OSHA Compliance

The rule revisions follow OSHA’s updates to its general industry standards addressing slip, trip, and fall hazards (OSHA Subpart D, Walking-Working Surfaces) and its changes to its requirements for personal fall protection systems (in OSHA Subpart I, Personal Protective Equipment). The effective date of the amended General Industry Part 2. Walking-Working Surfaces is February 2,…...

Some safety professionals think the stories of workers dying in air-supplied respirators hooked into an inert gas supply are “urban safety myths”.  Granted, these incidents are rare,  but they do happen and they almost always result in a fatality.  Here are some of the OSHA Case files from such incidents…… Membership Required You must be...

OSHA’s Slings Standard (29 CFR 1910.184) specifies several paperwork requirements, depending on the type of sling paragraph (e) of the Standard covers alloy steel chain slings; paragraph (f) covers wire rope slings; paragraph (g) covers metal mesh slings; paragraph (h) covers natural and synthetic fiber-rope slings; and paragraph (i) covers synthetic web slings) The purpose of each of…...

The following were the top 10 most frequently cited standards by Federal OSHA in the fiscal year 2017 (October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017):… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

A wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operated a trucking unit that transported wastewater. The business that owned the facility and trucking unit applied for insurance coverage. In their insurance application and related correspondence, the business represented that they did not accept, process, transport, or discharge hazardous waste. The insurance company issued a $2 million “Primary Environmental…...

This was an interesting decision, as I have always been amazed at the legalities involved with which agency enforces which rules at a specific workplace.  Some workplaces will have to comply with BOTH OSHA and MSHA standards, making safety management even more complicated.  This case involved a “mining company” but the complaint and subsequent citations…...

OSHA has cited a power company and a contractor after five workers were killed, (1 plant operator and four contractors) and one other suffered serious burns. In June 2017, OSHA determined that the workers were burned when a blockage inside a coal-fired furnace broke free and spewed molten slag into the work area. Employees of…...

Industry petitioned for review of five issues: whether substantial evidence supports OSHA’s finding that limiting workers’ silica exposure to the level set by the Rule reduces a significant risk of material health impairment; whether substantial evidence supports OSHA’s finding that the Rule is technologically feasible for the foundry, hydraulic fracturing, and construction industries; whether substantial…...

On February 8, 2017, @ 11:15 a.m.three (3) contractors were climbing down from an elevated pipe rack. As they were climbing down, the stainless steel “Foul Condensate” tank exploded, striking the workers and tossing their bodies 200 yards from the explosion. All three workers were killed.  OSHA issues five (5) Serious Citations releated to Hot…...

OSHA and a grain handling company have signed a comprehensive settlement requiring the company to implement safeguards, training, and audit procedures at its 20 grain handling facilities in six states. The agreement resolves contested citations issued by OSHA in April 2012 after six individuals were killed and two injured as a result of an Oct…....