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Firing Ranges and Elevated Blood Lead Levels

This is a warning from the DOE Office of Worker Safety and Health Policy that NIOSH considers indoor firing ranges a recognized source of exposure to...

Preventing Falls From Heights Through the Design of Embedded Safety Features

This NIOSH Prevention Through Design (PtD) guidance addresses preventing falls through designing embedded safety features into projects. This guidance...

Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Backing Construction Vehicles and Equipment

This Workplace Solution from NIOSH concentrates on identifying and controlling risks to workers by moving construction vehicles and equipment during h...

Tree Care Work: Falls and Falling Object Hazards

This short, but excellent guide from OSHA describes two preventable fatalities, one a fall from a tree and the other a struck-by falling branch incide...

OSHA Fatal Facts: Fall From a Telecommunications Tower

This OSHA FatalFact relates an incident when a worker was climbing down a 400-foot telecommunications tower and lost his footing. The ladder safety sy...

OSHA Can Better Respond to State-Run Programs Facing Challenges

OSHA carries out enforcement directly in 34 states and territories, while the remaining 22 have chosen to administer their own enforcement programs....

OSHA/NIOSH Alert: Methylene Chloride Hazards for Bathtub Refinishers

OSHA and NIOSH jointly produced this 2013 Hazard Alert based on at least 14 worker deaths since 2000 related to bathtub refinishing with stripping age...

Investigation of the June 10, 2009 Mast Climbing Platform Collapse in Austin, Texas

On June 10, 2009, three construction employees were killed when a mast climbing platform collapsed at a condominium project under construction in Aus...

Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium

This criteria document is derived from the NIOSH evaluation of critical health effects studies of occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]...

OSHA's Compliance Directive for Highway Construction Work Zones

This OSHA Instruction (CPL 02-01-054) provides guidance to OSHA compliance officers for the safe inspection of work sites where employees engaged in c...