Articles Tagged with ''OSHA standards''

Without question, and with decades of slow standards-setting experience at OSHA, these issue will take years to be addressed, if ever.

In the recent federal budget deal reached by Congress and signed by President Obama, OSHA gets an early Christmas present – if it wants to open this surprise package.

General deterrence — that is, the potential to be inspected, cited and fined — is less effective in reducing injuries than the specific deterrence effect of an actual inspection, according to a study by the Institute for Worker Health and Safety

When new construction begins on a structure, tunnel, roadway or any other large project, safe and dependable lighting is always a challenge.

There are more than 50 confined spaces on Western Illinois University's Macomb campus. On any given work day at Western, technicians in WIU Facilities Management may find themselves working in one of these potentially dangerous work sites.

Results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses released that private industry employers reported nearly 3 million non-fatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2014.

When OSHA set quantity requirements for annual refresher training without setting stringent quality requirements, safety training began a never-ending downward spiral.

Data collected by OSHA shows Ohio leading all states in the Midwest region for the number of workers killed on the job this year, according to the Associated Press.

...Earlier this year in Houston, Texas, a worker was hospitalized with broken arms and severe contusions after falling 12 feet off of a roof. The saddest part of this case wasn't that the employer did not provide fall protection for this worker; it was that the worker had actually requested fall protection and the employer had denied it.