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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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Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the most dangerous construction safety hazards. Are you familiar with the construction industry’s deadliest safety hazards? The “fatal four” or “focus four” safety hazards are caught-in/-between hazards, electrocution, falls, and struck-by […]
On November 15, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on its investigation into a July 31 hazardous ammonia release at the Cuisine Solutions, Inc., food processing facility in Sterling, Virginia. On July 31, anhydrous ammonia was accidentally released at Cuisine Solutions’ facility. At the time of the incident, 286 […]
Valenti’s Bakery LLC of Paterson, New Jersey, is facing $194,691 in new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines following a follow-up inspection, the agency announced November 19. The employer now faces a total of $385,221 in OSHA fines. The agency performed a follow-up inspection in May after the employer failed to prove it had […]
A Syracuse, New York, iron foundry faces accumulated penalties of nearly $1 million after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) again cited the employer for workplace health and safety violations, the agency announced November 15. Frazer & Jones LLC operates one of the nation’s largest ductile and malleable iron foundries, which has been operating […]
In 2023, nonfatal worker injuries and illnesses declined from 2022 levels, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced November 8. Private sector employers reported 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2023—a decrease of 8.4% from 2022, the BLS reported in its annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII). The decrease […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) should take steps to better identify and address ergonomic hazards at warehouse and delivery companies, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in a recent report. The transportation and warehousing sector, which includes e-commerce warehouses and “last-mile” consumer delivery, had the highest serious injury and illness rate of all […]
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine the costs of safety failures. The failure to put safety protections in place can be costly, resulting in large Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines, injuries, illnesses, and fatalities, as well […]
The American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) has updated a key national voluntary consensus standard for construction and demolition sites, which are among the most hazardous work environments. The revised standard is helping to elevate World Standards Week, an event held Nov. 12-14 by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to promote best practices in […]
MFA Inc., a Missouri farm cooperative, faces a $241,887 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fine following an employee’s fatal engulfment in a storage bin, the agency announced October 29. The agency initiated an inspection following the employer’s fatality report and found that three employees of MFA Inc., operating as MFA Rail Car, were removing […]
All workplaces should prioritize hand safety, especially if workers are using dangerous tools and machines that have pinch points, rotating parts, hot and cold spots, or automation. Use this checklist to help ensure proper worker hand safety.