OSHA Compliance Posts

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…...

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A Corona man who authorities say posed as an OSHA inspector and attempted to collect a fine in cash was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012…. Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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…...

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,…...