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OSHA Safety

Safety Services Company

OSHA Safety & Compliance. Welcome to Safe Friday, this week we’re going to cover the ins and outs of OSHA safety and compliance. OSHA Inspections. Workplace inspections and investigations are conducted by OSHA compliance safety and health officers trained in safety and industrial hygiene. Walkthrough.

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Prepare for an OSHA Inspection

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Planning for an OSHA inspection is good business. Take these 5 steps to prepare for a surprise worksite inspection and you’ll also have a solid foundation of safe work practices. Make sure you and every other employer understands their responsibilities when it comes to the hazards at each worksite. .

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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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Companies’ voluntary audits now being used against them

FDR Safety

What appears to be a new OSHA practice of using a company’s voluntary safety and health audit as a guide to identifying possible hazards to focus on in an inspection should prompt employers to review their procedures for these audits. BP Products North America, Inc. Enforcement OSHA'

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Appeals court lowers bar for OSHA willful violations

FDR Safety

The employee was stuck for more than five hours, and OSHA issued a willful violation of its permit-required confined space standard. Previously, to issue willful violations, OSHA had to prove that the employer showed “intentional disregard or plain indifference” to a violation, OSHA now need only prove that the employer failed to act.

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Spotting Safety: Earthmoving Equipment Training

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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. The employer shall permit only those employees qualified by training or experience to operate equipment or machinery.

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Safety: What to do when employees know better but don’t do better

FDR Safety

This article will take a comprehensive look at addressing this problem along with the culture of safety, and examines the philosophy, accountability and structure needed to develop a successful safety program. First thoughts about safety. Many companies establish safety as a “No. Many companies establish safety as a “No.

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