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As required by the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the EPA has issued its second annual plan identifying existing chemical substances for which risk evaluations are expected to be initiated or completed in 2018, the resources necessary for their completion, the status of each risk evaluation initiated but not yet completed, […]
How do you best conduct an environmental and safety management system (ESMS)? BLR’s webinar, Environmental and Safety Management System Excellence: How to Engage, Involve, and Exchange Information, explains how to exchange and demonstrate environmental and safety values through an effective environmental and safety management system within your company.
Orientation is your first—and perhaps best—chance to shape new employee safety attitudes and behavior. It’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss. New employees are at considerably greater risk of injury than more seasoned workers. That’s because: New employees often have insufficient skills and job knowledge. Even if they are skilled and experienced, they lack […]
Our Safety Training Tips editor gives some advice for training your employees on the essentials of machine guarding. Amputations are all too common injuries for employees who work on or around machines. Because of these and other sometimes gruesome machine dangers, OSHA has extensive regulations for machine guarding in 29 CFR 1910 Subpart O Machinery […]
To receive management support, safety programs must be objectively evaluated in quantifiable terms. Here are effective ways to do it. It’s often been said that business runs on numbers. Profit. Loss. Return on investment. It’s the language senior management speaks and understands. And it’s the reason many safety managers who talk exclusively in terms of […]
Outreach. A CBP3 requires timely communication on progress, feedback, and forward planning. Key outreach points a municipality must consider include: Effective and well-documented transparency and participation; Opportunities for stakeholders, property owners, businesses, and institutions to become partners in planning and implementation; Access for stakeholders to all relevant documents, plans, meetings, and reports; Measurement and evaluation […]
Summer is only a couple of weeks away and the temperatures are rising. Whether your employees get mugged by scorchers on or off the job, they need to know how to prevent health problems caused by high temperatures. To respond to the heat hazards of summer, OSHA advises employers to: Provide heat stress training to […]
The deadlines to submit air emissions inventory reports vary by jurisdiction, ranging from early February through July. Do you know your state’s reporting deadline?
The holiday season is here and while people are gearing up for family gatherings, they’re also readying themselves for the onslaught of winter illnesses. EHS Daily Advisor this week wrote about preparing for a potential “tripledemic” of respiratory illnesses, including influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which could lead to a lot of pain. […]
One day before it was scheduled to begin enforcing its 2017 standard to protect workers from exposure to beryllium, OSHA announced that it will delay enforcing many of the standard’s provisions.