Newmarket Stucco Supplier Fined $55,000 for Five OHS Violations
Newmarket Stucco Supplier Fined $55,000 for five OHS violations discovered [...]

Newmarket Stucco Supplier Fined $55,000 for five OHS violations discovered [...]

If you have multiple facilities, you run the risk of [...]

A metal treatment company was investigated by OSHA after an [...]
OSHA initiated an investigation at a ConocoPhillips Co. refinery in [...]

OSHA issued the citations following an investigation that began Jan. [...]

OSHA issued three repeat citations for alleged hazards associated with [...]

An investigation of Hess Corporation’s Port Reading, NJ, oil refinery [...]

The Loss 5,190. That’s how many workers lost their lives [...]
Two oil refineries in Mississippi and Alabama have been cited [...]

An OSHA inspection found that the company allegedly failed to [...]

Fifty-eight serious and five repeat violations were cited for workplace [...]
The US Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) recently issued [...]

An OSHA inspection found that a worker was exposed to [...]

An OSHA inspection found alleged hazards associated with cranes, scaffolds, [...]

OSHA issued the citations following an inspection that began in [...]

The company was cited for eight repeat and 13 serious [...]
OSHA issued four repeat citations carrying $45,000 in proposed penalties [...]

If you haven’t already done so, here’s a reminder! Employers [...]

Winter weather means snow and ice, which can cause slips-and-falls.
“Watch your step please” read this sign found outside an Illinois business. Given the condition of the steps leading up to it, that's pretty sound advice!
Trenches and excavations pose various safety hazards to the workers who must work in and around them.
Picture This nearly always focuses on unsafe work practices, but this week we have a photograph showing workers doing the right thing. In this case, a worker is shown using a bucket and rope to hoist tools to an elevated work area. This arrangement allows workers to maintain three points of contact when ascending or descending ladders. (eLCOSH)
This skinny plank, which barely spans its supports at both ends, provides workers with a potentially exciting, yet unsafe, means of getting to and from their worksite. It could easily snap or shift, or a worker could simply lose his balance and fall from it.
Practice makes perfect, or so it is said. But workers who perfect unsafe practices and think nothing bad will ever happen to them are often sadly proven wrong.
This makeshift scaffold, made from ladders lashed together, screams trouble even before anyone sets foot on it.