Hazardous Materials – Hazard Communication Standards

In the workplace, there are certain types of hazards that are quite clear. For example, the idea that injuries could result due to a fall down a long, slippery metal stairwell, or through accidental contact with a rapidly-spinning steel blade do not need to be explained to anyone. However, there are scenarios where the dangers are not so immediately obvious, making it difficult for workers to know exactly which precautions they need to take and what type of personal protective equipment they need to wear.

Hazardous Materials – Chemical Personal Protection Equipment

Risk managers in every industry are aware of the fact that despite their best preparations and most carefully laid plans, accidents can and do happen in the workplace. Just as managers work diligently to create a jobsite where the chances of an injury-causing incident are greatly reduced, they must also ensure that individual workers are protected from harm should the unthinkable actually occur.

OSHA Initiates Recordkeeping National Emphasis Program

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is understandably focused on promoting policies and standards in the workplace that protect employees from injury on the job. To this end, not only do they provide guidance and a regulatory framework designed to create a safer environment for workers in every industry, but they also penalize those companies who repeatedly report high levels of worker injury.

Workers Compensation Wake Up Call

Even though the 6.2 million dollar settlement that the Sears Holding Corp reached was the largest filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the workers compensation world should be taking note

OSHA Updates Steel Erection Standard to Improve Fall Protection

More construction workers are killed by falls than any by any other danger present on job sites in a given year, with 447 fatal victims in 2007 alone. As just over 37 percent of construction deaths are related to falls, it is clear that risk managers must keep this safety area first and foremost on their minds when putting together a worker protection policy.

Identifying Dust Explosion Risks – An Overview for Risk Managers

Controlling the risk of dust explosions in the workplace involves an understanding of the specific elements that go into creating a hazardous situation. Risk managers are already familiar with the Fire Triangle, which is the combination of elements that together form the necessary building blocks for fire: an ignition source, oxygen and fuel. However, a dust explosion introduces two other elements into the equation.

OSHA Site Specific Targeting 2009 Program

Recently, OSHA released its inspection list for 2009, which details the 4,000 sites that OSHA plans to inspect. The Site Specific Targeting plan was designed to allow OSHA to streamline enforcement.

OSHA Releases Hazard Communication Guidance for Dust Explosion Risk

Risk managers are often aware of the dangers that excessive dust at a job site or facility can pose to the respiratory health of workers. However, there are other, less obvious dangers also related to dust buildup, which can pose a serious hazard not only to the safety of employees, but also to the integrity of a building itself. Specifically, the single largest of these concerns with regards to dust is the increased risk of explosion that can occur in areas that are most heavily affected by buildup.

OSHA Publishes Ethylene Oxide Guide for Small Businesses

Hospital and health workers are not strangers to the everyday dangers involved in their line of work, such as exposure to violent patients, unhealthy lifting situations or even unexpected failures of protective equipment such as gloves or scrubs. However, there are some concerns in the health workplace that are much more difficult to prepare for – largely because they are invisible.

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