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Hazard Identification:
Don't Let Safety Gear Create Hazards of Its Own
November 2011
Greg Watson was part of a crew attempting to fix a horizontal rock drill being used on a construction site in Aspen, Colo., on August 11. Crew members were reinforcing the retaining walls at an apartment complex and were wearing their safety gear--in Watson's case, that included a fall-protection cord. When the drill started up again, Watson's safety cord was caught in the drill mechanism, wrapping him around the drill and mangling his body. . . .
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Hazard Identification:
Federal OSHA National Emphasis Program to
Address Hazards of Primary Metals Manufacturing
August 2011
In a recent review of workplace injury and fatality statistics, one industry leaped out at federal OSHA: the primary metals industry, a group of manufacturing facilities in SIC group 33 that perform metal smelting and refining. Of the 20 industries reporting the highest numbers of nonfatal injuries and illnesses, five were in the primary metals group, and more than one-quarter of all cases of elevated blood lead levels occurred in this industry segment. . . .
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Trainer's Handbook:
Clothes Make the Worker And Make the Worker Safe
June 2009
All workplaces have dress codes, and all dress codes have a purpose. Workers may be required to wear certain clothes to identify them as representatives of their employer, as when meter-readers wear the insignia of their utility company so that homeowners don't mistake them for trespassers. They may be required to wear clothes that protect the products that they work with, as when clean-room workers wear shoe covers, or cooks wear hairnets. They may also be required to wear specific clothing or observe dress restrictions for safety reasons related to their jobs. . . .
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Personal Protective Equipment:
Is Your 'Simple Solution' Too Good to Be True?
March 2009
Most of us have encountered a deal that was too good to be true. Maybe that great price on a new car applied only to a single vehicle on the dealer's lot that sold before you got there, or maybe that Nigerian official trying to flee the country with his fortune intact was really an Internet scammer trying to flee with your fortune in his pocket. . . .
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News Note: Survey Finds PPE Compliance Problems
January 2009
Too many workers aren't using personal protective equipment (PPE), according to a survey of top safety professionals carried out by Kimberly-Clark Professional. Only 14.58 percent of the safety pr . . .
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DOWNLOAD: J.F. Shea Company, Inc. Docket No. 06-R2D3-1539
4/9/2008
Employer maintains a construction company. Between October 21, 2005, and March 17, 2006, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (the Division), through Associate Safety Engineer Dennis Barker, conducted and accident investigation at a place of employment maintained by Employer at Market Street, and Riverside Drive, Redding, California (the site). On April 11, 2006, the Division cited Employer for an alleged serious violation of section 1597(h) (failure to ensure seat belt used on jobsite vehicle) of the occupations safety and health standards and orders found in Title 8, California Code of Regulations, and proposed a civil penalty of $20,250. . . .
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