OSHA & Industry News

• March 24
  2010

  MSDs in Manufacturing

  According to the March NIOSH publication, the incidence rate for Musculoskeletal Disorders within Manufacturing is 41 incidents per 10,000 workers. Amongst the top sectors experiencing…
• March 19
  2010

  Caterpillar Concerned with Current Health Care Plan

  Caterpillar Inc. said the new healthcare plan currently in the US House of Representatives would increase the company’s health care costs by at least 20%…
• March 17
  2010

  OSHA Requesting More Enforcement Power

  WASHINGTON — Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration Dr. David Michaels testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Education and…
• March 10
  2010

  OSHA Notifies 15,000 Workplaces Nationwide of High Injury and Illness Rates

  WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration surveys employers to collect workplace injury and illness data it uses to identify…
• March 8
  2010

  OSHA Form 300 Recordkeeping MSD Proposal Public Hearing

  As we have been following in our blogs, OSHA is advising an additional column be added to the OSHA 300 log to track the quantity…
• February 25
  2010

  Michigan Ergonomics Debate to Resume

  New ergonomic standards for the state of Michigan have resumed discussion, with public hearings to be scheduled within the next 90 days. The standards proposed…
• February 17
  2010

  Update: MSDs to OSHA 300 Log

  In the blog posted on February 8 entitled “Proposed Addition: MSDs to OSHA 300 Log ,” the author discussed the inclusion of an additional column…
• February 4
  2010

  Proposed Addition: MSDs to OSHA 300 Log

  According to the Federal Register, OSHA is proposing to revise its Recording and Reporting regulation to restore a column in the OSHA 300 Log for…
• February 2
  2010

  NSC Update: Injury Facts 2010

  Available for purchase on the National Safety Council (NSC) Website is the 2010 Edition of Injury Facts. This resource includes safety statistics from the year…
• January 28
  2010

  Search OSHA: Workplace Injury and Illness Information

  OSHA is allowing the public to search their online database for work-related injury and illness data collected for more than 80,000 employers from the years…