Showing posts with label osha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label osha. Show all posts
Monday, December 30, 2024

Amazon's OSHA Deal Transforms Warehouse Worker Safety Nationwide

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The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced a significant settlement with Amazon that amounts to a landmark agreement for warehouse work...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

How OSHA Standards Revolutionize Workplace Safety

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Jordan Barab’s recent testimony before the House Education and Workforce Committee Subcommittee on Workforce Protections focused extensively...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

OSHA Proposes a Workplace Heat Standard

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OSHA’s proposed new workplace heat standard requires employers to develop a plan to identify and address heat hazards. This plan must includ...
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Federal judge affirms 2022 citation, penalties against United Airlines for failing to protect employee seriously injured when 737 crushes foot

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A federal administrative law judge has affirmed safety violations against United Airlines related to a 2021 incident at Newark Liberty Inter...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

OSHA Cites Oakland NJ Company with $257,931 in Penalties

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A U.S. Department of Labor inspection in June 2023 at an Oakland, NJ manufacturing company — that followed reports of two workers being inju...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Analysis of the OSHA Report on Severe Injury: A Seven-Year Lookback

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published the "Severe Injury Report: A Seven-Year Lookback"   summarizing...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Wayne NJ Contractor Fined $180K for Exposing Workers to Energized Power Lines

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The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with a New Jersey building contractor who allowed their subcontractors...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

OSHA Issues Extreme Heat Hazard Alert

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The U.S. Department of Labor announced that it's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a heat hazard alert to remind...
Friday, July 28, 2023

President Biden Announces New Actions to Protect Workers from Extreme Heat

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Millions of American workers are currently experiencing the effects of extreme heat, which is growing in intensity, frequency, and duration ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

New OSHA Reporting Requirements For Injuries and Illnesses

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The U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule requiring certain employers in designated high-hazard industries to submit injury and il...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

OSHA Cites Main Line Contractor Corp. of Newark NJ for 21 Violations and $333,052 in Penalties

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A series of inspections by the U.S. Department of Labor has found a Newark-based construction contractor defying federal safety regulations ...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Fireworks, pyrotechnics industry employers strongly urged to make worker safety a priority on July 4

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Since the founding fathers declared the colonies independent in 1776, cannons, fireworks, and today, extensive pyrotechnic displays have bec...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

OSHA: America Airlines Fined for Retaliating Against Worker Who Reported Hazardous Fumes in Cabin

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Federal safety and health investigators have determined that one of the nation's largest airlines retaliated against flight attendants w...
Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Work-Related Respiratory Disease Rate Soars

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Private industry employers reported 2.6 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in 2021, a decrease of 1.8 percent from 2020, the ...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Top 10 Workplace Safety and Health Violations

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The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of worksites by federal OSHA for all industries....
Monday, August 29, 2022

Appeals Court Rejects Effort to Compel OSHA to Retain Healthcare ETS

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On Friday, an Appellate Court rejected the UNIONS' effort, including the National Nurses, United, to compel the Occupational Safety and ...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Safety and Health Topics: Heat Stress

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Workers' compensation claims result from heat stress and exposure. As the Mid-West and Northeast heatwave is now soaring to record temp...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Jury awards $650K in damages for Massachusetts contractor’s unlawful retaliation against injured immigrant worker

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A federal jury in the District of Massachusetts has found that a Massachusetts employer and his company retaliated against an employee who r...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

OSHA Fines Roofing Company $360,531

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An Illinois roofing contractor – with a history of violating federal safety standards and ignoring safety citations – was cited again by the...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Injury Caused by Defeated Machine Guard Results in OSHA Fine of $159,522

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An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston was hospitalized with serious injuries after b...