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According to a recent study, only 7 percent of employees said they eat more healthful foods at work than they do at home. Our Safety Training Tips editor has some tips for helping your workers eat better. The Peapod Biz Bites Survey, sponsored by Peapod Business Delivery, suggests that about two out of three employees […]
The National Safety Council (NSC) has released a new report, Making the Case for Contractor Management: Examining the Safety Benefits of 3rd Party Management. The report includes an analysis of hypotheses to assess the safety benefits of contractor safety prequalification programs for participating suppliers, contractors, and vendors. The contractors involved were found to have better […]
Promptly upon EPA’s publication of its Clean Power Plan (CPP) in the Federal Register, a coalition of 23 states requested that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stay the rule and consider its petition for review. The CPP requires that states take actions to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from existing […]
Q. The wrong feedstock was placed in Tank A which holds a different one. The resulting mixed ignitable material (D001) is not usable. We intend to move this mixture out of Tank A quickly. Is Tank A subject to RCRA, or is it still a product tank?
As part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, many employers encourage and enable workers to participate in volunteer opportunities in disaster-stricken areas. But before you sign off on letting a work crew head for Houston or Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, make sure that you are not putting your workers’ health and […]
Does your written HazCom plan include all the information required by OSHA? Here’s a quick review of essential content. A hazard communication plan doesn’t have to be long or spell out your program in detail, but it must be well thought out, clear, and comprehensive. Your written HazCom plan is the first thing a compliance […]
On April 6, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a pair of stakeholder meetings on the agency’s heat illness prevention activities and whistleblower protections in healthcare (87 Federal Register (FR) 19997, 19997). Both meetings will be held virtually via Zoom. The stakeholder meeting on OSHA’s initiatives to protect workers from heat-related hazards is on […]
The Road to Zero Coalition, managed by the National Safety Council (NSC), has announced three additional recipients of the second annual Safe System Innovation Grants through the Road to Zero initiative.
The EPA only recently issued almost all the remaining area designations for the 2015 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone (only eight counties in the San Antonio, Texas, area have not been designated). Now, with the ink barely dry on those designations, the Agency is facing yet another Clean Air Act (CAA) deadline […]