The collapse of a crane at a metro hospital yesterday isn’t the first time equipment owned by Rent-A-Crane has been involved in an accident. Two years ago, a man died when a piece of a crane fell. Investigators are trying to determine what went wrong at Deaconess Hospital yesterday.

Point -Counter Point PSM Discussion.  Below is my position and counter to “my opinion” is that of a friend who specializes in PSM for the refrigeration industry.  You can read his position at his website taocomplaince.com Scenario:  You have a freezer with racking. The racking inside this freezer needs to be replaced. You hire a contractor to do the job. You evaluate and...

Industrial Scientific Corporation has determined that the GasBadge® Plus single-gas instrument may not properly indicate a low battery condition resulting in a failure to alarm or instrument shut down.  This condition is worsened when the instrument is used in conditions below room temperature.  As a result, for safety reasons, Industrial Scientific is issuing a recall of all current GasBadge...

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  ALERT #1 from Lyondellbassell A contractor was wearing a cotton flame resistant garment (FRC). According to testing done by the Newtown Square Research Center and the clothing manufacturer, these fabrics can exothermically react with bleach solutions to produce enough heat to burn skin and give off toxic gases (see box in alert). Nomex flame resistant garments do NOT react similarly.  The...

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On Saturday, December 17, 2011, a surface mechanic was seriously injured while setting a transmission into a CAT 777F rock truck using a truck-mounted hydraulic crane. The crane suddenly failed, allowing the boom to fall, striking him in the head and knocking him down between the frame rails of the truck. The victim was standing on the frame rail of the rock truck at the time of the accident....

“Hot work” means work involving electric or gas welding, cutting, brazing, or similar flame or spark-producing operations.  Click “Read More” below to view and download the ppt. … HomeRead More »

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)? … HomeRead More »

Many THANKS to John Newquist, Assistant Regional Administrator at DOL-OSHA, for providing this update.  Click “Read More” below… … HomeRead More »

Breathe in, Breathe out, Breathe in… Another deadline has passed for the roll out of the new Globally Harmonized System for our Hazardous Communications Standard.  With the politics in D.C. being what they are in this election year I am going to take a stab at guessing we may not see this roll out at all in 2012! … HomeRead More »

Here is what OSHA claims the cost savings will be for the “Globally Harmonized System” (GHS) for the revised HazCom Standard.  Not sure I am buying these “cost savings”. … HomeRead More »