Use your gas monitor to know what you’re getting into
Modern day civilization has the benefit of regulatory bodies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as well as the advantage of having a multitude of equipment choices for meeting OSHA regulations for confined space metering.
To understand the types of monitoring protection available for workers in confined spaces, let’s first look at some definitions.
What to do when you’re first on the scene in an emergency
In the context of a workplace accident, the “first responder†is often simply the first person on the scene, regardless of training. It may be an emergency medical technician, or someone with a first-aid card who will do the best he or she can until professional assistance arrives. Let’s look at the precautions employees should take to protect their own safety should they be first on the scene responding to a workplace incident or injury.
At long last OSHA published a new standard in the Feb. 28 Federal Register that covers occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction and shipyards. The new standard lowers OSHA's permissible exposure limit (PEL) for hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)), and for all Cr(VI) compounds, from 52 to 5 micrograms per cubic meter of air as an 8-hour time-weighted average.
“Willie, I want to introduce you to Chuck Smith. Chuck’s going to be helping us with our behavior-based safety process. We’ve been at it for a long time and it needs a jump-start.â€
Willie had been resisting getting more involved in safety, especially the BBS process, and Joe thought this might be a good time to introduce him to some new thoughts.
In this month’s column I offer critical distinctions between positive reinforcement, reward, and recognition; and explain the standard BBS instruction for giving recognition can be undesirable.
At long last OSHA published a new standard in the Feb. 28 Federal Register that covers occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction and shipyards.
What you need to know to utilize their full potential
When personal monitoring pumps first appeared in the 1950s, they were simple devices, designed for the rugged task of airborne dust monitoring in underground coal mines. By the mid-1970s, designs had become more complex, with flow control systems to maintain the flow rate more accurately. By the end of the decade, two types of flow control systems emerged aimed at two distinctly different goals. These control systems are known generically as constant flow control and constant pressure control. Understanding the differences between these two basic control formats allows us to access the full potential of today’s personal sampling pumps.
A “smartly dressed†employee has traditionally been associated with wearing work apparel that attractively displays a company’s cohesive brand and image. But in today’s industrial work environments, that definition has been broadened to include employees who wear company workwear designed to help protect them against a wide range of safety threats — from those that could occur while performing job tasks to others that could be posed by outside intruders entering the workplace.
Whether you are involved in ongoing operations or “start-up†activities, any training and education effort has to start with a review of your operations and some research of the OSHA standards…in other words, preparation is essential if you don’t want to have to revise, amend and double your efforts. In the case of PPE, the operational review is made all the easier because of OSHA’s requirements for assessing the workplace; the standards research is provided for you as follows.
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