January 17, 2019 Top 10 Safety Violations of 2018 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released its list of 2018’s top workplace safety violations – and the culprits are responsible for tens of thousands of preventable illnesses, injuries, and deaths every year. OSHA’s Top 10 – and Why It’s Important OSHA releases its list of top 10 workplace safety violations every year … Read More »
January 16, 2019 Cold Weather Dangers for Workers According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), along with the colder temperatures the winter also brings with it some weather-specific hazards that impact workers. During the colder months, certain tasks – like working around damaged or downed electrical power lines, driving, and removing snow from rooftops – can be especially dangerous, which is … Read More »
January 14, 2019 Philadelphia Construction Violations Recently, members of Philadelphia Building Trades (PBT) held a news conference in front of an apartment complex in Old City to emphasize the construction violations taking place. According to PBT, the mold-ridden project is a good example of the types of sites it will be exposing in 2019. The PBT says that in the new … Read More »
January 2, 2019 Training Failures can Lead to Workplace Fatalities Despite paying the maximum fine for safety violations that resulted in the death of a 23-year-old employee, a Springfield, New Hampshire-based biomass plant is still up and running. Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) oversees and regulates workplace safety and health, the organization still estimates that 5,000 hardworking men and women die from … Read More »
December 26, 2018 Youth Worker Safety The National Institute for Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently joined with the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) in order to launch a large-scale effort supporting increased youth worker safety. Young workers are at more risk for workplace illnesses, injuries, and death than workers of any other age group. While young workers usually face greater … Read More »
October 2, 2018 High Hazard Workplaces The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently began employing “site-specific targeting” (SST) in certain workplaces across the country. SST works by directing OSHA’s resources to highly hazardous workplaces, where employees are more likely to experience illness, injury and/or death. To determine which workplaces are the most hazardous, OSHA compiled occupational illness and injury data … Read More »
September 18, 2018 Struck-By Accidents Construction workers face a high risk of serious and sometimes fatal workplace accidents. Some of the most devastating injuries result from workers struck by objects. Struck-by accidents are included in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) “Focus Four” list of deadly construction accidents. OSHA’s Focus Four, in addition to struck-by accidents, includes electrocution, falls, … Read More »
September 1, 2018 Warehouse Worker Killed The recent death of a 50-year-old New York City marble warehouse worker highlights the all too common and deadly nature of crushing injuries in the workplace. Also referred to as caught in or between injuries, crushing injuries account for nearly 10% of the total worker fatalities that occur in the private construction industry annually. What … Read More »
August 10, 2018 OSHA Safe and Sound Week The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will be holding a nationwide event called Safe and Sound Week. The event will take place the week of August 13 through August 19, 2018. The purpose of Safe and Sound Week is to raise awareness and understanding of workplace safety and health programs. … Read More »
