OSHA issues guidelines to retailers for holiday sales events
... y's labor and employment practice, discussed what should be top of mind for retail employers. What is the essence of OSHA's guidelines? They want retailers to do more than throw their doors open....
View ArticleLabor Eases Some Workplace Rules, but Fails to Impress Business Group
... maintain standards, lessen the burden on employers and help grow our economy." The visa rules are final, while the OSHA rules are open for comment until Dec 20, the department said, and will take...
View ArticleCity worker suffers severe head injury
A Fairfield wastewater facility employee, Larry Hanshaw, was taken to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Tuesday for an injury he suffered on the job.
View ArticleVery High Blood Lead Levels Among Adults - United States, 2002-2011
... United States ( 2 ). In contrast to the CDC reference level, prevailing Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) lead standards allow workers removed from lead exposure to return to...
View ArticleWorker who fell from bridge improves
A 19-year-old construction worker who suffered life-threatening injuries when he fell 40 feet from the Interstate 90 bridge over the Mississippi River is now recovering "extraordinarily well" from his...
View ArticleLBA University Releases New Cold Weather Hazards Training Guide
LBA University offers a proven Cold Exposure Safety course. The online course is OSHA compliant and covers cold stress and the various hazards unique to working in cold and often freezing conditions.
View ArticleBlack Friday Shopping Injuries Blacken The Holidays
... by the end of the ordeal. Given the climate, injuries become all too common." Things have gotten bad enough that OSHA recently had to come out with a set of guidelines that retailers can follow to...
View ArticleOSHA fines Huntington Postal Service $212,500
... and one serious violation and proposed a total of $212,500 in fines, the agency said in a news release. Nationally, OSHA in July for the first time used its authority to seek "enterprise-wide...
View ArticleOSHA Claims Some Berlin Biomass Contractors Put Workers At Risk
... included potential cave-ins, falls, scaffold collapse, crushing, exposure to lead and electrocution hazards," said OSHA spokesman Ted Fitzgerald. Babcock & Wilcox's first priority is worker...
View ArticleWorker recovering following near-fatal bridge fall
Logan Goodell of Wheeler fell on Nov. 7 as he was installing concrete forms. He was still strapped into his harness when rescuers reached him.
View ArticleNH gunpowder plant owner gets 10-20 years in blast
... benefit of production, and workers lives are not - and must never be - considered part of the cost of doing business." OSHA's investigation of the plant explosion resulted in 16 willful and over 30...
View ArticleParamount Builders will not contest OSHA fines
... the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, saying that the company has addressed "most" of the citations. OSHA, a bureau of the U.S. Labor Department, says it has cited Paramount...
View ArticleStatement by Assistant Secretary of Labor Dr. David Michaels on sentencing in...
... Hampshire Department of Safety, specifically the Fire Marshal and the State Police, during our investigation." Note: OSHA's investigation of the May 2010 explosion at Sanborn's Black Mag gunpowder...
View ArticleExamining the costs of damaged goods
... million work-related injuries Causes of manual cutting lacerations Glass Magazine Reported cases per industry segment OSHA $36,500 = the average cost of just one cut or laceration Forging Industry...
View ArticleWhat's that you said? Your restaurant's too loud, I can't hear you
I was in a restaurant recently that was so loud, the acoustics so bad, I walked out.
View ArticleFederal government has enriched our lives
... just four years after President Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act. It isn't hard to trace most of OSHA's regulations to deaths and maiming caused by some unsafe product or...
View ArticleRetail Workers Ask Themselves What Thanksgiving With Family Is Worth
Many retailers will be opening early on Thanksgiving Day for Black Friday sales.
View ArticleLandscaper fined by OSHA in stump-grinding death
... Tree Service "did not ensure that employees were furnished with tools and equipment that were in a safe condition." The OSHA notice dated Nov. 14 states Morasse was using a Carlton model stump...
View ArticleDon't let deals turn deadly
In 2008, Damour took a temporary security job at a Walmart in Valley Stream, N.Y., to help manage its Black Friday crowds.
View ArticleWalmart settles suit over worker's death
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled a multimillion-dollar suit that sought to hold the Arkansas-based retail giant accountable for a construction worker's death during renovations at its Walpole store.
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