Download or read book OSHA Instruction National Emphasis Program Hexavalent Chromium written by U. S. Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, OSHA issued updated standards regulating workplace exposures to hexavalent chromium in general industry, construction, and maritime. This Instruction establishes a National Emphasis Program (NEP) that focuses on the health hazards presented to workers by occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium and a number of other toxic substances often found in conjunction with hexavalent chromium. This Instruction contains directions for identifying and inspecting workplaces where workers are likely to be exposed to hexavalent chromium and the other toxic substances, as well as relevant procedures and plans for compliance assistance. This NEP supersedes all existing Regional and Local Emphasis Programs specifically addressing hexavalent chromium. This Instruction includes the following key elements: Information for selecting sites for inspection, including a list of Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) and North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes for industries known to have overexposures to hexavalent chromium; Procedures for conducting thorough inspections with an emphasis on industrial hygiene evaluations; Measures to be taken to ensure the safety and health of OSHA compliance staff while conducting inspections under this Instruction; Program evaluation procedures designed to ensure that the goals of this NEP are measured as accurately as possible. The procedures require Area Offices to conduct follow-up inspections in certain cases, including where overexposures to hexavalent chromium or the other toxic substances targeted by this NEP are cited; and, Plans for outreach to train OSHA compliance staff and the general public on the hazards addressed by this NEP, as well as effective methods for abating those hazards.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction written by U. S. Department Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by promulgating and enforcing standards and regulations; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health as well as the development of comprehensive safety and health management systems. Effective and efficient use of resources requires careful, flexible planning. In this way, the overall goal of hazard abatement and employee protection is best served. This Instruction describes policies and procedures for implementing a National Emphasis Program to identify and reduce or eliminate the health hazards associated with occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium and other toxic substances often found in conjunction with hexavalent chromium.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction written by U. S. Department Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by promulgating and enforcing standards and regulations; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health as well as the development of comprehensive safety and health management systems. Effective and efficient use of resources requires careful, flexible planning. In this way, the overall goal of hazard abatement and employee protection is best served. This Instruction describes policies and procedures for implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to identify and reduce or eliminate hazards associated with exposures to flavoring chemicals in facilities that manufacture food flavorings containing diacetyl.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction National Emphasis Program Facilities That Manufacture Food Flavorings Containing Diacetyl written by U. S. Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2006, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released a final Health Hazard Evaluation Report on its investigation at a microwave popcorn production facility. Several employees from this facility were diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, a severe obstructive lung disease. Following this investigation and the evaluation of lung function tests and air sampling results, NIOSH determined that inhalation exposure to butter-flavoring chemicals presents a risk for occupational lung disease. In April 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) seven additional cases of bronchiolitis obliterans in employees working in facilities where flavorings were manufactured. This instruction establishes an NEP to identify and reduce or eliminate hazards associated with employee exposure to flavoring chemicals in facilities that manufacture food flavorings containing diacetyl. Diacetyl is one of the most common compounds found during investigations of microwave popcorn and flavoring manufacturing facilities. This NEP provides guidance on targeting, inspection procedures, engineering controls, work practice controls, and compliance assistance.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction PSM Covered Chemical Facilities National Emphasis Program written by U. S. Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instruction provides guidance to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) national, regional, and area offices for implementing and conducting an NEP to reduce or eliminate workplace hazards associated with the catastrophic release of highly hazardous chemicals. Both programmed and unprogrammed inspections associated with this NEP will begin immediately in all Regions.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction written by U. S. Department Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by promulgating and enforcing standards and regulations; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health as well as the development of comprehensive safety and health management systems. Effective and efficient use of resources requires careful, flexible planning. In this way, the overall goal of hazard abatement and employee protection is best served. The purpose of this Instruction is to provide guidelines and establish uniform inspection and compliance procedures for the occupational exposure standards for hexavalent chromium published in the Federal Register, February 28, 2006, and effective May 30, 2006. This new Chromium (VI) Directive addresses enforcement procedures for the new Chromium (VI) standards published in the Federal Register (FR) on February 28, 2006. On that date, OSHA issued three standards for hexavalent chromium (also written as chromium (VI) and abbreviated as Cr(VI)), adding three new sections to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as Sections 29 CFR 1910.1026, 29 CFR 1926.1126, and 29 CFR 1915.1026, applicable to general industry, construction, and shipyards, respectively.