FDR Safety
MAY 13, 2024
Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. OSHA AND FEASIBILITY The OSH Act is the relevant law, and OSHA standards are the relevant regulations for most employers and employees in the United States. A feasibility assessment usually takes less than an hour.
FDR Safety
APRIL 15, 2020
However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. Imagine trying to have a documented LOTO procedure for each of these tasks… It’ can’t be done. As part of your documented training, remind them… GRAVITY WINS.
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FDR Safety
APRIL 15, 2020
However, the ability for any management to foresee the thousands of maintenance tasks where a skilled worker must deal with gravity is not practicable nor feasible. Imagine trying to have a documented LOTO procedure for each of these tasks… It’ can’t be done. As part of your documented training, remind them… GRAVITY WINS.
FDR Safety
JULY 25, 2018
However, I’m puzzled why companies don’t adequately deal with these issues before the problems occur. What’s often missed and not understood is the in-between, where tasks are not minor servicing but LOTO is not feasible. In situations where LOTO is not feasible, an ALTERNATIVE METHOD is needed.
FDR Safety
NOVEMBER 1, 2019
For those of you who deal with PSM, you know this is a critical first step in determining if a traditional risk-based approach will suffice from a compliance perspective. When deciding that risk mitigation is needed, the concept of feasibility comes into play to demonstrate due diligence in complying with the OSH Act.
Lets Build
APRIL 15, 2020
Managing a construction project is a complicated role dealing with complex tasks that get modified from project to project. At the start of any project, a business case must be created and evaluated to ascertain the feasibility of the project. Stakeholders then perform feasibility testing accordingly.
FDR Safety
DECEMBER 2, 2015
A new series of ANSI standards is now available to assist employers in assessing how to comply with OSHA standards, determine feasible safeguards or harmonize with ISO and U.S. Risk assessment provides the foundation to select feasible safeguarding. Those dealing with harmonization of E.U.
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