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  • Safety & Health April 6, 2016

    National Safety Council News Alert

    Washington – OSHA has issued a final rule that revises requirements for face and eye protection for workers in general industry, construction and longshoring, as well as at shipyards and marine terminals. The final rule incorporates the most recent national consensus standards approved by the American National Standards Institute and is intended to make sure

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  • Safety & Health April 6, 2016

    Fall Protection

    Prevention of falls from heights is a concern at many worksites. Certain heights require various types of fall protection. For example, the General Industry (1910) height is 4 feet above a lower level. For Construction (1926), the height is 6 feet above a lower level. On scaffolding, fall protection is required at 10 feet. In

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  • Safety & Health April 4, 2016

    Can You Stand It At Work?

    Can You Stand It At Work?More specifically do you have to stand to do your job? Other questions that come into play are: •    Does your employer require that you not sit while doing your job? •    Are you standing on concrete or other hard surfaces during your whole shift?It would not seem to be

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  • Safety & Health March 31, 2016

    OSHA’s Final Rule on Silica

     – click video to pause –  News Release US LABOR DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES FINAL RULE TO IMPROVE U.S. WORKERS’ PROTECTION FROM THE DANGERS OF ‘RESPIRABLE’ SILICA DUST Updated rule amends silica exposure regulations for first time since 1971 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a final rule to

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  • Safety & Health March 31, 2016

    Workers Memorial Day

    Although decades of struggle by workers and their unions have resulted in significant improvements in working conditions, the toll of workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths remains enormous. Each year more than 56,000 workers die from job injuries and illnesses and another 6 million are injured. The unions of the AFL-CIO remember these workers on April

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