What's New - March, 2010

  • March 31 - Region 3 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Delaware City, Del., manufacturing company for workplace safety and health hazards
  • March 31 - Interpretation - Use of toeboards across scaffold access points.
  • March 31 - Interpretation - Whether OSHA standards require employees to be tied off while working over water on an aerial lift.
  • March 31 - Interpretation - Whether an employer is permitted to double wrap #9 gage steel wire in order to guy, tie, or brace a scaffold.
  • March 30 - Interpretation - Application of OSHA's de minimis policy to the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.452(o)(3) and 29 CFR 1926.552(c)(1) - 1926.552(c)(4), 1926.552(c)(8), 1926.552(c)(13), 1926.552(c)(14)(i), and 1926.552(c)(16) regarding certain chimney construction work.
  • March 30 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA fines Elmwood, Wis., dairy farm following investigation into worker's death
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Restrictions on drilling within 50 feet of a hole loaded with explosives.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Fully Planked and Decked Scaffold
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Whether an employer can use a controlled access zone during curtain wall installation.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Interpretation of OSHA Fall Protection Exemption (29 CFR § 1926.500(a)(1)) during inspection, investigation, and assessment activities.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Fall protection requirements for employees working on an elevator car frame.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Permissible methods of operating trucks in reverse on construction sites.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Protective system requirements for excavations that will not be entered by employees.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Whether compliance with an updated ANSI standard on gate strength for carabiners and snaphooks is required.
  • March 29 - Interpretation - Testing requirements for "lifting blinds" or "lifting covers" on pressure vessels
  • March 29 - Region 4 - US Labor Department's OSHA offering employers free construction safety and health training on April 1 at Gulf State Fairgrounds in Mobile, Ala.
  • March 26 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA notifies Evansville, Ind., regional airport of workplace safety and health violations to workers
  • March 26 - Region 6 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Fort Worth, Texas-based FWT Inc. for alleged workplace safety and health violations
  • March 26 - Region 7 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Werner Construction Inc. in Norfolk, Neb., for violations of OSH Act
  • March 26 - Region 6 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Gulf Chemical & Metallurgical Corp. in Freeport, Texas, for alleged workplace safety violations
  • March 26 - Region 2 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites South Amboy, NJ, stucco contractor for fall hazards
  • March 26 - OSHA Speech - American Society of Safety Engineers and American Industrial Hygiene Association Joint Meeting
  • March 26 - OSHA Speech - Illinois Public Workers Ceremony
  • March 26 - Trade Release - Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health meeting scheduled for April 14 and 16
  • March 25 - Federal Register 75:14471-14472 - Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH)
  • March 25 - Trade Release - Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health meeting scheduled for April 27 and 29
  • March 24 - Region 2 - US Labor Department's OSHA urges recovery workers and public to safeguard themselves against hazards during flood and storm cleanup
  • March 23 - OSHA Statement - Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis remembers workers killed at BP Texas City, calls for re-dedication of safety efforts at refineries, chemical plants
  • March 23 - Trade Release - OSHA requests membership nominations to the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health
  • March 23 - Region 10 - US Labor Department's OSHA forms alliance with Mechanical Contractors Association and United pipefitters association
  • March 23 - Federal Register 75:13785 - Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH); Request for Nominations
  • March 23 - Federal Register 75:13783-13784 - Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH)
  • March 23 - Federal Register 75:13783 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Announcement of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Numbers Under the Paperwork Reduction Act
  • March 22 - OSHA Statement - Statement of US Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on passage of health care reform by US House of Representatives
  • March 22 - OSHA Statement - Comentarios de la Secretaria de Trabajo de los EE. UU. Hilda L. Solis sobre el voto de la Camara de Representantes aprobando la reforma del sistema de seguro medico
  • March 19 - Interp - Enforcement Policy for Flame-Resistant Clothing in Oil and Gas Drilling, Well Servicing, and Production-Related Operations
  • March 18 - Region 4 - US Labor Department orders Tennessee Commerce Bank to reinstate whistleblower and pay more than $1 million in back wages and other relief
