(UPDATED with agenda on 8/20/12) The SAFTENG.net LLC Team will be conducting our OSHA Boot Camp training for one of our local Cincinnati clients. I normally do not open this training up to outsiders, but the feedback we have received after the last couple of courses suggested that I make this course one of the FREE […]
OSHA is updating the references in its standards to recognize the 2009 edition of the American National Standard for Industrial Head Protection, and is deleting the 1986 edition of that national consensus standard because it is out of date. OSHA also is including the construction industry in this rulemaking to ensure consistency among the Agency’s
ACOEM Guideline – The Use of Contact Lenses in an Industrial Environment May 4, 2003 More than 34 million Americans wear some type of contact lenses. Of this number, many are employed as part of the industrial workforce. As the health professional most familiar with the hazards encountered in the industrial setting, the occupational and environmental medicine (OEM)
Lenses and Frames The many changes incorporated in the new ANSI Z87.1-2003 will affect the manufacture and testing of both safety frames and safety lenses. Because your industrial business is a valuable asset to your overall operation, you should be familiar with and adopt the practices of the new procedure to ensure compliance and to
Applications and Attributes (Informative: the safeguarding and complementary equipment contained in the chart below, as well as their applications and attributes, are NOT intended as an all-inclusive list, but merely as additional information or guidance on some potential uses and capabilities of the listed safeguarding and complementary equipment) Safeguarding Application(s) (for safeguarding hazard areas
SAFTENG believes this information to be accurate and delivers it as a community service. As such, it cannot apply to every specific fact or situation; nor is it a substitute for any provisions of 29 CFR Part 1910 of the Occupational Safety and Health Standards.
Below is a listing of OSHA’s General Industry Standards that require some type of written program or plan.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This is NOT an official listing and is NOT meant to include 100% of all REQUIRED postings, labels, and signs. It is an effort by one individual to identify those OSHA 1910 std’s that require some sign, posting, or label to better prepare a workplace regarding OSHA signage and posting requirements. The user
Although this is about athletic eye and face protection fogging, if ASTM is successful with athletic eye and face protection it will have a HUGE IMPACT on workplace safety eye and face protection!
Here is an explanation of the “letters” that OH EPA uses in their enforcement communications and how and when they use each type of communication:
Intended for those EH&S professionals responsible for conducting or working in a successful hearing conservation program within their organization, this webinar is designed to give an overview of hearing conservation program management. Topics will include an examination of different hearing conservation program components including regulatory guidance, noise hazard identification and control, monitoring audiometry and noise
On September 9, 2009, OSHA issued a final rule which revised and updated Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) standards to be more consistent with the current consensus standards regarding good industry practices, as reflected by the latest editions of the pertinent American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards at the time (74 Fed. Reg. 46350-46361). The rule
