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OSHA Interpretation Letters on Electrical Safety
The OSHA electrical safety standard is contained in Part 1926, Subpart K. As with most OSHA standards (and OHS regulations in Canada), the OSHA electrical standard establishes general rules and is often short on the crucial implementation details. However, OSHA issues letters in response to questions from the public that explain how the agency interprets [...]
Prevent Heat Stress Injuries and Liability
All employers have a legal obligation to safeguard their workers against the risks of heat stress. This article will explain where the obligation comes from and how to comply with it.
Heat Stress and the Law
OSHA doesn’t have a specific standard on heat stress hazards. But it has cited employers for exposing employees to excessively hot [...]
Heat Stress Law in Canada
Jim’s article and the guidelines he recommends are 100% relevant to Canadian employers.
Some provinces, including British Columbia and Saskatchewan, have OHS regulations requiring specific measures to guard employees against extreme heat. All provinces also have a General Duty Clause similar to the one in the OSHA law that Jim discusses in his article.
And, just as [...]
Educating Workers to the Dangers
Heat illness is dangerous. But it doesn’t strike without warning. There are signs and symptoms associated with each of the various forms of heat illness–heat cramps, heat exhaustion and, most dangerous of all, heat stroke (we’ll refer to these illnesses collectively as “heat stress”). The problem is that supervisors and workers aren’t always attuned to [...]
Contracting Traps to Avoid
Your degree of involvement in contracting may vary depending on the company you work for. For example, safety directors at small companies typically get involved in the actual contract writing of a contract, while at larger companies that chore is generally assigned to in-house counsel. But all safety directors have at least some involvement in [...]
6 More Contract Mistakes to Avoid
Editor’s Note: This is an edited version of an outstanding article from a website called AllBusiness.com that sets out the 6 mistakes that small businesses commonly make when negotiating and drafting contracts. I don’t know very much about AllBusiness.com other than the fact that it has an outstanding website that I heartily recommend you visit [...]
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When Safety & Religion Collide
Situation: A company requires workers to wear a hardhat when they’re in a construction zone. The safety rule is consistent with ANSI and CSA standards and required under OSHA laws. One of your workers belongs to the Sikh religion. It’s against his religion to remove his turban. And, because the hardhat can’t be worn over [...]
June 15, 1785
Jean-Francois Pilâtre de Rozier was a chemist born in the French town of Metz in 1734. In 1783, while Rozier was teaching physics in Paris, he witnessed the first manned balloon flight staged by the famous Montgolfier Brothers. Rozier was bitten by the aviation bug and began doing his own experiments. In November 1783, he [...]