Health & Safety Compliance

Two of the criteria OSHA used to identify these workplaces are the facility’s Days Away, Restrictions and Transfers (DART) rate and Days Away from Work Injury and Illness (DAFWII) case rate.

A facility manager’s first reaction should be to calculate both rates to see if OHSA will potentially be showing up at the facility. The DART rate calculation is N ÷ EH * (200,000): N being the number of cases involving days away and/or restricted work activity and/or job transfers; EH being the total number...

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there more than 500,000 “serious” hand, finger and wrist injuries in private industry each year. These types of injuries can be categorized in several different ways: abrasions, lacerations, sprains, strains, skin irritations, fractures, thermal burns, chemical burns, contusions, avulsions or amputations. It is important from the recordkeeping perspective to understand how to classify hand and finger injuries. The...

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All employers are required to instruct workers on health and safety (H&S) regulations and the hazards each employee may face while on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has promulgated H&S standards that have an effect on employers and their employees within the United States.

Employers are required to have a comprehensive safety program that includes site-specific safety information, if the program is applicable to the workplace....

Is your facility prepared to maintain its environmental compliance throughout the year?  Many manufacturing companies are struggling with ways to cost costs while still producing a high quality product and meeting the needs of their employees. One area that tends to be continually looked at from a cost-savings perspective is environmental, health and safety (EH&S). Often times, it is common for facilities to cut EH&S costs to save on overall operating expenses with the hope they will not be...

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Hazardous material regulations are often found to be confusing and dense, and in our experience people often are not even clear on the delineation between a hazardous material and a hazardous waste. In response to the frequent questions we receive on this topic we have prepared a brief primer on hazardous materials management.

First, a few key words need to be defined:

• Solid Waste - any discarded material that is (1) abandoned, (2) recycled, burned to...

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions for workers in the United States. One tool in achieving this objective is to develop and enforce regulatory standards. Subsequently many regulations have been promulgated which are required to be fulfilled by businesses and employers. One such regulation is the development of a Fire Prevention Plan under the requirements (29 CFR 1910.39) for general industry. 

If a facility...

 The former tire collection facility is situated on 140 acres located in Sycamore, Ohio. The scrap tire facility started collecting tires in the 1950s and, at the time of the fire, contained an estimated...

Look around, everything we do today is done electronically. In the eWorld, we can find the answer to almost every question in minutes rather than hours, days or weeks. However, with all of this information available at our fingertips it is becoming harder and harder to discern what information is valuable and what information is not. This task is even more cumbersome for those individuals responsible for managing environmental, health and safety (EH&S) functions for their company because these...

There have been few regulatory items that have caused more frustration than a facility managing their MSDSs. The monthly, weekly, and daily commitments that it takes to properly acquire, distribute, and maintain MSDSs has grown over the years. The problem is compounded because multiple regulatory agencies (EPA & OSHA) rely on data that is (or is supposed to be) found on the MSDS. For detailed information on our MSDS management program, contact Kyle Forsythe in our Dublin, Ohio office at 614.798.99...

Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard (29 CFR 1910.147) that provides all of the requirements for the isolation of hazardous energy for industrial and research facilities. According to OSHA, an estimated 120 fatal accidents and 50,000 injuries are avoided each year because employers implement and enforce comprehensive LOTO programs. For those individuals who do sustain injuries from exposure to hazardous energy, an average of 24 days of...