mission that will guide its activities going forward. Keep reading for details.
The work group at your facility best able to see safety problems coming may be your maintenance workers. But are you listening to them? They work in quiet, cordoned off areas of your shop floor, or in an area of their own, separated from the hustle and bustle of production. Frequently, they work off-hours, and […]
Federal OSHA does not require employers to record injuries that only require first aid on OSHA injury and illness forms (OSHA Form 300 and 301 Incident Reports). At most workplaces, injuries or illnesses requiring only first aid are commonplace.
Executive Order (EO) 13924, issued in response to COVID-19 by President Donald Trump on May 19, 2020, authorized federal agencies to provide regulatory relief to support recovery of the economy. Trump characterized this order as giving agencies “tremendous power” to cut regulations seen to hinder economic recovery.
The EPA has filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to either remand without vacatur or remand with vacatur certain provisions in the Agency’s final rule governing the management and disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCRs) from electric utilities (CCR rule, April 17, 2015, FR). Both industry and environmental […]
The EPA is facing double-barrel lawsuits—one barrel from the attorneys general of three states, the second from five farmworker advocacy groups—over the Agency’s delay in making it mandatory for farmworker employers to train their employees about the contents of the Agency’s 2015 revisions to the Worker Protection Standard ((WPS), November 2, 2015, Federal Register (FR)). […]
In a positive response to an industry petition, the EPA has issued a final rule that will postpone by 2 years certain effluent limitations (ELs) and pretreatment standards for existing sources (PSESs) that the Agency promulgated in 2015 for the Steam Electric Power Generating Point Source Category.
Responding to concerns expressed by retailers of certain residential woodburning heaters, the EPA is proposing to provide these entities time to sell these devices beyond what was allowed in the Agency’s 2015 amendments to its New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) covering a range of heaters.
If you’re like most EHS managers, you’re increasingly concerned these days about defending the value and cost-effectiveness of training programs. You need to get good value for your safety training dollars. In the context of training, "cost-effective" means providing solutions to identified needs (compliance, safety, etc.) at a cost that is a good value for […]