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  • Protecting the Safety and Health of Temporary Workers
  • Request for Interpretation of OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard for Combustible Dust
  • Clarification on whether the installation of a burial vault is a construction activity.
  • Whether workers at a workplace without a collective bargaining agreement may authorize a person who is affiliated with a union or a community organization to act as their representative under the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
  • Guidance on Handling Cases Developed Pursuant to the FRC Enforcement Policy Memorandum.

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  • OSHA Proposes Extending Crane Operator Certification Compliance Deadline to 2017 - OSHA proposes extending the deadline to come into compliance with new crane operator certification to November 2017. Employers may have an additional 3 years to come into compliance with OSHA’s new crane operator certification requirements. The agency is proposing changing the compliance deadline to Nov. 10, 2017. When OSHA issued its final standard on requirements for cranes and derricks in ...
  • OSHA Extends Deadline for Crane Operator Certification Requirements - OSHA also says it will reconsider addressing industry concerns about certification and qualification in a separate rulemaking.
  • OSHA Pros Reports OSHA 10 Hour Training Requirements Get an Overhaul - On-site, Online OSHA Training Programs Affected - OSHA 10 Hour training is an increasingly common job site requirement. OSHA has recently reviewed its on site and online outreach training programs, covering both 10 and 30 hour courses. (PRWeb May 20, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/5/prweb10746256.htm
  • Following Investigation of Worker Fall and Death, OSHA Cites Phoenix Industrial Cleaning - OSHA has cited a Berkeley, Ill.- based company that provides industrial cleaning of cooking exhaust ventilation, tanks, silos and similar equipment at industrial and commercial work sites after a worker died while cleaning a storage tank. OSHA has cited Phoenix Industrial Cleaning for 28 alleged serious safety violations following the death of Bernardo Martinez, 37, who fell from a ladder inside ...
  • OSHA slaps Wolf Creek power plant contractor for firing a whistleblower - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Enercon Services Inc. to reinstate the employee who had reported unsafe conditions. The company plans to appeal.
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  • Health and safety inspectors needed in Labrador, says union rep - The president of the Steelworkers' Union at IOC is calling for occupational health and safety inspectors to be stationed in Labrador.
  • Safety inspectors needed in Labrador, union president says - A union leader in Labrador City is calling on the provincial government to fill the vacant occupational health and safety inspector positions in the region.
  • Adopting good occupational safety and health practices - JOHOR BARU: Malaysians need to look to Scandinavian countries to learn about improving occupational safety and health, said National Institute Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
  • Top Stories - Washington—The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health June 11, 2013, in Washington, D.C.
  • RWS Manufacturing issued $233,870 in workplace health, safety fines - KINGSBURY -- RWS Manufacturing is facing $233,870 in fines for 28 health and safety violations, which the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration called “willful, repeat and serious violations of workplace safety and health standards.”
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