“Hand hygiene saves lives,” exclaims the slogan on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings Web site. But like many safety slogans, this one, too, is often ignored.
Providing personal protective equipment (PPE) to help protect welders and other employees has always been a top priority in the metal fabricating industry, as well as in other industrial environments. These days, personal protection has been raised to a new level.
The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has formally begun its probe of last week's deadly wall collapse at a Tri-Star Mining strip mine in Barton, Md.
OSHA signed an agreement April 6, 2007, with the
Building Construction Trades Department (BCTD), AFL-CIO, Laborers’
International Union of North America, and International Brotherhood of Teamsters,
to settle their challenge to OSHA’s hexavalent chromium standard (BCTD, et al.,
v. OSHA, Case No. 06-2433 (3d Cir.).
OSHA is making available its look-back study for
the agency's construction standard on excavations. The Regulatory Flexibility
Act of 1980 directs OSHA to review and evaluate the effectiveness of its
standards and the impact those standards have had on lowering injuries,
illnesses and fatalities in the workplace.
Several New York City building trades are
calling for stricter enforcement of safety rules and training, according to a
report broadcast yesterday on New York Public Radio.
Basic Elements of an Employer’s
Program to Provide a Safe and Healthful Work Environment, is one
of a series of standards that focus on construction and demolition operations,
and establishes minimum elements of a program for protecting the safety and
health of employees involved in construction activities.
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