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Many employers with more than 10 employees have always been required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to keep injury and illness records. However, they were not required to submit those records to OSHA, unless OSHA sent them an annual survey form. Besides OSHA’s annual survey, employers only had to produce those records […]
If your community is tasked with bucking up its efforts to stem the flow of stormwater, you may be asked (let’s face it, required), to better manage stormwater at your facility. This could be more or less costly depending on how you choose to tackle the problem. Today we will discuss green infrastructure as a […]
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announced a rulemaking proposal designed to enhance the Agency’s ability to identify noncompliant motor carriers. Find out what it entails.
Michigan OSHA (MIOSHA) is encouraging employers and employees “to use extreme care and safety diligence in all work activities.” Find out what’s behind this warning.
Web-based safety training is a dream come true for safety trainers. It provides consistent and up-to-date information, flexibility, evaluation, and systematic documentation—all at a very affordable price. There are many advantages to using self-paced, Web-based training, including: Web-based training allows you to present the same content, in exactly the same way, to any number of […]
Smoking costs American business billions of dollars each year. If you’re still trying to get workers to snuff out this unhealthy habit, you’ll want to learn about a valuable new tool.
Slips, trips, and falls are among the most common cause of lost-workday injuries. Nowhere is the problem worse than in the healthcare industry. Here are some preventive measures implemented in that industry that could help reduce the risk of these incidents in your workplace, too. Research conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and […]
In a final amendment, the EPA has eliminated a costly Clean Air Act requirement that was included in a 2015 rule affecting off-site waste and recovery operations (OSWROs). The 2015 rule comprised residual risk and technology reviews (RTRs) of the 1996 National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the OSWRO sector. In that […]
Q. Is our stormwater system recovery tank, which is an underground steel tank, regulated?