FDR Safety

MAY 13, 2024

Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. This article is intended to introduce you to a long-accepted concept recognized in OSHA and ANSI standards but is not well known or understood. A feasibility assessment usually takes less than an hour.

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FDR Safety

MAY 13, 2024

Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. This article is intended to introduce you to a long-accepted concept recognized in OSHA and ANSI standards but is not well known or understood. A feasibility assessment usually takes less than an hour.

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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. From a compliance standpoint, OSHA can cite you.

Feasibility 198

Feasibility Risk OSHA Commissioning 198

FDR Safety

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The term “zero energy” is not the same as the control of hazardous energy, and is not found in any OSHA regulations or materials or in U.S. Examples of such impacts are: •impeding efficient and effective equipment designs when tasks (e.g., national consensus standards (e.g.,

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Design OSHA Feasibility Regulation 156

FDR Safety

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

General Duty citations from OSHA may not hold up. General Duty citations from OSHA may not hold up. 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. Need safety professionals?

OSHA 120

OSHA Safety Employment Commissioning 120

FDR Safety

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

A decision by the Occupational Safety Health and Review Commission offers importance guidance to all industries, particularly stamping, about when OSHA’s lockout/tagout regulations should be applied and when not. When a light curtain is penetrated, no energy is transmitted to the clutch.

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Commissioning Ohio Injury OSHA 120

FDR Safety

APRIL 11, 2016

Section 5(a)(1) was included in the OSH Act to give OSHA a means to address “recognized hazards” where no OSHA standard existed, but it was never intended as a replacement for rulemaking. Indeed, as expressed by Congressman Steiger in the Legislative History of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, S.

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