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OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, enforces workplace safety regulations and sets requirements for OSHA training at over 7 million workplaces. OSHA regulations govern the activities of the employer. “Employer” means an individual, corporation, association, or partnership in a business affecting commerce that has employees. Currently 23 states and territories have their own
Read moreThe list of possible machinery-related injuries is long and bloody. In fact, every year around 18,000 workers who operate and maintain machinery suffer injuries, which include severed fingers and other limbs, crushed hands and arms, nasty cuts, and other injuries too horrible to mention. It’s not surprising that OSHA has a nine-part standard on machinery
Read moreOSHA announced today that the Severe Violators Enforcement Program directive is effective June 18. The agency announced in April that it was implementing the program to focus on employers who continually disregard their legal obligations to protect their workers. OSHA’s SVEP focuses enforcement efforts on employers who willfully and repeatedly endanger workers by exposing them
Read moreThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) set the date of June 15, 2010 for the direct final rule requiring employers to notify their workers of all Hexavalent Chromium exposures. Under the old rule, employers were only required to notify employees when they experienced exposures exceeding the permissible exposure limit (PEL). Exposures to Hexavalent Chromium
Read moreRail carrier ordered to rescind discipline and pay worker $5,000 in punitive damagesNEW YORK – A whistleblower investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that CSX Transportation Inc. retaliated against a veteran employee in its Selkirk, N.Y., dispatch office who repeatedly reported safety concerns to his managers, the
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