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New OSHA Guidelines Seek to Rein In Black Friday Crowds
In response to a death last year during a Black Friday shopping promotion in New York, the government has released guidelines to help employers keep their em... Read more
Workplace Accidents on the Decline
Tougher regulatory enforcement is curbing on-the-job fatalities and injuries, the government says. Read more
Employers Reminded to Post Workplace Injuries
Jan. 24, 2007 -- Employers have until Feb. 1 to post a summary of all job-related injuries and illnesses that occurred last year, the Occ... Read more
Employers Cited for Workplace Injuries, Illnesses
March 15, 2007 -- As many as 14,000 employers across the United States have workplace injury and illness rates above the national a... Read more
New Leadership at OSHA
Will the Sago mine tragedy affect attitudes toward workplace safety? Read more
New Website Tracks Worker Injuries
An AFL-CIO affiliate has posted data on 60,000 companies online. Read more
OSHA Gets Funding Boost
March 3, 2005 -- President Bush's proposed budget for the coming fiscal year asks for a $2.8 million increase in funding to the Occupatio... Read more
House Passes Small Business-Friendly OSHA Bills
July 14, 2005 --A package of legislation that aims to bolster small businesses' clout in challenging Occupational Safety and Health Admini... Read more
Create an Ergonomic-Friendly Workplace
This commonsense advice will help you take the pain out of your work space. Read more
Stamping Out Unfair Treatment on the Job
Q: I am a faculty representative for my education association. We have received a number of complaints about supervisors who harass instr... Read more
Companies Can Receive a Free Safety Consultation
Using a free consultation service largely funded by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, companies can find out about potential hazardsat th... Read more
Dingdong! OSHA Calling
How to handle OSHA inspections properly. Read more
Ready, Willing, and Able
Reader-to-reader advice. Read more
The Inc. Network
Reader-to-reader advice. Read more
How to Tap OSHA for Free
How to request free OSHA consultations a listing of OSHA-sponsored consultants. Read more
Regulation;
Like most federal regulatory agencies, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is feeling the pinch of budget cutbacks. But OSHA's problem may ... Read more
PRACTICAL CASH SAVING IDEAS FROM INC. READERS
Avoid the painful and costly effects of exposure to hazardous substances by asking suppliers for a list of all chemicals associated with their products. T... Read more
Why Some Osha Rules Will Be Abandoned
Are you bothered by one of those sometimes nettlesome Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations? It might be worthwhile to pull out... Read more
Regulatory enforcement crackdowns may be aimed at specific industries with a history of violations, while industries with above-average records can expect... Read more
One safety complaint doesn't justify a full-fledged investigation, the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission ruled recently in a precedent-sett... Read more
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was established by the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) of 1970, whi... Read more
Right-to-Know (RTK) Laws
Right-to-know laws are a group of rules and regulations at the state and national levels that mandate that employers share scientific information with wor... Read more
OSHA to Conduct Unannounced Inspections
April 2004 --The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will be doing unannounced inspections of about 4,000 high-hazar... Read more
Ergonomics Link Comfort to Productivity
The right office environment helps reduce injury and improve employee satisfaction Many issues can lead to physical ailments. Ergonomics&... Read more
Workstation
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9 Avoidable Workplace Health and Safety Hazards
Workplace health and safety hazards can be costly (to lives and the bottom line), but the good news is that they are largely preventable if you take the righ... Read more
OSHA Can You See?
Using government experts to help insure compliance with safety and environmental laws. Read more
The Corporate Blotter;
Los Angeles may be on the cutting edge of the trend to hold corporate executives criminally responsible for workplace deaths. But presecutors and legisla... Read more
Is it worth the cost to make my firm's offices 'ergonomically correct'?
Offices & Operations mentor Mie-Yun Lee responds to the following question from an inc.com user: I'm wondering about making my s... Read more
Ergonomics
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Workplace Safety
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An Activist Approach To Dealing With Regulators
'I spent the first 10 years of my adult life as an activist United Methodist minister -- active in seeking to bring truth, righteousness, and justice to p... Read more
He Pays Them to Quit Puffing
One company's technique for getting workers to quit smoking and resources for designing smoking-cessation classes. Read more
State regulatory agencies may get tougher as Washington eases up. For instance, now that the Reagan Administration has withdrawn proposed OSHA rules requ... Read more
Ergonomics Standard Moves Forward
After long delays the U.S. Department of Labor finally published its national ergonomic proposal, whichwill cover more than 1.6 million work sites. It is ... Read more
Network: July 1990
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read more
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