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8 Feb 2017, 9:46 am
However, it could also be the result of a lack of a safety guard, a poorly designed safety guard, missing reflective tape, or obscured reflectors. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 9:37 am
Which Occupations Have Highest Risk of Serious Workplace Injuries? [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 6:30 am
Vehicle selection/Maintenance Employers should buy or lease vehicles with high safety ratings. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 3:30 pm
This is important, since almost half of the victims of Philadelphia fatal crashes were not occupants of a car in 2016.Called the Office of Complete Streets, this agency will work to make streets safer for cyclists, pedestrians, and even mass transit passengers. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 3:00 pm
Falling Tree Hazards I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento Tree Injury Lawyer. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 2:07 pm
CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has established an 8-hour, time-weighted average 85 dB(A) recommended exposure limit to protect most workers from developing hearing loss from noise exposure over a 40-year career. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 10:41 am
The particulars of negligence pled included that they had failed to ensure that the company’s tanks were properly inspected and maintained, had failed to ensure adequate safety procedures were in place and being properly followed, including safety measures required under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, and had failed to ensure workers were properly trained. [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 1:44 am
The article says that statistics provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show that the “recent-year truck-occupant fatality numbers have generally been on a downward trend,” indicating that the “increases of fatalities the DOL’s post notes, by that logic, must be coming from somewhere other than crashes. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 2:03 pm
“The rule implementing the Executive Order on Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces does not add any extra layers of review,” Scott said, “rather it would fill the data gap by requiring contractors to disclose whether they have violations of 14 long-standing labor laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act, and non-discrimination laws. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 1:09 pm
This case reminds us that employers should consider early involvement of legal counsel in their occupational health and safety investigations, alongside consulting agencies and internal personnel, to use legal privilege to the greatest extent possible. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 8:00 am
The appeals panel stated that the Occupational and Safety Health Act is not a strict liability statute. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 6:01 am
Opioid abuse has become a serious safety issue in car accidents and commercial truck accidents. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 6:01 am
Opioid abuse has become a serious safety issue in car accidents and commercial truck accidents. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 1:44 am
The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) was created in 1996 to provide resources, research, and to suggest safety improvement and laws to protect workers. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 5:18 pm
The last press release from OSHA was on January 19, 2017, the day before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President.After a robust effort under Obama Administration direction to help make the workplace safer, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), an agency created post the National Commission on Workers' Compensation (1972), has now just come to a screeching halt in the release of information. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 3:03 am
These two vehicles fell short of receiving the highest safety ratings by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 11:44 am
Specifically, the controversial ergonomics rule adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration toward the end of the Clinton Administration was successfully nullified pursuant to the CRA when the subsequent inauguration of a Republican President resulted in the same political party controlling both Houses of Congress and the Presidency. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 8:52 am
Resistance to Federal Workplace Safety Regulations House Bill 70 is an effort to resist efforts by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to regulate in certain areas. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 7:18 am
Denying a petition to review an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission finding of multiple willful violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Seventh Circuit concluded that the Commission reasonably imputed to the employer a supervisor’s knowledge of his own misconduct in failing to follow safety procedures that could have prevented his injury from hazardous chemicals. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 12:56 pm
The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has levied fines against New Jersey-based Ned Stevens Gutter Cleaning and General Contracting of Massachusetts Inc. after a second incident involving a worker falling from a roof happened within the same year. [read post]
