Articles Tagged with ''compliance''

The European Union’s chemical management law known as REACH requires chemical manufacturers and importers to assess risks and describe conditions under which their chemical substances can be safely used. 

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced that in the last two years, the Obama Administration has issued as many imminent hazard orders placing unsafe bus and truck companies out of service as in the previous ten years combined.

Designed for safety compliance and exposure monitoring, the Casella CEL-620B sound meter digitally measures sound level in factories, refineries, construction sites or other workplaces where noise is a concern.

Last month I introduced you to Scott A. Snook’s term practical drift, which he coined in his root cause analysis of the accidental shoot down of two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters resulting in the loss of 26 peacekeepers. 

The National Prevention Council released the National Prevention Strategy in June 2011 as mandated by the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded more than 18,000 injuries involving electrical shock or electrical burn between 2003 and 2009, and 1,573 electrical fatalities.

Building permanent walls is definitely one way to quiet things down — and guard against bothersome and potentially harmful noise.

How often have you seen workers fail to comply with safe practices that are clearly targeted in the safety signage?

For many years safety and health professionals, and the companies that employ them, have been diligently seeking the most effective means of achieving and sustaining high safety performance.