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Observing Health and Safety at Work
Regardless of size, all businesses have a legal responsibility to protect the health and safety of their employees and visitors to their workplaces and offices, and a range of federal and state laws exist to ensure that responsibility is met. This article explains the main steps you must take for...
Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, BNET Editorial, OSHA, workplace, health care, job title, medical record, chemicals, public health, HIPAA, Human Resources, job, worker, compliance, storage, Web site, Web
Articles 2007-06-26
OSHA Form 174: Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS)
Federal law dictates that employers must provide information to their employees about hazardous materials and chemicals that employees may be exposed to in the workplace. The vehicle for that information is the Material Safety Data Sheet MSDS. While there is no specified format for the MSDS, OSHA has developed a...
Tags: Channel management, Office Depot Inc., OSHA, chemicals, supplier, workplace
Tools & templates 2004-03-01
OSHA Forms 300 And 300A: Injury And Illness Log And Summary
Every employer who is subject to OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Act and has more than 10 employees is required to maintain records relating to employee injuries and illness. This illness and injury log may be kept on a form developed by OSHA, known as Forms 300 and 300A log...
Tags: Office Depot Inc., OSHA, workplace, health care
Tools & templates 2003-10-02
The 100 Most Frequently Cited OSHA Construction Standards in1991: A Guide for the Abatement of the Top 25 Associated Physical Hazards
This report is intended to help employers and employees identify and correct hazards related to the most frequently cited OSHA standards found on construction sites throughout the United States. The report also is designed as a resource document for OSHA field personnel. The 100 most cited construction standards for 1991...
Tags: Quality, OSHA, standards, MIS, information system
White papers 2003-05-20
OSH Act, OSHA Standards, Inspections, Citations And Penalties
While OSHA continually reviews and redefines specific standards and practices, its basic purposes remain constant. OSHA strives to implement its mandate fully and firmly with fairness to all concerned. In all its procedures, from standards development through implementation and enforcement, OSHA guarantees employers and employees the right to be fully...
Tags: Quality, OSHA, standards, compliance, training, health care, agency
White papers 2003-01-01
Your Business and OSHA
In the U.S. thousands of workers die each year in workplace accidents. Hundreds of thousands suffer injuries. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration, OSHA, has been established to coordinate government efforts to improve workplace safety. OSHA is responsible for: safety analyses and studies; training program efforts; and regulation development and...
Tags: Quality, Recruitment & Selection, OSHA, workplace, standards, worker, training, health care
White papers 2003-01-01
T h e F i v e B i g g e s t P ro c e s s S a f e t y C h a l l e n g e s F o r 2 0 0 3
Since 9/11/01, there have been many governmental organizations and industry associations involved in determining what security measures should be implemented by companies that handle hazardous chemicals. OSHA has been trying for years to promulgate a revision to the PSM regulation to cover reactive chemicals. Companies that have processes covered by...
Tags: OSHA, chemicals, audit, regulation, C, industry, security
White papers 2003-01-01
What Does OSHA Want From You?
"Treat yourself to another cup of coffee and be aware that pesticide regulation inspectors are citing employers like you for use of disinfectants. Some inspectors say that hazard communication training is not adequate for employees exposed to pesticides, germicides, and insecticides. This is also affecting Process Safety Management standards because...
Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, OSHA, training, health care, job
White papers 2003-01-01
OSHA Develops Evacuation Planning Matrix
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA has developed the new Evacuation Planning Matrix which will provide employers with requirements, ideas, assistance, and online resources to help them reduce their vulnerability to and plan for workplace emergencies. The Evacuation Planning Matrix includes a checklist for employers to help them evaluate...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, OSHA, workplace, health care, accommodation, harassment, risk
White papers 2003-01-01
Performing the Confined Space Assessment
Confined space fatalities are a common occurrence in the workplace. Unacceptable atmospheric conditions, such as toxic atmospheres or lack of oxygen, contributed to over half of the confined-space related deaths. This standard contains several requirements intended to ensure employee safety while performing work in confined spaces. The first step in...
