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Safety School: Emergency Response Plans for Permit Required Confined Spaces

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Here are four basic questions to check that your emergency response plan for permit required confined spaces is complete. These four questions are just some of the emergency response variables that employers need to address before sending a worker down into a permit space, and the included documents help you ask them all.

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OK Commission Says Workers' Comp Alternative Unconstitutional

Construction Equipment

On Friday, the Oklahoma Workers' Compensation Commission called the alternative workplace-benefit plans that some employers adopted under the law "a water mirage on the highway that disappears upon closer inspection," and ruled unanimously the law that allows employers to opt-out of state-regulated workers' comp plans.

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OSHA Safety

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OSHA Inspections. Workplace inspections and investigations are conducted by OSHA compliance safety and health officers trained in safety and industrial hygiene. Inspections are conducted without advance notice. There are circumstances when OSHA may give less than 24 hours’ notice to the employer. Walkthrough.

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Spotting Safety: Earthmoving Equipment Training

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OSHA forklift regulations explain the training required in 1910.178(l). It’s up to the employer to ensure their operators have successfully completed a training program under an instructor who has the knowledge, training, and experience to teach and evaluate the operator. A correctly trained operator should know this.

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Where Maryland’s State Plan is Stricter Than OSHA

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Federal OSHA regulations are simply the minimum standard. MOSH has beefed up their regulations on everything from: Excavation designs. MOSH wants employers to keep those designs at the worksite even longer to include while they are being used in the larger construction project. About half of the U.S. Smoking at Work.

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Common Sense Workplace Safety

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Make sure you know the regulations that apply to your work environment and how to comply with them. Are only authorized, competent employees permitted to perform repairs? You know and understand OSHA regulations pertinent to the job you are doing. Workplace Safety & Health Plans. Hazard Evaluations. The Quality of Training.

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Facilities Maintenance Checklist and Procedures

Job Order Contracting

Inspect electrical power panel. Inspect control panel for loose connections. Inspect Bollard/Barricade coatings, decals and paint. Visually inspect for corrosion. Inspect general arrangement of door and mechanism, mountings, standards, wind locks, anchor bolts, counterbalances, weather stripping, door sweeps etc.