The federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for ensuring workplace safety. OSHA has established guidelines in workplace lighting that you'll need to follow in ...

OSHA issues new letters of interpretation to clarify how employers must apply key safety standards, from confined spaces to recordkeeping and audiometric testing. OSHA has issued seven new letters of ...

Learn how the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act safeguards workplace safety, OSHA's role, and which businesses must ...

ONE of the most basic tasks of a safety professional is complying with OSHA requirements in regard to fire safety. OSHA requires a company to comply in a number of different fire safety areas. While ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is working on a new heat standard to target indoor workers without climate-controlled environments, including those who toil in manufacturing, ...

When health care facilities violate the regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, the consequences the owners face can range from citations to jail time. While some OSHA laws ...

A new Emergency Response Standard (ERS) has been proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to impose additional requirements on organizations with employees who respond to ...

Like most rural volunteer fire departments, the Natoma, Kansas, department uses old fire protection gear. Proposed OSHA rules could require Fire Chief Keith Koelling to replace it all with new gear ...

Another state has decided to regulate workplace violence in nursing homes and other healthcare facilities amid a delay in the development of federal rules.

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