Did you know that the OSHA Illness and Injury Summary Log, 300A, is used for more than just recordkeeping at your site? By documenting your company’s illness and injuries properly, you shape OSHA’s future initiatives! Specifically, OSHA Summary 300A Forms are gathered by the OSHA Data Initiative (ODI) to help direct OSHA programs and measure its own performance. Learn more about how the OSHA Summary 300A (which is required to be posted on Feb 1!) affects your company, your industry and health and safety across the nation.
It’s time for an update on the EPA’s proposed changes to the Inventory Update Reporting Rule! As of January 24, 2011, the EPA has been silent as to what changes will be included in the final rule. Paula Kaufmann makes an education guess to forecast when the final rule will be published so that anyone required to report, under TSCA rules, can collect their 2010 inventory data. Click on the title of the blog to read more.
Dust control is an important way to keep what’s in the ground out of the air and out of your lungs. The standard method for controlling dust is to spray water on the ground. This practice works fine until your water truck freezes solid. So, what do you do when Jack Frost is nipping at your nose and the dust is flying in the air?
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ended 2010 with two announcements that impact Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ). The first of these announcements involves polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in school environments. EPA’s second end-of-2010 announcement involves testing for radon, as January is National Radon Action Month. Two easy ways to start 2011 off on the right foot — follow the EPA’s recommendation by eliminating two significant and relatively easy IEQ concerns, PCBs and radon, from your building.
I was pleased to see that companies are requesting contractors and service providers to be prequalified for safety during the bidding process. Conceptually, prequalification for safety should “raise the safety bar” and, companies with a well-developed safety plan should be rewarded for their proactive ethos with a competitive edge in the marketplace. Does on-line verification actually does improve health and safety plans or just rubber-stamp paper safety programs?