As of January 2025, theOccupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all construction employers provide workers withproperly fitting PPE—aligning the construction industry with a rule that has long applied to general industry. This update aims to enhance safety by ensuring that pr...
Judge Walker also rejected the argument that the OSHA regulatory scheme impliedly preempts the DEP program. He found that the DEP program has two purposes, first, to protect the public health and, second, to protect employee health and safety. Given these dual purposes, the court held that ...
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has challenged OSHA's proposed rule to regulate the use of safety eyewear and hardhats. In its comments, ISEA claims OSHA's proposal to change the recognition process for product performance standards for PPE could reduce the protection level ...
“We perform cost-benefit analyses, weighing incentives, including lower insurance and workers compensation expenses, against the costs associated with OSHA fines and reputational and property damage,” he says. “We ask, ‘What initiatives make sense for the firm, given its exposure?’ But what m...
In the US, HR is responsible for helping ensure the healthcare workplace is compliant with OSHA rules. During the past few years, HR has also addressed the medical threat of COVID-19 and the accompanying rise in violence against healthcare workers....
In August 2019, OSHA inspectors observed two employees sheeting a residential roof without adequatefall protectionin Naperville, Illinois. The agency also cited the company for failing to train employees on fall protection, and to provide and ensure that employees wore safety glasses and hard hats....
The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has challenged OSHA's proposed rule to regulate the use of safety eyewear and hardhats. In its comments, ISEA claims OSHA's proposal to change the recognition process for product performance standards for PPE could reduce the protection level ...
Hard hats were required in the yard area, and the use of safety shoes, boots and eye protection was encouraged. Pentachlorophenol concentrations ranged from 275.0 to 4.9 micrograms per cubic meter for the treatment operator filling a horizontal tank with hot pentachlorophenol oil and the treatment ...
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Additional factors found by OSHA included: Proximity of high-occupancy structures (control rooms) to hazardous operations; inadequate separation between buildings; crowded process equipment; insufficient separation between the reactors and the control room for emergency shutdown procedures ...