OSHA has published the final rule on the Global Harmonization System and it contains both good news and bad news.
Dec. 1 is the first deadline under OSHA’s new Globally Harmonized System regulation, which requires training on the new label elements and the new SDS format.
At the recent ASSE Conference in Las Vegas there were two issues that seemed to be moving to the front burner: Risk assessment and sustainability.
The March issue of ASSE’s Professional Safety magazine was devoted to the subject of Prevention through Design (PtD), with three excellent articles that covered: Integrating PtD into undergraduate curricula Design methods for implementing PtD, including things like policy, standards, processes …
Multi-tasking has evolved from a talent to a necessity to maintain the pace of everyday productivity. Whether an employee is talking on a cell phone while working, or not wearing his or her personal protective equipment, many workers have placed …
When I work with clients, I always use Task Based Risk Assessment (TaBRA). Last August I wrote about how the methodology was instrumental in OSHA vacating a lockout citation. But the method is helpful in many situations, including: Deciding if …
Safety: What to do when employees know better but don’t do better
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It is no secret that drug and alcohol abuse are among the biggest causes of workplace accidents. Drug testing in turn can be one of the best ways to combat this problem. In fact, among companies that initiated drug testing, …
Just because you hire contract workers from a staffing company doesn’t mean that your obligation to assure that they are properly trained in safety is any less. That is an important point made by Dave Hoover in the current Forklift …
Sometimes in our focus on the complexities of rules and regulations, we forget the simple, common-sense questions where clear answers can make a real difference in safety. In this month’s OSHA Training Blog, Curtis Chambers addresses some of those issues …