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OSHA has issued a letter of concern to an organization regarding their 40-hour “HAZWOPER Hands-On Simulator®” on-line training program. OSHA states…As always, the use of interactive and video training programs as a part of an employer’s overall HAZWOPER training program is acceptable. However, an employer may not rely solely on the use of an interactive or video training...
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From Liberty Mutual’s Research Institute for Safety
Safety warnings are everywhere – on machinery, road signs, medication bottles, electronics, cleaning solutions, and food items…the list goes on. In the workplace, safety warnings are meant to help workers make decisions to avoid actions that could lead to injury, illness, or even death. They are an important, and often required, part...
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Whenever someone is hurt in an accident, people say, “There ought to be a law!” Politicians rush to oblige them and then take credit for all the lives they saved. But shouldn’t they also accept blame for the lives lost because of those laws? Lives lost? Yes. A joint study by the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute (http://www.aei-brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=98)...
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The GUIDANCE ON INVESTIGATING AND ANALYZING HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS ASPECTS OF INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS is a report published by ENERGY INSTITUTE, LONDON. Simply attributing incidents/accidents to human error is not adequate; human factors aspects should be investigated such that lessons are learned to prevent recurrence. Each incident or accident is a learning opportunity, but...
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What has changed in the definition of an IDLH atmosphere? NIOSH has removed the mention of the 30 minute time period, based on intraspecies variation factors. There is no mention of the 30-minutes in the new definition. A little history about the IDLH designation…
The concept of using respirators to protect workers in situations that are immediately dangerous to life or health was...
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On June 20, 2009, an ammonia line ruptured during maintenance at a poultry processing plant in Robeson County, N.C., killing one employee and injuring several others. This accident should remind employers of the hazards associated with the use of anhydrous ammonia as a refrigerant at food processing plants. Click Here (.pdf) to see and print this 2-page Alert. If you have NH3 on site,...
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The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries has adopted a rule amendment to WAC 296-45 based on recommendations from the Electric Utility Safety Advisory Committee. EUSAC recommended that the Department adopt a “Safety Watch”, which entails direct supervision of a qualified person when a nonqualified employee approaches exposed energized electrical equipment in substations or switch yards....
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The purpose of this document is to describe the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS), why it was developed, and how it relates to the sound management of chemicals. The full official text of the system is available on the web at:http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_rev00/00files_e.html. The GHS is an acronym for The Globally...
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Some may think this is crazy, I do; but I have had many debates with businesses during audits and serious accident investigations around this argument. There are a lot of mind-sets in plants that have many presses that LOTO does not apply to this task as it would slow production too much and put them out of business. I am floored each time, as you will see in this analysis, their argument...
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Scenario: An employer requires ordinary safety-toe footwear throughout their facilities and pays for the first $100 of the footwear cost. As part of a recent company-wide static electricity control program, employees working with flammable liquids and products are now required to have static dissipative safety-toe footwear.
Question 1: Would the static dissipative safety-toe footwear be considered...
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This report considers the effectiveness of hearing protectors in everyday work situations. The study reported here was undertaken in two parts. The first consisted of interviews with employers to discuss management of noise and hearing protector use, and on site observation of hearing protector use. The purpose of these visits was to see:
how well hearing protection was used;
the training provided;
the...
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This NPRM would update the SDO standards referenced in the three paragraphs that comprise the Acetylene Standard. The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) published several editions of these SDO standards after OSHA adopted them in 1974, and one of these standards (i.e., Compressed Gas Association Pamphlet G-1.4-1966), is no longer available for purchase from CGA. Therefore, to ensure that employers have...
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