While the goals of the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy are admirable, the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) sees as a glaring omission in the current proposal: the lack of attention given to medical conditions caused by workplace exposures.
OSHA will hold an informal public hearing on Jan. 18, 2011, on the proposed rule revising the Walking-Working Surfaces and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) standards to improve worker protection from slip, trip, and fall hazards.
OSHA has issued a total of $473,000 in fines against two Illinois contractors who willfully exposed workers to trenching and excavation hazards. Cited in separate incidents were Di Paolo Co. in Glenview and Gerardi Sewer & Water Co. in Norridge.
An explosion that left workers suffering from first, second and third-degree burns and other injuries has resulted in citations for two companies, according to OSHA.
The agency charged both U.S. Steel Corp. and Power Piping Co. with failing to provide an effective energy control procedure, leading to a July, 2010 explosion at U.S. Steel's Clairton Works facility in Clairton, Pa.
A new police headquarters building in Illinois will rise under the scrutiny of a safety partnership comprised of OSHA and the contractors, consultants, carpenters union and municipality that are involved with the project.
2011 must be starting to feel a lot like 2009 for Best Plastering Contractors of El Paso, Texas. The company is on the receiving end of five repeat OSHA citations for exposing workers to fall hazards -- the same hazards that got it issued four willful and three serious citations two years ago.
Residential builders will no longer be allowed to bypass fall protection requirements, thanks to a new directive from OSHA that replaces one issued in 1995.
The earlier directive, the result of concerns about the feasibility of fall protection in residential building construction, was intended to be a temporary policy, according to an agency press release.
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) that OSHA calls its "highest regulatory priority" was on the minds of many who participated in the agency’s recent webchat on its 2011 regulatory agenda.
A year-long deadlock with the Mingo-Logan Coal Company in West Virginia has been broken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which says it will invoke a rarely-used authority to stop the company from disposing of mining waste in streams near it's Spruce No. 1 coal mine.
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