Do Not Overlook This One Last Deadline for GHS / Haz-Com

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When OSHA updated their Hazard Communication (aka Haz-Com) standard back in 2012, many employers jumped into action so they could meet the mandatory deadline for training their employees about the new GHS criteria for labeling containers and Safety Data Sheets (SDS). And most employers have been assembling the new SDS’s that are issued by product manufacturers and distributors.  And hopefully everyone has updated their in-house container labeling systems to reflect the requirements in the updated Haz-Com standard. But there is one more deadline that employers have hanging over their heads, and it’s coming up VERY soon.
  
OSHA has given employers a deadline of June 1, 2016 to . . .

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Do Employees REALLY Have "Occupational Exposure"?

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It happens more times than I care to admit.  I’m teaching an OSHA 30 hour class or conducting a mock-OSHA inspection and we are covering the topic of OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) standard. Someone participating in the audit or attending the class says “Everybody at our facility is covered by the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens standard”. Or, conversely, someone will say “Not a single person at our facility is covered by this standard”.  More times than not, neither statement is true.

 

Inclusion in an OSHA-compliant BBP program is based on one thing; an employee has “occupation exposure” to blood or some other potentially infectious material. The key is to understand the . . .

 

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Two Recent OSHA Changes; Do They Require Action On Your Part?

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When OSHA makes a change, that usually means the employer must do something in response, be that write a new program, train workers, or post notifications. But one recent OSHA changes does not require the employer to take action even though you may think it does, and another requires you to take action even though you were previously told you don’t have to do anything! Confused? Read on . . .
 
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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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