Henry Wilter's Blog Posts Tagged 'reference' (18)

With symptoms that include tremors, kidney problems, and damage to unborn children, exposure to mercury can be very dangerous.  With this is mind, OSHA has just released two new resources to help prevent and control mercury related injury and illness.  We always recommend…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced its intent to establish a Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee. The committee will advise, consult with and make recommendations to the secretary of labor and the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health on ways to improve the…

OSHA has created new restrictions for online OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 hour courses.  While most providers are currently offline, 360Training has created some very good alternative courses which will satisfy 10 and 30 hour…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will extend for six months its temporary enforcement measures in residential construction. The temporary enforcement measures, extended through September 15, 2012, include priority free on-site compliance assistance, penalty reductions, extended abatement dates, measures to ensure consistency, and increased…

OSHA, in an attempt to enforce whistleblower protection, OSHA 10, has ordered a company to correct their fault by paying an employee over $300,000 and rehiring him. This case will send a clear message to employees violating the whistleblower protection act.  Read the rest of the article…

WASHINGTON - - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safetyand Health Administration (OSHA) has created a web page to help protect workers from hazards they may face during winter storm response and recovery operations.

The Web page provides guidance on how employers and workers involved in cleanup and…

OSHA has recently released a new set of videos relating to construction hazards. In this blog post, we will be looking at videos concerning falls in the construction workplace. We hope you find these valuable and informational. Please check back for additional video topics.  To learn about OSHA safety training courses visit…

US Department of Labor's OSHA sues South Carolina real estate management company to obtain reinstatement and compensation for whistleblower CMM Realty alleged to have violated OSH Act and Clean Air Act.  Will they loose their Real Estate License?

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has sued CMM Realty Inc. for…

Check out the Laboratory Safety Procedures and the new Lab Safety Document. 

WASHINGTON – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today published new educational materials (http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/laboratories/index.html) for…

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Fort Worth, Texas-based tunneling company Southland Contracting Inc. for seven violations of workplace safety standards after one of its employees was killed at the Eastside Water Supply Project in Webster.…

Trench related accidents are some of the most common and terrible deaths associated with construction, yet  Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA, says it is "entirely preventable".   In an effort to increase trenching safety awareness and implementation, OSHA has…

OSHA has updated with hazard alert to hair salon owners after new agency investigations, an FDA warning and incorrect material safety data sheets were sent to hair salons.  The products under question are the Brazilian Blowout Acai Professional Smoothing Solution and Brasil Cacau Cadiveu which can release high amounts of formaldehyde during normal use.  As always, we recommend safety training to help…

Nail gun related injuries are incredibly common -- accounting for +/- 37,000 visits to the emergency room last year.  In an attempt to reduce this number, a new document from NIOSH and OSHA has been released which targets nail gun safety in the workplace.  Read the full article below...



Download the Nail Gun…

Get OSHA 30 hour training online at Easy Safety School -- OSHA's new directive will establish uniform procedures for responding to complaints and incidents of violence in the workplace.  Also, inspections will be help for industries that are at high risk of work related violence.  These include social service work, healthcare and late-night retail…

This year the minimum number of employees required to warrant an inspection under the SST program has decreased from 40 to 20.  OSHA will also be evaluating the program's effectiveness and impact on future compliance issues and OSHA standards.  Here is the article:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational…