Four Little Words Too Many Employers Overlook

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“Objective information or data”.  At first glance, these four little words plucked from a passage in the middle of OSHA’s respiratory protection standard are easy to overlook or misinterpret. But any employer who fails to carefully read and understand what is required to comply with 1910.134(d)(3)(iii)(B)(2) will not only be setting themselves up for an OSHA citation with a hefty penalty, they might also be putting the health and safety of their workers at risk!
 
This section of the Federal OSHA respiratory protection standard applies when there is . . .

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Tips To Better Engage Students During OSHA Training

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After conducting so many OSHA training sessions over 30 years, one tends to figure out what keeps the students’ attention, as well as what puts them to sleep.  So I thought I would share two simple training tactics that I have found consistently keeps students strongly engaged during classroom training sessions.

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Respiratory Protection Program - Annual Reviews

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Commonly Asked Questions About Portable Fire Extinguishers

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November 1, 2014 - It’s been a little over a year since I posted a blog explaining Federal OSHA’s requirements to provide education and training on portable fire extinguishers to workers when there are extinguishers available for their use. Since that time, some readers have emailed me with other questions about extinguishers; the same questions that come up quite often when I conduct mock-OSHA inspections.  While I could probably ramble on trying to answer fifteen or twenty recurring questions today, I decided to post answers to five commonly-asked questions about portable fire extinguishers in my blog.

• How high above the floor does OSHA require portable fire extinguishers to be mounted?   Federal OSHA standard 1910.157(c)(1) simply states that the employer “shall mount” portable fire extinguishers so they are accessible to employees; there is no height requirement listed. However, in OSHA’s . . . 

 

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OSHA Regulations on Use of Cell Phones at Work

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Are You TRULY Done With Aerial Lift Operator Training?

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Common Questions About Personal Protective Equipment

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Last month’s post focused on appropriate (and inappropriate) personal protective equipment (PPE) for head protection. That brought up a couple of commonly-asked questions about other types of PPE that I thought I would go ahead and address.

Question # 1 – Are safety glasses required to be worn beneath face shields?

OSHA requirements for eye protection can be found in either 1910.133 for general industry workplaces, 1926.102  for construction sites, or 1915.153 for shipyard employment.  It seems we sometimes forget that each of these sections of the OSHA regulations cover eye AND face protection, or even worse, we forget to differentiate between the two types of safety gear.
 
Standard safety glasses are designed to protect against injuries associated with regular eye hazards such as flying or falling objects and particles, as well as some chemical and/or radiation hazards. However, in some work operations . . .

 

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