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OSHA will have some assistance from Madison as the city is going to act as a watchdog for the organization in a new pilot program. OSHA has chosen 11 cities across the country for the project designed to reduce injuries and deaths at construction working sites. Bill Foshee, director of the Madison's building and permit department said, "We're going to be their eyes in the field.” The initiative asks OSHA to work with and also to train the inspectors for local building to reduce the four leading causes of workplace deaths so that they can notify OSHA if they observe any unsafe conditions. Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis wrote to Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler in a letter, "I believe that workplace enforcement is not only our responsibility, but our moral obligation. We need your help to send our inspectors where they can make the biggest difference." Three building inspectors in the city will alert OSHA on unsafe and hazardous job sites so that the sites could be inspecte...

Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Misdea Enterprises LLC, a Weymouth, Mass., masonry contractor because the contractor was involved in willful violation for the safety and the health of the workers. The contractor did not pay attention to the workers safety and an employee fell down from 30 feet while climbing a scaffold in Brookline, Mass. For this willful violation, OSHA has proposed $61,600. OSHA had done inspection on that site and found that there was no ladder in the scaffold. The safety and health of the workers was a big question in that site. There was no fall protection while working on the scaffold, scaffold was not fully planked, the workers were threatened by electrocution, and many more. The company was not complying with OSHA regulations. This is the duty of the employers to provide fall protection for each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level. In this case, the height was 30 feet and still the employer did not provide an...

Elyria Foundry Co. LLC, Elyria, Ohio was charged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with 29 alleged serious and three repeat safety and health violations after a worker sustained an injury which required a lower arm amputation. Proposed penalties total $201,500. Based on a November 2009 safety inspection, OSHA charged the company with 25 serious and three repeat safety violations with $183,000 in proposed penalties. Some of the violations addressed the company's failure to give proper personal protective equipment to employees; failure to provide sufficient eye protection while working with a sulfur dioxide tank; a lack of emergency escape respirators for employees; blocked exit doors; a lack of proper guarding on power band saws;failure in providing safety latches on crane hooks; and failure to provide fall protection. The employer also has been charged with four serious health violations and are proposed with $18,500 penalty. The citations address the failure ...

It has been disclosed that more than 680 workers have died at workplace in Kansans. View some accidents: 1. About one in 10 died when working at a grain elevator. Three painters who fell down from the top of an elevator in Jetmore in 1982. The height was 125 feet where the painters fell down and died on the spot. 2. Forty-eight workers died in elevators while doing jobs classified by OSHA as "grain and field bean" work. OSHA counts this work as the most dangerous job in Kansas. 3. The DeBruce explosion killed seven and injured 10 which was exploded in 1998. The accident made national headlines and resulted in a substantial OSHA fine. Besides these, the other grain and field bean workers died in single-fatality accidents since 1980. And half of them were killed when they were engulfed by grain. Regarding this, Ron Hayes says, "It's just one of the most dangerous places in the world to work.” Ron Hayes had lost his 19 year old son while the son was buried by 60 to...

OSHA, the US department of Labor's Occupational Safety And Health Administration, has required workplace injury and illness data from the employers so that they can identify the employers whose employees face higher injury and illness than the national average. OSHA has sent letters about 15,000 workplaces that have faced highest number of injuries and illness and they are restricted from work, work related activities. This high rate of injury at workplace is known as DART rate. The receiver of this letter requires to take immediate steps to give proper protection to the workers. The letter has also offered assistance to reduce the rate of injuries and to give safety measures to the workers. The state will provide OSHA's free safety and health consultation services for the small business. OSHA has done all these examining the survey of workplaces and the data of the employers of 2009 The workplaces that have received the letters have DART rates two times more than the national...

OMAHA, Neb. – OSHA‘s (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) Omaha Area Office has started a local emphasis program in Nebraska aimed to reduce employee exposure to health hazards in general industry establishments that commonly have the respiratory and noise hazards. This program is designed to help general industry employers who proactively addresses to air and noise quality issues in the workplace. The use of the term “general industry” by OSHA refers to all industries not included in construction, agriculture or maritime. “The hazards associated with noise and air contamination are well recognized,” said the OSHA’s regional administrator in Kansas City, Mo., Charles E. Adkins. "OSHA's Omaha Area Office will devote resources to outreach and enforcement activities for many general industry employers in Nebraska to help ensure worksites are safe and healthful." According to the program, OSHA will make a list of potential companies for inspection based on the type...

The company owner is the only person responsible to maintain and protect health and safety of their workers. From past several years, many health and safety laws have been put under implementation for the reason to ensure worker’s safety and with the aim to protect them from hazards prevailing at their work place. The OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act), 1970 passes a law that enforces employers to provide a safe and healthy environment to workers, which is free from any kind of hazards and should comply all OSHA standards. The US Government created OSHA to impose these safety standards and make people aware about workplace safety, including training and assistance to all the workers and employees working in an industry. Employers working in any of the sectors whether private or public, both of these are covered by an OSHA office under the centralized regulation itself or sometimes even by OSHA programs functioned by their own state. Those states operated by state OSHA program a...