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Exit routes are a big deal when it comes to safety inspections. If your emergency exits are blocked for whatever reason, inspectors aren’t going to have much sympathy for you. Recently, inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited discount retailers Dollar Tree and Dollar General for repeat exit route violations. Accordingly, the […]
Yesterday, we reviewed controversy over the effectiveness of OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP). Today, we explain how the SVEP enforcement process works. OSHA says that the SVEP is intended to focus enforcement efforts on recalcitrant employers who demonstrate indifference to the health and safety of their employees through willful, repeated, or failure-to-abate violations relating […]
Following through on a court ruling, the EPA has issued a final cancellation order for sulfoxaflor, a widely used pesticide active ingredient manufactured by Dow AgroSciences and registered by the EPA in May 2013.
At Georgia Power, protecting lone workers is serious business, according to its safety and health general manager. Hamilton Hardin, safety and health general manager, says that Georgia Power makes every effort to ensure that lone workers, like all employees, are treated like "prized assets." Among other things, that means they get comprehensive safety training and […]
The EPA has issued its first biannual update of its work on a proposal for a final rule that would subject facilities holding hazardous substances to the same requirements applying to facilities holding threshold amounts of oil. The update indicates that the proposal is still in its early stages, and therefore, any views on what […]
The Trump administration’s plan to wipe major environmental regulations issued by the Obama administration off the books has caused the courts to ponder how it should address petitions to either uphold or vacate these rules. Specifically, even if a rule has been lawfully issued by an agency (under Obama), why should the court bother to […]
Yesterday, we provided tips for improving workplace lighting to boost safety and productivity. Today, we offer some tips from Facebook on indoor lighting as well as advice from DOE on outdoor lighting. Facebook, which is always a consistent innovator in technology and media, is now leading the way in energy efficiency, says BLR Legal Editor […]
Subject matter experts (SMEs) bring expertise and credibility to training, “ensure that the content really hits the mark,” and increase the adoption rate by learners, but trainers must engage SMEs in the process to ensure success, says Kendra Lee, president of KLA Group (www.klagroup.com). In today’s Advisor, Lee gives expert advice. “Getting them involved can […]
Accident prevention training is essential for any job—but especially for the really hazardous ones where training is mandated by OSHA. Two employees were welding in a pit at the base of an elevator shaft. The pit was less than 5 feet deep and measured 12 feet by 18 feet across. The floor of the pit […]