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Pharmacist and Health Care Workers Must Use Precaution When Handling Hazardous Drugs
Hospital and health care employers were reminded today that hazardous drugs such as antineoplastic drugs can pose serious job-related health risks to workers if proper precautions are not used in handling the drugs. The National Institute for...
OSHA Issues Caution on Safety Incentive Programs that Encourage Workers to Not File Claims
Section 11(c) of the OSH Act prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee because the employee reports an injury or illness. 29 CFR 1904.36. This memorandum is intended to provide guidance to both field compliance officers and...
WorkComp Question of the Day: We Have No Money For Safety Training But Our Employees Need to Be Trained
Challenge: How do we offer safety training to employees when we have a limited budget to build a fancy training program?
Guess what, you don’t need a huge budget to build a safety culture. You don’t need a budget to train employees effectively.
There...
Interline Logistics Group to Reinstate and Pay $190,000 to Terminated Whistleblower
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Interline Logistics Group LLC to immediately reinstate a truck driver in Sauk Village, who was terminated after reporting safety concerns about the...
OSHA Cites Company $288k for Safety Violations Involving Foreign Students
The agency’s inspection was conducted in response to a complaint filed by the National Guestworker Alliance on behalf of a group of foreign students who were performing summer jobs at the Palmyra facility under the U.S. Department of...
Did You Know that OSHA is Responsible for the Whistleblower Protection Program
OSHA Issues Whistleblowers Guidance:
In a continuing effort to improve the Whistleblower Protection Program, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it is implementing additional...
OSHA Cites Texas Oil Drilling Company After 2 Workers Die
Is a Job Worth Loosing Your Life? Once again OSHA Sites another company for death of workers.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Robinson Drilling of Texas Ltd. for eight serious, four...
OSHA Cites Illinois Pet Food Production Company $750k – 23 Health & Safety Violations
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited All-Feed Processing & Packaging Inc., headquartered in Alpha, for 23 safety and health violations at its pet food production and packaging facility...
OSHA’s New Battle: Employee Safety vs. Political Witch-hunt
This week as most people focused on their daily activities the new Congress decided to blame OSHA for record unemployment. According to the new Congress OSHA is a job killing organization that should be de-funded. See Video of Congressional...
OSHA Releases Respiratory Protection Video for Health Care Workers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently produced a training video for health care employers and workers that explains the proper use of respirators and the procedures to follow to assure that respirators protect workers from...
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