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Weekly news round-up

June 1, 2019

OSHA releases its upcoming regulatory agenda, a treatment offers hope to those struggling with opioid addiction and contractors launch an effort to get motorists to drive safely in highway work zones. These were among the top stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

Workplace violence, LOTO, silica on OSHA’s spring 2019 regulatory agenda

May 31, 2019

The spring 2019 regulatory agenda released by OSHA last week includes rulemakings in various stages that will be priorities for the agency in the near future. Included on the agenda:

Contractors to drivers: Go slow in highway work zones

Associated General Contractors of America tries to reduce risk to workers

May 29, 2019

Some 67 percent of highway contractors report that motor vehicles crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). In response, association officials have launched a new radio and media campaign urging drivers to slow down and remain alert in highway work zones.

From JLG Industries: Still using ladders? It’s time to evolve.

May 28, 2019

Still using ladders and scaffolding at your workplace? Low-level access lifts—products designed to help you easily reach tasks at heights up to 20 ft—can replace them while bringing additional productivity- and safety-boosting benefits to your facility.

BCSP Foundation to host first bi-annual Research and Innovation Summit

May 28, 2019

BCSP, together with the BCSP Foundation, are proud to announce the first ever Bi-Annual Research and Innovation Summit, to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, August 6 and 7, 2019.

Getting ‘smart’ about construction safety

Wearable sensors could monitor stress, physical demands and even risk perception

May 27, 2019

The construction industry, by its nature, can be dangerous. SangHyun Lee, an associate professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, says wearable sensors can improve construction worker safety and also reduce costs through better data on worker health. He answers questions about his research.

Weekly news round-up

May 25, 2019

Avoiding risk, preventing asthma and fast-tracking self-driving autos were among the top occupational safety and health, environment, transportation, and regulation stories featured on ISHN.com this week.

ASSP and NIOSH collaborating to advance workplace safety

May 24, 2019

The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) have renewed a partnership agreement that outlines how the organizations will collaborate on advancing workplace safety and health over the next five years.

NC contractor earns 15 fall protection violations in five years

Company slogan is “Always Done Right”

May 23, 2019

OSHA’s recent enforcement actions against DDG Construction Services Inc. must have been like déjà vu all over again for the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company. The agency cited DDG for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a commercial building site in Springfield, Missouri – bringing the number of fall violations the company has been cited for since 2014 to 15. Proposed penalties for the latest round of citations: $98,693.

OSHA eliminates a residential construction requirement

May 22, 2019

OSHA is eliminating a construction industry requirement that it says will “lessen the compliance burden of employers without jeopardizing the safety of employees.” In a final rule published in the Federal Register on May 14, the agency says employers will no longer have to post maximum safe-load limits of floors in storage areas when constructing single-family dwellings or wood-framed multi-family structures.