OSHA Compliance Posts

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has notified the SBA Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) that OSHA intends to convene a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) panel (commonly known as an “SBREFA” panel) on a possible “Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” rule in the next several weeks. OSHA’s possible…...

They are NOT there to perform a causal analysis. They are there simply to determine if one or more of its standards were violated. And in some cases, they may even issue citations that had zero to do with the event that brought them on-site. So addressing OSHA’s citations is NOT the sole path forward…...

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In 2016 and 2017, The General Accountability Office (GAO) reported that meat and poultry workers faced multiple occupational hazards. OSHA is responsible for ensuring worker safety and health, Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is responsible for ensuring the safety of meat and poultry products, and employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces. …...

At 1:00 p.m. on December 16, 2022, an employee monitored the start-up and operations of a high-pressure Water Tube Generator Boiler in preparation for an anticipated winter storm. A threaded plug on the boiler wall failed during the boiler’s start-up as system pressure was building, allowing the release of high-temperature and high-pressure steam. The steam…...

As with some state plans, KY-OSHA has some standards that are more in-depth than the federal version.  Although, a couple of years ago, the KY legislature passed a bill that restricts KY-OSHA from adopting any standards that are more stringent than federal OSHA.  But for now, KY-OSHA’s 1st Aid standard goes much further than federal…...

Where an employee is confronted with a choice between not performing assigned tasks or being subjected to death or serious injury arising from a dangerous condition at the workplace, such employee may refuse in good faith to expose himself/herself to the dangerous condition. The condition causing the employee’s apprehension of death or injury must be…...

This instruction establishes policies and strategies to be followed when scheduling and conducting programmed regional emphasis inspections of seafood processing operations and related merchant wholesaler operations in two targeted North American Industry Classification System codes (NAICS): 311710, 311711 and 311712 Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging, and 424460 Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers These industries use…...

OSHA clarifies the term “chemicals associated with formaldehyde gas” under OSHA’s Formaldehyde standard, 29 CFR § 1910.1048. The questions answered are: Question 1: Is the term “chemicals associated with formaldehyde gas” in paragraph 29 CFR § 1910.1048(m)(1)(iv) correct? Question 2: What does OSHA mean by “chemicals associated with formaldehyde gas?” Question 3: How does the…...

Scenario: As part of their normal workday, an employee commutes in his personally-owned vehicle from home to the workplace. At the end of his 8-hour work shift, the employee commutes from the workplace to his home. Later that same day, there is an emergency at the workplace, and the employee’s supervisor calls him to return…...