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In our EHS Safety Training Week installment of Ask the Expert, brought to you by KPA, we hear from Shawn Smith, Product Director, Training at KPA, who provides guidance, tips, and advice about safety training and how you can more effectively provide it. Ensuring the safety and well-being of employees is paramount in an ever-evolving […]
Fall protection programs are anything but static. They must constantly adjust and adapt when new hazards arise in the workplace, OSHA requirements or ANSI guidelines are released, or to integrate modern technology to keep workers safe. Whenever the program changes, new training or retraining must occur for authorized users in the organization. Attendance at these trainings […]
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season. Is your workplace ready for up to 25 named storms this year, including seven major hurricanes (category 3, 4, or 5) with winds of […]
Falls continue to be a huge problem in all industries, but especially in construction. As we head into another busy summer construction season, the Song of the Week comes from Faith No More and its 1989 funk-metal hit “Falling to Pieces.” The San Francisco band had been together with various lineups for nearly a decade […]
Wisconsin pallet manufacturer Konz Wood Products is facing $177,453 in Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) penalties after a 57-year-old worker was fatally struck by the carriage of a lumber stacking machine. OSHA investigators learned that the company hadn’t ensured the machine was locked out when an employee removed a board jammed in the machine. […]
The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) expects its annual Safety 2024 Professional Development Conference and Expo to be its largest event ever, the ASSP announced May 29. The group’s annual workplace safety education event is scheduled for August 7–9 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The group’s largest conference and exposition to date […]
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to prepare for construction fall hazards. Are you ready for the hazards of summer building, including the construction industry’s deadliest hazard? Falls from heights can cause serious, sometimes fatal, injuries. Fall […]
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to pay $141,307 in lost wages and damages to a probationary mail carrier who was fired after reporting an on-the-job injury to a supervisor and filing an accident report, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of the Solicitor announced May 22. The judgment follows an […]
Granite & Marble Services LLC, a Linden, New Jersey, contractor, has agreed to pay a $13,500 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fine following a worker’s fatal fall at a Bayonne building site, the agency announced May 23. After OSHA cited the contractor with four serious safety violations, the company requested an informal conference with […]
This week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a final rule updating its Hazard Communication standard to incorporate updates to the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). The updated rule takes effect on July 19, but the Song of the Week goes into effect right now: It’s Queens of the […]