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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a historic new standard, addressing the use of cranes and derricks in construction and replacing a decades old standard. The significant number of fatalities ass ( more... )

Safex offers OSHA 40-hr & 8-hr refresher HAZWOPER training. ( more... )

Temporary employees fill many valuable needs in both small and large organizations. Temporary employees may not always enjoy all the benefits available to other employees, such as vacations, medical insurance, etc. but do have other benefits such as flexi ( more... )

Effective June 15, 2010 – all employers must notify their workers of all hexavalent chromium exposures. This is a change from the original standard that only required employers to notify employees if exposures exceeded the permissible exposure limit (PEL ( more... )

Indoor Air Quality A committee of the World Health Organization estimates that as many as 30 percent of new or remodeled buildings may have unusually high rates of sick building complaints. Sick building complaints refer to situations without a clea ( more... )

Just Released – Most Cited Standards for FY 12 ( more... )

New 2011 Safety Compliance Training and Workshops information and dates ( more... )

The OSHA Outreach Training Program is requiring authorized outreach trainers to limit their training to a maximum of 7.5 hours per day. Therefore all 10-hour courses must be conducted over a minimum of 2 days and 30-hour courses a minimum of 4 days. Thi ( more... )

The risk of injury to office workers is much lower than to industrial workers. Because of this, office risks often go unrecognized, yet they could lead to serious personal injury or an office disaster. The attitude that office accidents do not amount to m ( more... )

With the recent events in the Gulf of Mexico involving the oil spill, OSHA has begun distributing safety guides and fact sheets to supplement the training requirements currently required of emergency responders. ( more... )

Reminder – The OSHA 300A Summary must be posted by Feb. 1, 2010. Here is a list of Recordkeeping Action Items for January, 2010: ( more... )

The 2011 OSHA 300A must be posted February 1 through April 30, 2012. ( more... )

Dianne Grote Adams discusses "Selling Safety to Mangement" in this OSHA Compliance Advisor ( more... )

November 2012 -the OSHA Crane Rule from 2010 will also apply to demo and underground construction. ( more... )

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OSHA Issues Modified Hazard Communication Standard to Include GHS ( more... )

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is initiating a national emphasis program (NEP) on recordkeeping to assess the accuracy of injury and illness data recorded by employers. ( more... )

OSHA believes that the adoption of injury and illness prevention programs (I2P2) will help millions of US businesses improve compliance, decrease injuries and illnesses and enhance business operations. ( more... )

OSHA Publishes Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for New Respirator Fit-Testing Protocol ( more... )

summary of recent OSHA Updates, January 2011 ( more... )

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Dr. Michaels lends thoughts on OSHA for 2010 ( more... )

The Ohio State University and the Columbus OSHA Office, in conjunction with the Central Ohio ASSE are proud to present OSU-OSHA Safety Day 2009 ( more... )

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2013 Safety Training courses and dates. ( more... )

Safex instructors are teaming up with the Builder’s Exchange of Central Ohio (BX) to provide OSHA Institute training. The BX is an approved host OSHA training site through the University of Cincinnati and Great Lakes Regional OTI Training Center. ( more... )

Safex is interested in expanding our staff of qualified Environmental Health & Safety Consultants. We are currently looking for a degreed industrial hygienist with 2-3 years of experience in Industrial Hygiene and Safety. A four year degree in a related ( more... )

Safex facilitated the AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association) sponsored Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene course March 22 -25, 2010 in Indianapolis. The training course was attended by 30 participants from 4 countries (US, Canada, Taiwan and Saudi ( more... )

Safex, an environmental health & safety consulting firm based in central Ohio, has been contracted to provide full time on-site safety/loss control during construction of a hydropower facility in Smithland, KY. This project is currently in progress with c ( more... )

Safex presents two safety webinars on Noise Compliance and PPE in partnership with Ohio Manufacturer's Association. ( more... )

US EPA Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule Summary ( more... )

Safex is pleased to announce that we are now making our web based safety tools available to customers. The applications were built to increase our efficiencies and we have decided to grant our customers access ( more... )