Until recently, the word corona evoked an image of a clear, glistening longneck bottle of pale lager that pairs nicely with a summer afternoon down by the seaside. Add a wedge of green citrus fruit and another Corona gets its lime and your latitude h...
I got an e-mail from my boss recently sharing a Maine client’s request for information regarding drug testing. Specifically, about drug and alcohol testing as part of their accident investigation process: “Do you know, or can you point me...
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OSHA’s Recordkeeping Standard Part 1904 requires many employers to record workplace illnesses and injuries and to report certain types of serious incidents in a timely manner. Many employers may not be aware that there are significant changes c...
When looking toward the new year, employers often have questions about OSHA injury recordkeeping. I always recommend that they start by pretending to be a newspaper reporter. A reporter cannot begin to do their job without answering five basic questi...
It’s a new year, and the yule log has dimmed, and now it’s time for a new OSHA illness and injury log. In Part 1 of our 3-part series, OSHA Recordkeeping: Who, How, What, When and Why? Oh My!, we delved into “who” and “...
February 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2024 This four-day in-person training provides instruction on key sections of OSHA’s Construction Standards, instructing attendees on how to effectively implement appropriate safety procedures in the workplace. In ad...
This two-day video conference training provides instruction on the recognition and control of safety and health hazards found in the general industry workplace. (OSHA uses the term "general industry" for all industries outside of agriculture, constru...
The time has come to submit your injury and illness summary records to OSHA, but are your records up to date and accurate? In the first two installments of our 3-part series on OSHA recordkeeping, we covered the “who" and “how” in O...