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…....
Ethanol, what is the worry? On May 14, 2007, a tanker carrying 8,000 gallons of ethanol overturned and burst into flames on an interstate in Baltimore, Maryland, killing the driver and sending a burning stream of ethanol into the street below, igniting a row of parked vehicles. On October 22, 2006, an eighty-six-car train carrying…...
Assigned Protection Factors (APF), a new guidance document published by OSHA provides employers with vital information for selecting respirators for employees exposed to contaminants in the air. OSHA revised its Respiratory Protection standard in 2006 to add APFs and Maximum Use Concentration (MUC) provisions. APF means the workplace level of respiratory protection that a respirator or…...
Assigned Protection Factors (APF), a new guidance document published by OSHA, provides employers with vital information for selecting respirators for employees exposed to contaminants in the air. OSHA revised its existing Respiratory Protection standard in 2006 to add APFs and Maximum Use Concentration (MUC) provisions. APF means the workplace level of respiratory protection that a respirator…...
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…...
We have come long ways with our SOPs over the past 20 years! But we still struggle with annual certifications of these SOPs. If anyone is a non-believer in what I am going to share with you in this article I encourage them to just randomly grab any SOP from your system and walk it…...
Below are the set of questions that will be asked during a VPP Assessment at PSM covered facilities. In my opinion, these are the same questions that should be asked at ALL PSM facilities! These questions are being provided so that we can ask these questions, whether we want to be a VPP site…...
I learned about the 90 day rule the hard way… from an OSHA CSHO during a VPP Inspection. I had personally signed off on a very large “temporary project” that installed some field monitors for an environmental permitting project. The MOC made it very clear that these devices would be in place for one (1)…...
Neat little video for those of us who need a reminder from time to time as to why we do what we do! Sounds like a GEICO commercial, but it is still a nice video for the safety profession. Where would we be without Safety Professionals? from InjuryFree on Vimeo…. Membership Required You must be...
This happens when the breach of essential safety rules is not only widely known about but also tolerated and accepted by peers and management as normal and acceptable behavior given the circumstances. Various factors can contribute to the normalization of deviance:… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a...
