OSHA Compliance

OSHA has cited an energy services company with 13 safety and health violations – including two willfuls and three repeats – for exposing workers to flash fires and other hazards. OSHA opened an inspection after two workers were injured by a fire that occurred in an oil and gas field tank (e.g. frac tank). Proposed […]

This is an AWESOME database that will be helpful beyond anything we could have asked for from NIOSH!!!  It actually breaks down eleven (11) type of power tools from eighteen (18) manufacturers with 41 specifications.

Here are some interesting numbers from OSHA regarding their activities in fiscal year 2012 (ending 9/30/2012): OSHA’s free On-site Consultation Program conducted approximately 30,000 visits to small and medium-sized employers. 205 million visits to OSHA’s Web site 213,283 calls to the OSHA 800 number 19,590 Spanish-speaking callers to the OSHA 800 number 32,906 questions submitted

UPDATED on 11/9/12 with standards for which OSHA assessed the highest penalties and links to OSHA pages for each of the standards listed The Top 10 cited standards and standards for which OSHA assessed the highest penalties in fiscal year 2012 (October 1, 2011 through September 30, 2012) are:

Over the years I have used many OSHRC decisions in my newsletters and website, as I feel they are GREAT learning tools to further our understanding of what is required to comply with OSHA standards.  The written decisions of the OSHRC include a ton of information about what the standard requires and the level of

This year a company was issued three citation items that the company failed to have a “company executive” certify its annual summaries of workplace injuries and illnesses entered on its OSHA 300 Logs for 2007, 2008, and 2009, in violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1904.32(b)(4).  OSHA proposed a penalty of $800 for each alleged violation.  OSHA’s

These are REALLY GREAT tools from OSHA and MSHA.  I can envision these tools being a GREAT EXERCISE for a safety comittee to use as a learning and assessment tool.  They can be used by facilities looking to get an understanding of their compliance obligations based on some VERY SPECIFIC workplace requirements.  The user will

Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI”), announced the result of a two-week sweep with the City Department of Buildings (“DOB”) that found and confiscated more than 70 fraudulent scaffold certification and U.S. Occupational and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) safety cards and resulted in the arrest of 30 construction workers at sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

This Instruction is intended to help Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs) safely inspect roadway and highway construction work zones and to issue consistent citations for violations. Working near fast-moving public traffic presents obvious hazards for CSHOs performing inspections.  This Instruction provides guidance for proper citation under 29 CFR 1926, Subpart G Signs, Signals, and

Anyone who works at a business that has a formal hotwork program can recite the distance at which all fire safety requirements must be in place… 35′.  But this 35′ is a “magical number” to many who use it on a daily basis.  Don’t believe the number is “magical”?  Just go out and ask your

The U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audit stated the SST program, to a limited extent, focused enforcement resources and targeted inspections on the highest risk industries and worksites. SST inspections excluded some of the highest risk industries and worksites where the most serious injuries and illnesses occurred because certain high-risk