EPA targets WA for Education about the Danger of the Sun???

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Washingtonians are understandably skeptical when told that they need to protect themselves from the sun. So says the EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency is targeting Washington State with a new program designed to get Washington residents to protect themselves from the harmful rays of the sun.

At issue is the [...]

Materials Handling and Storage Booklet available from OSHA

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Monday July 28th, 2008

First thing this morning, a man and a woman from a local company spent an hour here at our facility trying to get all the PPE that they needed in order to properly cleanup an acid spill at their company. I wasn’t the one helping them [...]

Outdoor Workers at Greater Risk

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According to a report on the NIOSH website (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/outdoor/ ), outdoor workers are at a greater risk of injury then other workers who may not work outside.

The article states…

“Outdoor workers are exposed to many types of hazards that depend on their type of work, geographic region, season, and duration [...]

Imperial Sugar to Challenge OSHA fines (Follow-Up)

Imperial Sugar has filed a “notice of contest” concerning the citations that OSHA brought against it last week in the third largest fine in OSHA history totaling 8.7 million dollars.

President and CEO John Sheptor issued the following statement: “Imperial shares a mission with OSHA: the safety of our employees in the workplace. Imperial has and [...]

OSHA issues the Third Largest Fine in its almost 40 year history

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Imperial Sugar Co. and its two affiliate companies find themselves looking at $8,777,500 in fines from OSHA, the third largest fine ever issued by OSHA.

After the February 2008 explosion in the Port Wentworth, GA plant that resulted in the deaths of 13 employees as well as the hospitalization of [...]

The Changing Nature of First Aid in the Workplace

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Here’s a little known fact… Did you know that prior to 1970 ambulance services were, for the most part unregulated and that most ambulance operators had little training beyond basic first aid? Even worse, some ambulance operators were actually mortuary attendants. Talk about a conflict of interest!!!! Makes you [...]

Construction and work-related musculoskeletal disorders

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If you work in construction, supervise a construction crew or head up the safety program for a construction company then you need to download and read the new NIOSH publication on work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD).
At issue is the inordinately high number of WMSD injuries reported in the construction industry. [...]

What’s the Best Glove for Me?

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All gloves are not created equal. The type of glove that you need will depend on the job you are doing and a glove that is designed for a specific task may not do well for another.

There are literally thousands of different gloves to wade through when trying to [...]

Slips and Falls Part II

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Yesterday’s blog posting covered same level falls due to tripping & slipping. Today we are going to look at the other type of fall hazard, namely Elevated Level Falls.

Elevated Level Falls

Elevated level falls account for the other 40% of all slips and falls injuries. They tend, however, to be [...]

Slips and Falls account for 15% of workplace injuries

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While slips and falls might be hilarious in the movies (Think man slipping on a banana peel), in real life they are serious and costly business. In 1999 slips, trips and falls accounted for over 1 million injuries and 17,000 fatalities; that’s 15% of all disabling injuries for that [...]