29 CFR Articles
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Top 10 Most Frequently Cited OSHA Standards
For Fiscal Year 2021 (Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021) The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently cited standards following inspections of worksites by federal OSHA for all industries. OSHA publishes the list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards so they can take steps to find and fix recognized hazards addressed in these and other standards before OSHA shows up. Far ...
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Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER)
OSHA issued the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) standards, 29 CFR 1910.120 and 29 CFR 1926.65 (54 Federal Register 9294-9336, March 6, 1989), to protect workers and enable them to handle hazardous substances safely and effectively. The HAZWOPER standard for the construction industry (29 CFR 1926.65) is identical to 29 CFR 1910.120. For brevity, the HAZWOPER standard ...
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Noise Maps
In the U.S., OSHA has set regulations on worker noise exposure. The specific regulations are 29 CFR 1910.95 for industry and 29 CFR 1926.52 for construction. The usual measurement method is to use a portable noise dosimeter attached to a worker that measures noise exposure as the person moves about the work area. However, this does nothing to identify the source and location of the noise. It also ...
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Hexavalent Chromium Increases Workers’ Risk of Cancer
Where is Hexavalent Chromium Found? Hexavalent Chromium (also known as Chrome 6, Chrome VI, or hex chrome) is a component of a variety of metal products. It is most often found in stainless steel where it greatly reduces corrosion. Hex chrome is also found in some steel alloys because of its ability to increase flexibility and reduce corrosion. Electroplating of chrome also can form Hexavalent ...
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The Construction Supervisor`s OSHA Compliance Manual for Wisconsin-Based Businesses
The construction industry is fraught with hazards, making the role of a construction supervisor critical in ensuring the safety and health of employees. In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) enforces regulations to protect workers from occupational injuries and illnesses. This manual serves as a comprehensive guide for Wisconsin-based construction ...
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Best practices in Global MSDS authoring and distribution
Organizations of all sizes face increasing challenges from globalization and changinginternational regulatolY initiatives.These challenges affect an organization'sability to produce and maintain materialsafety data sheets (MSDSs). MSDSs arerequired during sale, use, storage, andshipment of hazardous chemicals. Global MSDS RequirementsCountries have different requirementsand guidelines for the ...
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PHASUITE: AN AUTOMATED HAZOP ANALYSIS TOOL FOR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
INTRODUCTION Safety is an important issue in process design and operation in chemical industry. It is even more critical for modern chemical manufacturing processes, which are either operated under extreme conditions to achieve maximum economic profit, or are highly flexible, such as the specialty chemical or pharmaceutical processes. The importance of safety analysis in process ...
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Beyond the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
Are you considering the full range of applicable OSHA Standards for your healthcare facility? Healthcare facilities are a highly regulated industry and many hospitals and ambulatory care settings work hard to reach and maintain appropriate accreditation goals. Much focus is placed on patient safety and the myriad of other quality measures healthcare facilities are required to meet. Federal ...
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Developing equipment specific lockout/tagout procedures – Case Study
Challenge: Antea®Group was contracted by one of the world’s largest chemical manufacturing organizations to provide equipment-specific lockout / tagout procedures at their largest Research and Develop facility in North America. The overall objective of the project was to evaluate the worker risks during maintenance and repair operations associated with laboratory equipment at the ...
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Strategies to implement GHS - Bringing order out of potential chaos
More than two years after the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) to revise the existing Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) was introduced, OSHA finalized the new rule and significantly amended the 29 CFR, effective May 26, 2012. The revised OSHA HCS (hereafter referred to as HazCom 2012) is based on the 3rd Revised ...
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Major Changes to the Risk Management Program Regulations
On July 31, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) published potential revisions to the Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations, which are codified at 40 CFR Part 68. U.S. EPA issued a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit and obtain information on specific regulatory elements regarding RMP and its closely-related standard regulated under the Occupational Safety and ...
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Do I Need Active Fall Protection?
For many manufacturing and construction companies, figuring out when and where to use fall protection is critical both for employee safety and to safeguard against potential fines from regulatory bodies. There are two primary types of fall protection for on-the-job safety — active fall protection and passive fall protection. Let’s discuss when you should use active fall protection, ...
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Understanding occupational exposure limits for benzene
EU Directive 2017/164/EU5 has introduced indicative occupational exposure limit values (IOELV). These are health-based, non-binding values, derived from the most recent scientic data available and availability of measurement techniques. For any chemical agent for which an IOELV has been set at EU level, member States are required to establish a national occupational exposure limit (OEL) value. ...
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Beryllium Exposure to Workers – OSHA Proposes New Beryllium Standard
In August 2015, OSHA proposed a new rule to further control workers’ exposures to beryllium. The Beryllium Standard (29 CFR 1910.1024) went into effect on March 10, 2017. The exposure assessment provision went into effect on March 12, 2018. The change rooms and showers provisions go into effect on March 11, 2019 and the engineering controls requirement go into effect on March 10, 2020. Most ...
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Stainless Steel Welders Exposed To Hexavalent Chromium – A Cancer Causing Substance
Hexavalent Chromium Cancer-Causing Substance Welding on stainless steel can expose welders to hexavalent chromium, also called Chrome 6, or Chrome (VI), which is a suspect cancer-causing substance now specifically regulated by OSHA (General Industry 29 CFR 1910.1026 and Construction 29 CFR 1926.1126). (Go to OSHA.gov/law-regs—the specific regulations are found under “General ...
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New OSHA program in 2010 targets hexavalent chromium (Hex Chrome)
OSHA has launched a new National Emphasis Program (NEP) in 2010, designed to target workplaces with exposures to hexavalent chromium and certain other metals such as antimony, arsenic, cadmium, lead and iron oxide. Targeted industries include electroplating, aircraft manufacturing, welding, shipbuilding, iron and steel mills, ferrous foundries, chrome color manufacturing and other pigment ...
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Is Hexavalent Chromium (Hex Chrome; Chrome VI) Found in Welding Fumes A Carcinogen?
Neither the chromium found in metal plating (like chrome trim on a can) nor the chrome found in medicines like chromium picolinate is in the hexavalent form and is not carcinogenic. In fact it has a positive value in our system by assisting in regulating blood sugar levels. The chrome found in the fumes formed by welding stainless steel and released into a welder’s breathing zone is in the ...
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Portable Roof Edge Fall Protection - Case Study
An Innovative Approach to Portable Safety Railing Systems KeeGuard® Contractor system is a free standing solution to roof edge fall protection that requires no hardware connections to the rooftop or working surface. KeeGuard® Contractor can be configured to meet all OSHA Standards for permanent railings, including OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1926.502, 1910.23 & NOMMA Metal Rail manual ...
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US GHS
With the Selerant suite you can manage the different implementations of the GHS. In this newsletter we see, specifically, the US GHS. The US GHS in EuSHEET has been implemented both for the new calculation criteria and for the preparation of the SDS. Therefore there is a new Country Authority “Hazcom 2012” which is related to the specific SDS model for the United States of America. ...
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Testing/Sampling and Analysis for Beryllium
OSHA has issued the a new Permissible Exposure Level (PEL) for Beryllium. The new PEL will reduce the 8-hour time weighted average exposure from 2 micrograms per cubic meter of air (2 ug/m3) to 0.2 ug/m3—a ten-fold reduction! and an action level of 0.1 ug/m3. A 15 minute STEL is proposed at 2 ug/m3. Further, OSHA intends to develop a complete standard for Beryllium identified as 29 CFR ...
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