School is out, and as teens throughout the nation take on summer employment, OSHA is focusing on keeping these young workers safe and healthy. The agency recently kicked off its Teen Summer Job Safety Campaign, a multi-year campaign that will focus on industries in which young people are likely to work during high school or college.
For the first time in a decade the rate of fatal workplace injuries increased, according to a new AFL-CIO job safety report, “Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect — A National and State-by-State Profile of Worker Safety and Health in the United States.â€
OSHA has fined a Louisiana-based contractor $179,900 for alleged safety violations related to the injury of a 19-year-old worker at an Atlanta, Texas, worksite in November 2005. The teen lost both his legs as a result of a workplace incident.
According to a recently released congressional report, OSHA does not perform many safety inspections at federal workplaces and has not conducted any agency-wide evaluations of federal safety programs in the last six years, the Washington Post reports.
The number of deaths of workers covered by the Oregon workers' compensation system set a record low in 2005, according to Oregon News Online. Thirty-one workers died on the job during 2005, the lowest number reported since the state began tracking the statistic in 1943.
Identifying hazards in your workplace will often amount to a one-person show — with that person being the safety pro. You’ll find scant agreement among management personnel when it comes to what is, or constitutes, a hazard.
Anyone who has ever stubbed a toe in the dark, had a flip-flop blow out, walked barefoot across gravel or otherwise tempted foot fate knows how tender the toes and soles can be once bruised, scraped, cut or bashed.
On an average day, there are more than 200 workplace fires in America. Annually, those fires kill hundreds of workers, injure many thousands more and cost American businesses billions of dollars in damage and lost productivity.
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