Category: Safety

Back to basics: OSHA’s process safety management enforcement

Application of the PSM standard was covered extensively in a new directive for OSHA’s compliance safety and health officers (CSHOs). At the end of last year, the agency issued its updated enforcement directive, which became effective January 24.

Reducing silica exposure on the job

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), exposure to respirable crystalline silica, or silica, is a serious threat to approximately 300,000 workers in over 75,000 U.S. general industry and maritime workplaces. Approximately one-third of these workers are in high-exposure-risk jobs, such as operations using sand products and certain product manufacturing operations.

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3 ways to bring new energy to your safety meetings

Employee engagement is necessary for employees to retain information and understand new procedures. Luckily, there are ways to breathe new life into your safety meetings and redesign their structure in ways employees can better understand and engage with.

Q&A: Is distance satisfactory to protect electrical disconnects?

In this EHS Hotline Q&A, an EHS Hero subscriber asked whether distance is satisfactory for protecting power distribution boxes (breaker boxes, disconnects ranging from anywhere from 50 volts to 440 volts) from damage in active warehouses. In this article, get the answer given by our in-house subject matter experts with years of hands-on experience and specialized knowledge.

OSHA still working on six economically significant rules

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) continues to work on six economically significant rulemakings, including developing a workplace violence prevention rule, according to a March 14 Department of Labor (DOL) Federal Register notice (89 Fed. Reg. 18744).

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