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OSHA's Final Confined Space standard for Construction

OSHA is adding a new subpart to provide protections to employees working in confined spaces in construction. This new subpart replaces OSHA's one trai...

Fall Protection: Structural Efficacy of Residential Structures for Fall Protection Systems

This article is posted with the kind permission of ASSE, publisher of Professional Safety. Residential builders often resist providing fall protection...

Mechanic Killed Pouring Gasoline on Fire

This Oregon FACE toolbox talk is about a 37-year-old field mechanic who died when he tried to stoke a warming fire with gasoline. The recommendations:...

FY15 Fatalities and Catastrophes To Date

This spreadsheet was produced by OSHA containing fatalities and catastrophes the agency recorded in Fiscal Year 2015 though January 16, 2015. The spre...

Full Disclosure Required: A Strategy to Prevent Asthma

A number of chemicals are known to cause the onset of asthma and are labeled asthmagens. These chemicals are common ingredients of many interior finis...

Not An Accident: Preventable Deaths 2015

Fall Protection Resource for New Home Construction

This website catalogs fall protection equipment for residential construction. Equipment is classified by the type of fall protection or the phase of c...

Model Silica Specifications for Masonry Grinding, Cutting and Sawing

These specifications were created by a national advisory group of researchers, contractors, labor organizations and government that came out of a long...