Tags: Work Place Group, oxygen, workplace, training
White papers 2003-01-01
Bloodborne Pathogens: OSHA's Standard for General Industry
This paper addresses compliance with OSHA's bloodborne pathogen standard for employers in general industry. Healthcare employers and operators of certain research facilities have unique exposures and associated regulations which are not covered by the scope of this paper. Any OSHA-regulated employer who employs one or more potentially exposed employees, must...
Tags: OSHA, compliance, industry, health care
White papers 2002-04-03
An Overview of OSHA's Laboratory Standard: 29 CFR 1910.1450
The basis for the standard lies in the fact the "laboratories typically differ from industrial operations in their use and handling of hazardous chemicals and that a different approach than that found in OSHA's substance specific health standards is warranted to protect workers." OSHA's intent for the standard is to...
Tags: OSHA, chemicals, worker, health care
White papers 2002-04-03
OSHA Training Guidelines
Training is an essential part of every employer's safety and health program for protecting workers from injuries and illnesses. Many researchers conclude that those who are new on the job have a higher rate of accidents and injuries than more experienced workers. If lack of knowledge of specific job hazards...
Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, OSHA, training, health care, worker, knowledge, accident, compliance, job
White papers 2001-04-30
Warehouses Prepare For New Regs
The controversial proposals by OSHA and the DOT carry high price tags for many warehouses when it comes to compliance. No one disputes the advantages of providing employees with a safe environment in which to work. But when federally proposed regulations are carried too far beyond the scope of good,...
Tags: Regulations, Reed Elsevier Inc., OSHA, regulation, warehouse, compliance, health care, environment
Case studies 2001-01-01

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Shaw Recognized for Safety Excellence at Power Plant Project
Shaw's Cleco Rodemacher 3 Project Receives OSHA VPP STAR Designation BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) announced today that the Fossil Division of its Power Group has received the Voluntary Protection Programs VPP STAR designation from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Health &...
Articles 2008-07-16
Heat Illness Prevention Outreach and Enforcement Intensify in 2008, Cal/OSHA Statistics Show
SAN FRANCISCO -- Outreach and education events aimed at protecting workers from heat illness have increased over the first six months of this year as has enforcement of the nation's first heat illness prevention regulations, according to figures released by the Department of Industrial Relation's Division of Occupational Safety and...
Articles 2008-07-15
Smurfit-Stone's Hodge, LA, Mill Becomes First in Company History to Achieve 3 Million Hours Without a Recordable Accident
CREVE COEUR, Mo. and CHICAGO, July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation's paper mill in Hodge, LA, has become the first mill in company history to achieve 3 million hours worked without a recordable accident according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA standards. The hours worked covered 815...
Articles 2008-07-09
Cal/OSHA Stresses Importance of Taking Precautions to Prevent Heat Illnesses
OAKLAND, Calif. -- With triple digit temperatures scorching many regions of the state, Cal/OSHA urges employers to observe the precautions specified in the heat illness prevention regulation. For employees working outdoors, the hot sun with high temperatures can be life-threatening. "Just an increase of two degrees in normal...
Articles 2008-07-08
First Vehicle Services Fort Wayne, Ind., Location Earns OSHA VPP Star Status
CINCINNATI, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- First Vehicle Services, a leader in fleet management and maintenance, announces its Fort Wayne, Ind., location has received a Star designation from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as part of the agency's Voluntary Protection Program VPP. The VPP program recognizes businesses that demonstrate...
Articles 2008-07-07
City bureau team in Portland inducted into SHARP
Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services' construction field operations will be inducted into OSHA's Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program during a presentation on July 24. The SHARP program encourages businesses to become self- sufficient in managing workplace safety and health issues, and provides incentives to find and...
Articles 2008-07-07
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