UPDATED 10/22/2019 with new images and new explanations. UPDATE: Please see my June 2017 posting PHMSA’s New Cylinder “Special Permit” authorizes an extension of the 15-year service life of certain carbon fiber reinforced aluminum-lined cylinders (DOT-CFFC)… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Each employer must address actions that workers will take when there is an unwanted release of highly hazardous chemicals. Employers will need to decide: if they want workers to handle and stop small or minor incidental releases; whether they wish to mobilize the available resources at the plant and have them brought to bear on…...
Doing some work for a client regarding fall protection on “order pickers” I came across this neat calculator for calculating a new load center capacity…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...
Since my last article on Hazardous Locations I have received dozens of e-mails from members/subscribers asking about their specific workplace situations. The best advice I can pass on is OSHA’s advice. They have provided specific examples of the types of areas that would be considered Hazardous Locations in the Subpart S Definitions Section, 1910.399 Definitions applicable…...
Learn the regulation making process from initial planning to publishing in the Code of Federal Regulations. This is an awesome tool for those who, like me, sometimes forget all the work that goes into get a new regulation passed. This is the other side of the “story” regarding the balance of “regulation vs. free enterprise”…....
Seems like I get to be the messenger once again this month in how a change at one agency MAY impact yet again our compliance with another agency. Last week I reminded the SAFTENG family about how a 2010 change in OR-OSHA impacted some facilities RMPs. This week I have discovered that a change in…...
OSHA has published criteria for removing employers from the agency’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP). SVEP has been in effect since June 18, 2010, and is intended to focus agency resources on employers that demonstrate indifference to their responsibilities under the Occupational Safety and Health Act with willful, repeat or failure-to-abate violations. On August 16,…...
Although it is not really “new” any longer; OSHA revised 1910.307 in 2007 and many of the facts that are presented in this article may be “news” to a lot of you. Many of the “new” requirements in 1910.307 Hazardous (classified) Locations are often not well understood or not even known. This article, which has been…...
Since I was able to conduct my very first fit test, I was taught that the Qualitative method was ONLY permitted when the user was wearing an Air Purifying Respirator (APR) which needed a fit factor of 100 or less. When I read 1910.134(f)(6), that is exactly how I read it today… QLFT may only…...
(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)…...
