FDR Safety

JANUARY 9, 2018

I’m finding clients who have excellent lockout/tagout programs but who have not taken the necessary step of identifying tasks where LOTO is not feasible. The OSH Review Commission has ruled that tasks like set-up of a machine are not part of production; hence LOTO is required. Your only recourse is to prove LOTO is not feasible.

Feasibility 198

Feasibility Risk OSHA Commissioning 198

FDR Safety

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

If there is an OSHA citation most likely to be overturned on appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission it would be one issued under the General Duty clause. There was a feasible and useful method to correct the hazard. General Duty citations from OSHA may not hold up. By Jim Stanley. President, FDRsafety.

OSHA 120

OSHA Safety Employment Commissioning 120

FDR Safety

APRIL 11, 2016

Congressman Steiger (one of the Co-Sponsors of the OSHAct) in fact stated: The conference bill takes the approach of this House to the general duty requirement that an employer maintain a safe and healthful working environment. Such hazards are the type that can readily be detected on the basis of the basic human senses.

OSHA 120

OSHA Injury Inspections Safety 120

Job Order Contracting

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

This standard is intended to be used to ensure that the equipment and systems are maintained in a safe operating condition, there are no parts, pieces, conditions or situations that my cause injury or endanger the users or pedestrians when used in accordance with the manufacturers placards, recommendations, instructions or guidelines.

Inspections 100

Inspections Equipment Electrical Safety 100