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September 2015 newsletter

FDR Safety

7 Tips for Building a Strong Contractor Safety Program. See you at the National Safety Council Congress. 7 Tips for Building a Strong Contractor Safety Program. Require that contractors provide you with documentation of their safety performance and safety program. Does the contractor have a plan to do inspections?

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2015 Safest Year Yet for U.S. Mining

Construction Equipment

Preliminary data released by the Mine Safety and Health Administration confirm that 2015 was the safest year in U.S. mining history, both in the number of deaths and mining's fatal and injury rates, which are calculated based on hours of miners' exposure.

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Amputations in Manufacturing – A New OSHA National Emphasis Program

FDR Safety

This Instruction supersedes OSHA Instruction CPL 03-00-019, National Emphasis Program on Amputations that was published in August of 2015. Mike Taubitz spent many years in top positions at General Motors, including stints as Global Safety Director and Global Regulatory Liaison.

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OSHA Announces 2021 Citation Penalty Increase

Construction Junkie

Ever since the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act was passed by Congress in 2015 , OSHA has been required to increase the maximum penalty they can assess businesses for violations. You can find out more about gravity based penalty amounts on OSHA’s website by clicking or tapping here.

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Avoiding common OSHA recordkeeping mistakes

FDR Safety

All affected employers need to finalize their OSHA 300 log data about work-related injuries and illnesses that required medical treatment beyond first aid. In this case, you did not count the Monday of the injury, but you would count the four other workdays the employee was scheduled to work, but could not come in.

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Examining OSHA’s Pending IIPP Standard

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OSHA is directing its efforts toward enforcing a standard in which employers nationwide will be required to establish a thorough, written injury and illness prevention program (IIPP). IIPPs aren’t a new idea; most companies already have a program in place designed to reduce or eliminate worksite health and safety hazards.

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2013 Interpretations of OSHA Regulations

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Even while creating new regulations and amending current ones to fit the workplace’s changing safety standards, OSHA is hard at work providing guidance material to help employers follow their rules, and answering questions and providing guidance on existing rules. December 27, 2013. February 4, 2013.

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