Archive for the ‘Safety regulations’ Category

OSHA Top 10 Workplace Safety Violations for 2009

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

safety-violationsIn the National Safety Council annual congress and expo, OSHA has revealed the preliminary top 10 most-frequent workplace safety violations for 2009, as published by prnewswire recently. It is very interesting to attend to this report.

It was reported that an increasing of 30% of workplace safety violations, compared with the same time period in 2008. Let’s see the most-frequent top 10 workplace safety violations.  (more…)

Applicable Health & Safety Regulations: Identifications, Updates & Compliance

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

health-safety-regulationsHealth and safety regulations directly affect the implementation of safety in an organization. They play as the main reference for any safety management system implementation. By knowing well about them, we will exactly know our regulations responsibilities.

The inputs

To identify which health and safety regulations are applicable, there are some typical inputs we should take into account. According to OHSAS 18002:2000, such typical inputs include: (more…)