OSHA has increased compliance activities related to electrical safety regulations and standards in the past few years. This began with the heightened interest in arc flash hazards starting with the ...

The alarm has sounded! It is a hot, windy, summer afternoon and you are part of a response to multiple 9-1-1 reports of a brush fire that is moving toward homes. While responding, you observe a dark, ...

At the 2013 International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) Executive Summit in Orange County, Calif., ISEA President Dan Shipp outlined a new, voluntary PPE conformity assessment standard currently ...

The fire service is all about risks: The public mantra (and our mantra) is that we risk our lives to save others. We respond to emergencies where our customers have taken an intended or unintended ...

OSHA regulations require an employer to conduct a hazard assessment to determine if hazards are present, or likely to be present, that necessitate the use of Personal Protection Equipment (“PPE”). 29 ...

Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) on the jobsite is undoubtedly vital to keeping construction workers safe. Not only is it important to keep employees healthy, companies must stay in ...

The International Safety Equipment Association (ISEA) has challenged a proposed OSHA rule to regulate the use of safety eyewear and hard hats, and is offering an alternative approach that ISEA says ...

Seyfarth Synopsis: OSHA announced last week a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the personal protective equipment standard for the construction industry. A revised standard will clarify that ...

Based on the ongoing evaluation of work sites in its Enforcement Programs, State-Operated Consultation Programs, and Voluntary Protection Programs (VPPs), OSHA has established a direct correlation ...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is protective clothing, helmets, goggles, or other garments or equipment designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury or infection. The hazards addressed by ...

Remember that ignorance of these regulations will not work as a defense of an OSHA citation or when answering questions in a tort case following an electrocution. OSHA has increased compliance ...