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Modern safety management goes beyond covering traditional workplace accidents to now being equally concerned with illnesses caused on and even off the job. This section will explain what you need to know to avoid both injuries and illnesses, and to track your progress in reaching this goal.
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The American Ladder Institute (ALI) has designated March as National Ladder Safety Month, an opportunity to raise awareness and provide resources to decrease the number of ladder-related incidents. Kat Seiffert, marketing manager of the Chicago-based association, says the observance is in its second year and has garnered growing support from businesses and sponsors.
Twelve federal agencies, including the Department of Labor, are participating in the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks to Children. The Task Force is currently developing a draft strategy on reducing childhood lead exposure. On February 16, 2018, several cabinet heads met to outline the draft strategy. Since childhood lead exposure can occur when […]
Most parts of the country just turned their clocks ahead one hour. The National Safety Council is cautioning employers that workers in certain positions and industries who already have a higher risk of being drowsy may be even more tired than usual this Monday.
The National Safety Council (NSC) notes that while many Americans fear flying, violence, and natural disasters, the odds of dying from preventable, everyday incidents are far greater—the greatest ever, in fact, in United States history.
When you create a workplace noise map using a sound level meter, you may get all of the information you need. However, if the results of your sound level measurements are borderline, or if other factors like variable noise or highly mobile workers are present, you may need to get a little more granular. You […]
Before you put a hearing conservation program in place, and while it is active, you’ll need to do some occupational noise monitoring. Your noise monitoring will determine whether your workers could be exposed at or above the action level; enable you to identify workers who need to be enrolled in a hearing conservation program; and […]
It’s important to identify and address potentially hazardous workplace noise. In addition to hearing loss, noise can increase stress levels, create safety issues, and contribute to a number of health problems. But how can you sort hazardous noise from harmless noise—or even from helpful and useful sounds?
We can’t say this loudly enough: occupational noise may be affecting your workers’ health and safety. Obviously, occupational noise exposures can lead to bilateral hearing loss—but did you know that noise exposure has other potentially serious effects on workers’ health and safety?
The advocacy organization Public Citizen (https://www.citizen.org) is suing the Trump administration, claiming the Department of Labor (DOL) and OSHA are illegally withholding records about workplace injuries and illnesses.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) recordkeeping rule, employers that are required to keep and maintain an OSHA injury and illness 300 log must post their 300A annual summary in each establishment where employee notices are normally posted from February 1 to April 30. The 300A form summarizes the recordable work-related injuries and […]