Since the inception of the Control of Hazardous Energy standard in 1990, complying with the periodic inspection requirements has been a challenge for many employers — especially those large-scale operations with hundreds of assets to manage. To help employers implement and successfully manage a periodic inspection program, let’s take an overview look at the periodic inspection process.
Working TOGETHER: Strategies for fielding a winning safety team
The “Team Approachâ€â€¦a popular trend in industry today. The philosophy is to pull a group of employees together to work on projects, sharing the load, and empowering them in order to solve problems or perpetuate processes.
Today more than ever, workers have a wide range of personal cooling technologies from which to choose. With the summer months just around the corner, let’s look at five cooling garment options that can help your work crew beat the heat. As you review the technologies, remember the requirements of your particular application.
A total of 36,680 American workers suffered eye injuries on the job in 2004 and required time off work to recuperate, according to a recently released U.S. Department of Labor study.
Is the European CE Standard a blueprint for the U.S.?
Buying a pair of gloves is usually considered to be no big deal. But if you’re a safety officer required to provide hand protection for numerous employees against specific or even multiple hazards, your job has become considerably more difficult in the past few years.
Jim is a safety professional with 12 years of experience. He’s technically very competent, probably the best in the whole corporation. Jim tends to be low-key, private and introverted, a bit hard to “read.†He doesn’t initiate a lot of contact with the folks in the plant unless he is doing a safety audit, and spends a lot of time in his office alone.
Follow proper procedures to control hazardous energy
OSHA’s lockout/tagout regulation, found at 29 CFR 1910.147, is a standard we all can live with. The regulation covers the servicing or maintenance of machines or equipment in which the unexpected release of stored energy or equipment start-up could injure workers. The name of the standard — Control of Hazardous Energy (lockout/tagout) — describes what the regulation actually requires.
After the dust-up over the hexavalent chromium standard in late February, OSHA lifers on Pennsylvania Avenue must feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. You remember, the 1993 movie with the tagline, “He’s having the worst day of his life... over and over…†No matter what the standards-writers try, the same damn thing happens… over and over.
A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine reports that being angry more than quadruples a person’s odds of being injured, and being hostile increases those odds sixfold. Not surprisingly, the study also reports that being angry at work increased the odds of a workplace injury occurring.
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