OSHA Compliance Posts

You are the SH manager at a large box retail store.  One morning around 8 am, one of the shopping cart collectors is found lying on the ground under a pick-up truck in the parking lot.  He is incoherent, lying on the ground, and moving, putting his hands behind his head.  The employee lacked any visible…...

One very popular question we get is where are EW/SS’s required and what factors are considered in their placement.  We always tell clients and friends that they should utilize ANSI Z358.1 – 2004.  Who has $75 to spend on an ANSI standard these days????  So what can we do…turn to another GREAT and FREE resource…OR-OSHA. …...

  When we do our many third party S&H audits around the country, there are a few findings we could just leave on our spreadsheet as they are so common from business to business. One of these common findings is the lack of annual training for employees on their rights to access, view, copy, etc…....

Although this decision was really about when OSHA can cite an employer for exposure to a hazard.  The company claimed there was none or very little exposure to these unguarded lathe chucks because only one worker used these lathes only once or twice a year; however, OSHA cited for the unguarded equipment based on this…...

An often overlooked requirement in the HCP standard (1910.95) requires each hearing protector provided by the employer be evaluated using 1910.95 Appendix B to ensure that each one will attenuate the noise level down to a prescribed exposure limit; either 90 dBA or 85 dBA if the user has suffered a standard threshold shift (STS). …...

On Dec. 24, 2008, the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Fifth District, 2008 Ohio 6898, 2008 Ohio App. LEXIS 5758. affirmed (3 to 0) the decision of a trial judge in Stark County Court of Common Pleas, granting summary judgment to the employer. The employee breached the “Last Chance Agreement” entered into between the…...

PARTS Under TITLE 29, CHAPTER XVII, The OSHA Regulations are broken down into “Parts”. Part 1910, For example, is commonly known as the OSHA General Indistry Standards.  Part 1926 covers OSHA Construction Standards and Parts 1915, 1917, and 1918 include the OSHA standards for the Maritime Industry.  SUBPARTS Under each part, such as Part 1910, major blocks…...

OSHA recognizes that in some situations, violations of certain standards which require the employer to have a written program to address a hazard, or to make a written certification (e.g., hazard communication, personal protective equipment, permit-required confined spaces, and others), are perceived to be “paperwork deficiencies” rather than critically important implementation problems. In other circumstances,…...

Let me be clear… I am not a Fall Protection expert in any stretch of the imagination, so I am all about engineering out the fall hazards whenever possible.  A few weeks ago we received a call from a new client who had just suffered a bad accident where one of their star employees was…...

This “Hearing Loss Recordibility” question was added to the Recordkeeping Directive on 1/12/2012. What rules must an employer ensure that a physician or other licensed health care professional use to make a determination that a hearing loss case is not work-related under section 1904.10(b)(6)?… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership...