Residential builders will no longer be allowed to bypass fall protection requirements, thanks to a new directive from OSHA that replaces one issued in 1995.
The earlier directive, the result of concerns about the feasibility of fall protection in residential building construction, was intended to be a temporary policy, according to an agency press release.
The Injury and Illness Prevention Program (I2P2) that OSHA calls its "highest regulatory priority" was on the minds of many who participated in the agency’s recent webchat on its 2011 regulatory agenda.
A year-long deadlock with the Mingo-Logan Coal Company in West Virginia has been broken by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which says it will invoke a rarely-used authority to stop the company from disposing of mining waste in streams near it's Spruce No. 1 coal mine.
The U.S. Supreme Courts recent ruling that resident physicians are classified as workers - not students - for the purpose of paying Social Security taxes should mean that residents get the same protections afforded to other workers, according to Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest advocacy organization.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Georgia Gulf Chemicals & Vinyls LLC with 14 serious violations for exposing workers to multiple safety and health hazards at the company's facility in Plaquemine. Proposed penalties total $55,000.
OSHA has issued the Bridgford Foods Processing Corp. facility in Chicago 10 safety citations for failing to implement and provide training for workers on lockout/tagout procedures, thereby exposing them to energized equipment. The meat processing plant is facing proposed penalties of $212,000.
Two Pennsylvania companies have been cited by OSHA for workplace safety violations following the deaths of two workers at a well site explosion in Cheswick.
The Gulf oil disaster was forseeable and preventable, and similar large-scale catastrophes are likely in the future unless serious reforms are undertaken, according to a report just released by the Oil Spill Commission.
JE Amorello, Inc. of Worster, Massachusets exposed workers to trenching hazards, according to OSHA, which has issued willful and serious citations against the company. JE Amorello also faces more than
A new type of lung cancer screening may help workers who are at increased risk for the disease because of past occupational exposures, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
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