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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 […]
Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), encouraged employers to take advantage of institute resources for addressing drowsy driving. In his “From the Director’s Desk” column in the institute’s November eNews newsletter, he cited a 2017 analysis showing that 37% of U.S. workers get less than the recommended […]
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 […]
On November 7, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) reminded employers to protect workers from wildfire smoke produced by the Mountain Fire, which is impacting air quality in areas around Ventura County. The agency referred employers to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) for the latest information on […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigated 826 worker deaths in fiscal year (FY) 2024—an 11% reduction from 928 in the previous year, the agency announced November 4. FY 2024 ended September 30. The agency noted significant decreases in the number of fatal injuries from trench collapses and falls, two of the leading causes […]
On episode 228 of EHS On Tap, Langdon Dement, Global EHS Advisor for Evotix, talks about tracking safety performance and planning technology initiatives for 2025. This episode is sponsored by Evotix.
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 […]