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Blueprint2safety.com is pleased to announce we are finishing up work on the much anticipated RN CEU program. Once completed the RN 12-pack will provide 12 CEs to RNs that successfully complete all the lessons in the program.
This continuing nursing education activity will be submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association, (OBN-001-91), an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Once approved, RNs will have an easy, affordable resource for all of their CEU requirements.
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Our friends at VPPAC.org have just released their hugely popular Excavation Safety Webinar on their safety training site. This Webinar presented by ASSE and VPPAC covers ANSI as well as OSHA regulations regarding Trenching and Excavations. To purchase and view this informative Webinar go to the VPPAC.org e-learning portal here. |
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OSHA has proposed $115,000 in penalties against a Florida company for two alleged willful and one serious violation of OSHA standards uncovered during an inspection of a company construction site.
Three employees contracted from a temporary help company were injured after they were instructed by company supervisors to clean the inside of a tank that contained concrete slurry waste. Two of the employees were admitted to a local hospital with second-degree chemical burns.
These employees were placed in a hazardous situation by the company's supervisors who ignored OSHA standards and the warning of their own safety professional, according to Darlene Fossum, OSHA's area director in Fort Lauderdale.
OSHA has cited the company for two willful violations, with proposed penalties of $110,000, for instructing the employees to enter a confined space without first identifying and correcting any possible hazards, which exposed the employees to concrete slurry waste. The employer failed to instruct employees on the hazards associated with confined spaces and failed to train the employees on the use of protective and emergency equipment. A serious violation with a $5,000 penalty has been issued for failing to require employees to wear appropriate protective equipment, including eye and face protection, while working with a hazardous material.
The company has 15 business days to contest the citations and proposed penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. |
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Amputations are among the most severe and disabling workplace injuries, often resulting in permanent disability. According to the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA) thousands of U.S. workers across all industries suffer workplace amputations. In Tennessee alone, 352 amputations were reported for the 2007 fiscal year.
The majority of workplace amputations occur in the manufacturing sector. These injuries result from the use and care of machines such as saws, presses, conveyors, and bending, rolling, or shaping machines as well as from powered and non-powered hand tools, forklifts, doors, trash compactors, and during materials handling activities.
“TOSHA believes employee exposure to unguarded or inadequately guarded machines is a primary cause of amputations,” said John Winkler, TOSHA Administrator. “We feel it is very important to help make sure facilities with machines that could cause amputations are properly safeguarded.”
To reduce these numbers, TOSHA has implemented a special emphasis program that focuses on amputations. This program is designed to identify and reduce the workplace hazards which are causing or likely to cause amputations.
In order to target specific industries with high amputation rates, TOSHA compliance officers use injury reports from the Workers’ Compensation Division of the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. TOSHA also provides information on amputation awareness to industry professionals in all their training seminars.
The best ways to prevent amputation are through safeguarding machinery and lockout tagout, TOSHA says. |
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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced the outcome of its Lead in Construction Standard lookback review in today's Federal Register.
"Employers and employees in the construction industry stand to benefit from the results of this lookback review," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Edwin G. Foulke, Jr. "Certain construction jobs still experience high levels of airborne lead and the retention of this Standard is necessary to ensure employees are protected from high lead exposure."
OSHA's Directorate of Evaluation and Analysis conducts retrospective reviews of final standards and regulations in accordance with the regulatory review provisions of Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and Section 5 of Executive Order 12866 on Regulatory Planning and Review (58 FR 51735, 51739, October 4, 1993). These retrospective reviews are more commonly referred to as "lookback," or Section 610, reviews.
The goal of the Lead in Construction Standard is to protect construction employees from lead-related health effects. OSHA estimates that in 2003, 649,000 employees were exposed to lead at levels that may trigger application of the standard. OSHA regularly enforces the lead standard (29 CFR 1926.62) in the construction industry. Between 1993 and 2003, federal OSHA and State-Plan states conducted 4,834 inspections and issued 12,556 citations.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees. OSHA's role is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. For more information, visit www.osha.gov. |
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