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  Following that announcement, the Oregon Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OR-OSHA”) published its plans to repeal at least some aspects of its COVID-19 workplace safety rules once the 70 percent target is reached. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 1:39 pm by Giles Peaker
Camelot undertook to comply fully with all health and safety, environmental health, electrical and gas safety regulations. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 11:13 am
According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), more than 60 percent of wrong-way collisions involve at least one driver with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) above the legal limit of 0.08. [read post]
9 Jun 2021, 8:03 am
On June 3, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Standards Board) voted to readopt proposed revisions to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (“Revised ETS”). [read post]
After several fits and starts, on June 3, 2021, the Cal/OSHA Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board finally passed revised Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) that now take into account employee vaccination status and loosening restrictions from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and California’s elimination of the colored Tier system. [read post]
The Amendments also would address an ambiguity we previously reported concerning the Act’s scope by expressly limiting the types of employer policies that workplace safety committees will be entitled to review to only those that concern occupational safety and health (and not all policies relating to any matter addressed by the New York State Labor Law). [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 6:45 am by Michael Pines
Total47334675Puerto Rico3439Key Takeaways from 2019 Data Per vehicle miles traveled in 2019, motorcyclist fatalities occurred nearly 29 times more frequently than passenger car occupant fatalities in traffic crashes.Thirty percent of motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes in 2019 were riding without valid motorcycle licenses.In 2019 motorcycle riders involved in fatal crashes had higher percentages of alcohol impairment than drivers of any other motor vehicle type (29% for… [read post]
8 Jun 2021, 6:35 am by Don Asher
  The Danger of Serious or Deadly Forklift Accidents The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (“OSHA”) warns that workers face many different risks of bodily injury when operating any kind of forklift. [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 2:18 pm by Sara Alexis Levine Abarbanel
On June 3, 2021, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, the standard-setting agency within Cal/OSHA, adopted revisions to the November 30, 2020, emergency COVID-19 prevention standards, reworking the masking, testing, and distancing requirements of the previous rule. [read post]
7 Jun 2021, 9:59 am by Lynn L. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton
On June 3, 2021, the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (ANSES) published an interview with Aurélie Niaudet, who is in charge of assessing the risks associated with physical agents. [read post]
Pedestrians are 14 times more likely than vehicle occupants to die in a car crash; cyclists are eight times more likely; and pedestrians in “high-poverty neighborhoods” are three times more likely. [read post]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) previously published guidance that designated adverse reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine as a recordable injury if the employee receives the vaccination pursuant to a mandatory vaccination policy. [read post]
6 Jun 2021, 9:20 am
 Pix Credit  HERE; video may be accessed HERE Now well over a generation ago, Michel Foucault famously noted that the regulation was about virtually anything but intimate relations. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 12:33 pm by HRWatchdog
The California Chamber of Commerce has urged the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) to act in accordance with the CDC and the Governor. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 11:39 am by Bronte Mehdian
Cal/OSHA defines a respirator as a device “approved by the National institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to protect the wearer from particulate matter, such as an N95 filtering facepiece respirator. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 10:39 am by Kevin Mayer (US)
The National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will conduct a virtual meeting on June 22, 2021, to address current workplace issues and its prior work. [read post]