  • March 18 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA proposes $55,500 in penalties against American Warming and Ventilating Inc. for safety violations
  • March 18 - Region 3 - US Labor Department's OSHA announces informal public hearing on hazard communication in Pittsburgh on March 31
  • March 18 - Trade Release - OSHA requests comments on Direct Final Rule and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to protect workers from exposure to hexavalent chromium
  • March 17 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA fines Ohio Decorative Products $91,000 for safety violations
  • March 17 - Region 6 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Pecos, Texas, manufacturing facility for alleged safety and health hazards
  • March 17 - Region 3 - US Labor Department's OSHA fines Allentown, Pa., company for failing to abate workplace safety and health hazards
  • March 17 - Federal Register 75:12718 - Hazard Communication; Meetings Notice
  • March 17 - Federal Register 75:12681-12686 - Revising the Notification Requirements in the Exposure Determination Provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium Standards
  • March 16 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA schedules combustible dust stakeholder meetings in Chicago to address workplace hazards
  • March 16 - Federal Register 75:12570-12571 - Presence Sensing Device Initiation (PSDI); Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
  • March 16 - Federal Register 75:12485-12489 - Revising the Notification Requirements in the Exposure Determination; Provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium Standards
  • March 16 - National Release - US assistant secretary of labor for OSHA testifies on Protecting America's Workers Act before House subcommittee
  • March 16 - Region 6 - US Department of Labor's OSHA forms alliance with Texas State Technical College in Sweetwater, Texas
  • March 16 - Testimony - Protecting America's Workers Act (PAWA)
  • March 15 - Trade Release - OSHA eTool explains ways to protect the safety of electric power workers
  • March 15 - OSHA Quick Takes -- March 15, 2010-- Volume 9, Issue 6
  • March 12 - OSHA Speech - American Bar Association OSH Law Committee
  • March 12 - Region 9 - US Department of Labor's OSHA assesses Guam contractor Hua Sheng $139,500 for hazardous conditions at barracks, worksite
  • March 11 - Region 3 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Harbeson, Del., poultry processing plant for workplace safety and health hazards
  • March 11 - Region 2 - US Labor Department's OSHA finds Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp. railroad violated federal whistleblower law
  • March 10 - Directive - Cancellation and Revision of OSHA Instructions Related to Standard Alleged Violation Elements (SAVEs)
  • March 10 - Region 1 - US Labor Department's OSHA proposes $178,800 in fines for Massachusetts and Rhode Island contractors for Newton, Mass., cave-in hazards
  • March 9 - National Release - US Labor Department's OSHA notifies 15,000 workplaces nationwide of high injury and illness rates
  • March 9 - Region 5 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Chipco LLC in Zanesville, Ohio, following fatality at natural gas well site in Londonderry, Ohio
  • March 9 - Region 1 - US Labor Department's OSHA cites Franklin County, Maine, pellet mill for combustible dust and other hazards after explosion
  • March 9 - Region 10 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Bowman's Inc. following trenching fatality at Pocatello, Idaho, worksite
  • March 9 - Federal Register 75:10738-10739 - Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements
  • March 9 - Federal Register 75:10739-10740 - Combustible Dust
  • March 8 - Trade Release - OSHA extends deadline for membership nominations to Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health
  • March 8 - National Release - US Labor Department's OSHA proposes more than $3 million in fines to BP-Husky refinery near Toledo, Ohio
  • March 8 - Trade Release - OSHA extends deadline for submitting comments on Recordkeeping proposed rule
  • March 8 - Federal Register 75:10629-10630 - Federal Advisory Council on Occupational Safety and Health; Notice
  • March 4 - Federal Register 75:9953-9955 - Definition and Requirements for a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL); Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
  • March 3 - Region 3 - US Department of Labor's OSHA partners with Manhattan Torcon JV to protect workers constructing new medical facility
  • March 3 - Region 9 - US Department of Labor's OSHA orders e-Smart Technologies Inc. to pay whistleblower back wages and $600,000 in compensatory damages
  • March 3 - OSHA Quick Takes -- March 15, 2010-- Volume 9, Issue 5
  • March 2 - Region 1 - US Labor Department's OSHA proposes nearly $59,000 in fines against Cheshire, Conn., food distribution warehouse
  • March 2 - Federal Register 75:9439-9441 - FM Approvals: Application for Expansion of Recognition; Wyle Laboratories: Voluntary Modification of the Scope of Recognition; and Temporary Reinstatement of NFPA 72
  • March 1 - Speech - ORC Worldwide OSH Group and Corporate Health Directors meeting
  • March 1 - Region 1 - US Labor Department's OSHA fines Danvers, Mass., construction contractor $136,000 for asbestos hazards at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston

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