CSB to vote on OSHA’s 'unacceptable' implementation of recommendations
Washington – The Chemical Safety Board has scheduled a meeting to consider whether OSHA's responses to some of the board's recommendations have been "unacceptable," and to launch its Most Wanted...
View ArticleNIOSH: ‘Fracking’ exposes workers to silica
Falls Church, VA – Oil and gas workers are exposed to respirable crystalline silica during directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations, a new NIOSH study concludes.
View ArticleNew letters of interpretation clarify info in hazcom rule
Washington – OSHA recently published four letters of interpretation regarding its revised Hazard Communication Standard.
View ArticleCSB report renews call for a combustible dust standard
Charleston, WV – A number of combustible dust-related incidents, injuries and deaths over the past decade might have been prevented had OSHA promulgated a standard covering the hazard, according to a...
View ArticleDust explosion in China illustrates need for OSHA standard, CSB chief says
Washington – A deadly metal dust explosion in China offers a fresh reminder of combustible dust hazards, which the United States should address through an OSHA standard, Chemical Safety Board Chairman...
View ArticleCSB renews call for combustible dust standard
The Chemical Safety Board has reiterated its call for OSHA to promulgate a comprehensive combustible dust standard.
View ArticleOSHA releases fact sheets on combustible dust, farm emergencies
Washington – Two new fact sheets from OSHA provide information intended to protect workers from combustible dust explosion hazards and agricultural emergencies.
View ArticleCSB to vote on OSHA’s 'unacceptable' implementation of recommendations
Washington – The Chemical Safety Board has scheduled a meeting to consider whether OSHA's responses to some of the board's recommendations have been "unacceptable," and to launch its Most Wanted...
View ArticleNIOSH: ‘Fracking’ exposes workers to silica
Falls Church, VA – Oil and gas workers are exposed to respirable crystalline silica during directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations, a new NIOSH study concludes.
View ArticleNew letters of interpretation clarify info in hazcom rule
Washington – OSHA recently published four letters of interpretation regarding its revised Hazard Communication Standard.
View ArticleCSB report renews call for a combustible dust standard
Charleston, WV – A number of combustible dust-related incidents, injuries and deaths over the past decade might have been prevented had OSHA promulgated a standard covering the hazard, according to a...
View ArticleDust explosion in China illustrates need for OSHA standard, CSB chief says
Washington – A deadly metal dust explosion in China offers a fresh reminder of combustible dust hazards, which the United States should address through an OSHA standard, Chemical Safety Board Chairman...
View ArticleCSB renews call for combustible dust standard
The Chemical Safety Board has reiterated its call for OSHA to promulgate a comprehensive combustible dust standard.
View ArticleOSHA releases fact sheets on combustible dust, farm emergencies
Washington – Two new fact sheets from OSHA provide information intended to protect workers from combustible dust explosion hazards and agricultural emergencies.
View ArticleCombustible dust still ‘critical issue in industrial safety’: CSB
Washington — The Chemical Safety Board is reiterating its call for OSHA to enact a comprehensive general industry standard for combustible dust – a potential hazard the board calls a “critical issue in...
View ArticleCSB to stakeholders: Tell us why efforts to control combustible dust aren’t...
Washington — The Chemical Safety Board is seeking to better understand why efforts to manage and control combustible dust hazards “have often failed” to prevent explosions.
View ArticleCSB extends comment period on combustible dust initiative
Washington — The Chemical Safety Board has extended to Dec. 31 its deadline for comment on a recent initiative that seeks to better understand why efforts to manage and control combustible dust hazards...
View ArticleNew method of detecting combustible dust uses real-time imaging
West Lafayette, IN — Using newly developed algorithms, researchers from Purdue University have designed an image- and video-based application to detect combustible dust concentrations suspended in the...
View Article‘Multiple perspectives’: CSB releases first ‘learning review’ on combustible...
Washington — Managing and controlling combustible dust should be considered a unique hazard – not simply “tidying up the place,” the Chemical Safety Board says in a recently released learning review...
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