The rights afforded to employees under OSHA regulations are actually quite extensive, and many standards outline additional sets of rights implicitly or explicitly.

Have you noticed that your workplace has safety issues? Have you noticed that these issues are not being resolved?

On occasion, manufacturing companies have been known to get upset at health and safety agencies like OSHA. After all, their enforcement of safety regulations can sometimes interfere with normal business operations. However, it’s always important to remember that health and safety agencies are just looking out for the well-being of everyone involved.

Even if you know how important it is to ensure safe workplaces for employees, it can be a challenge to keep up with federal, state, and local health and safety at work legislation. The rules seem to change annually, and with every change, an employer needs to inform employees and update policies and procedures. Relying on the information provided by trusted resources like federal, state, and local agencies and your health and safety-related vendors can help.

It’s strange to think how many months have passed since the coronavirus pandemic began. And yet, the pandemic soldiers on, and so do workplaces. If anything, workplaces have risen to the challenge of the pandemic, instituting new safety protocols to protect workers and customers.

As an EHS professional, many of your safety responsibilities circle back to the same basic question: who and what does health and safety legislation protect?

It’s one thing to say your company has a good track record when it comes to workplace safety but how can you prove it? Using OSHA safety metrics is one of the standard ways that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration evaluates companies on their safety record.

We spend a great deal of time focused on occupational health and safety regulation in the U.S. But if you’re one of the many businesses caught in the flow of globalization, chances are you have more than just U.S. safety laws to comply with.

The OSHA Technical Manual is a reference for use by OSHA’s Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHOs), also known informally as OSHA inspectors. Updated regularly, it contains information about identifying, evaluating, and minimizing health and safety hazards that CSHOs may see when conducting inspections.

Warehouses see a constant ebb and flow of goods, and from a logistical standpoint, it’s a constant balancing act. But this balancing act becomes even harder when you introduce temperature concerns into the equation.