Employers looking for help on how to structure their workplace safety and health programs just received a roadmap from OSHA’s new Safety ...
Seyfarth Synopsis: Safety and health management systems (SHMSs) may demonstrate a commitment to improving safety and health outcomes, and reduce legal liabilities. The federal OSHA standards mandate a ...
Changes to this directive include provisions for reviewing alternate and supplementary standards for federal agencies, which are the equivalent of private sector variances from OSHA standards. Other ...
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The Voluntary Protection Program is an initiative created by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that encourages private industry and federal agencies ...
The OSHA #2455 Safety and Health Management Program course covers safety and health management responsibilities. Participants will be able to implement a workplace Safety and Health Management Program ...
On May, 19, OSHA announced it has updated the inspection program that directs agency enforcement resources to establishments with the highest rates of injuries and illnesses based on injury and ...
In the last decade, hundreds of workers have lost their lives to falls every year and even more have been injured from these preventable incidents. In 2021 alone, 680 workers died from falling to a ...
Two workers in Texas were killed June 28 when the unprotected 20-ft-deep trench they were inside collapsed, as trench shields sat unused beside the excavation. They were the 21st and 22nd workers to ...
Soundtrace believes this assessment represents one of the first formal, independent, third-party evaluations of a modern, technology-enabled hearing conservation services platform against OSHA 29 CFR ...
Oregon OSHA encourages employers and workers statewide to participate in Safety Break for Oregon on May 13, a stand-down event focused on workplace safety and health.
Odessa College Occupational Safety and Environmental Technology Department Chair Jessica Jordan, Kristie M. Fuentes Cruz, OSHA compliance assistance specialist in Lubbock, Elizabeth Linda Routh, area ...
Warehousing operation have a higher injury rate compared to other workplaces, but OSHA hopes to help fix that through a new five-year program in Pennsylvania and other nearby states. With the rapid ...