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction Inspection Procedures for the Chromium VI Standards written by U. S. Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Chromium (VI) Directive addresses enforcement procedures for the new Chromium (VI) standards published in the Federal Register (FR) on February 28, 2006. On that date, OSHA issued three standards for hexavalent chromium (also written as chromium (VI) and abbreviated as Cr(VI)), adding three new sections to the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) as Sections 29 CFR 1910.1026, 29 CFR 1926.1126, and 29 CFR 1915.1026, applicable to general industry, construction, and shipyards, respectively. All three standards were effective May 30, 2006. Employers with 20 or more employees were allowed six months, until a start-up date of November 27, 2006, to come into compliance with most of the provisions of the standards. Employers with 19 or fewer employees were allowed 12 months, until a start-up date of May 30, 2007, to come into compliance with most of the provisions. All employers were allowed four years from the effective date, a deadline of May 31, 2010, to install feasible engineering controls. The general industry standard, 29 CFR 1910.1026, also includes an appended settlement agreement with the Surface Finishing Industry Council (SFIC). This new Directive provides policy and guidance for enforcement of all three Cr(VI) standards, and implementation of these enforcement procedures shall begin on the effective date of this Directive. Special policies are also provided for enforcement until May 31, 2010, when employers must comply with requirements for feasible engineering and work practice controls. The new Cr(VI) standards have lowered the permissible exposure limit (PEL) to 5 g/m3 and established an action level of 2.5 g/m3.
Download or read book Environmental Law Handbook written by Kevin A. Ewing and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 24th edition, the Environmental Law Handbook gives readers a comprehensive and up-to-date look at the major environmental laws affecting U.S. businesses and organizations. Written and compiled by the country’s leading environmental law firms, it provides the comprehensive and reliable guidance you can trust.
Download or read book OSHA Instruction written by U. S. Department Labor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OSHA's mission is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by promulgating and enforcing standards and regulations; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual improvement in workplace safety and health as well as the development of comprehensive safety and health management systems. Effective and efficient use of resources requires careful, flexible planning. In this way, the overall goal of hazard abatement and employee protection is best served. This instruction describes policies and procedures for a National Emphasis Program (NEP) to reduce or eliminate the workplace hazards associated with the catastrophic release of highly hazardous chemicals.
Download or read book Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium written by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium written by Department of Health and Human Services and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-596), it established the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Through the Act, Congress charged NIOSH with recommending occupational safety and health standards and describing exposure levels that are safe for various periods of employment, including but not limited to the exposures at which no worker will suffer diminished health, functional capacity, or life expectancy because of his or her work experience. Criteria documents contain a critical review of the scientific and technical information about the prevalence of hazards, the existence of safety and health risks, and the adequacy of control methods. By means of criteria documents, NIOSH communicates these recommended standards to regulatory agencies, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), health professionals in academic institutions, industry, organized labor, public interest groups, and others in the occupational safety and health community. This criteria document is derived from the NIOSH evaluation of critical health effects studies of occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium (Cr[VI]) compounds. It provides recommendations for controlling workplace exposures including a revised recommended exposure limit (REL) derived using current quantitative risk assessment methodology on human health effects data. Cr(VI) compounds include a large group of chemicals with varying chemical properties, uses, and workplace exposures. Their properties include corrosion-resistance, durability, and hardness. Sodium dichromate is the most common chromium chemical from which other Cr(VI) compounds may be produced. Materials containing Cr(VI) include various paint and primer pigments, graphic art supplies, fungicides, corrosion inhibitors, and wood preservatives. Some of the industries in which the largest numbers of workers are exposed to high concentrations of Cr(VI) compounds include electroplating, welding, and painting. An estimated 558,000 U.S. workers are exposed to airborne Cr(VI) compounds in the workplace.
Download or read book Employment Law written by Timothy P. Glynn and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. Employment Law: Private Ordering and Its Limitations, Fourth Edition is organized around the rights and duties that flow between parties in an employment relationship. Through cases, detailed discussion of the facts, and accessible notes and questions, this book examines the laws that are intended to balance the competing interests and contractual obligations between employer and employee. The note materials also encourage students to think critically and creatively about how best to protect the interests of workers or employers. Practitioner exercises in planning, drafting, advising, and negotiating develop transactional lawyering skills. New to the Fourth Edition: Important Supreme Court and lower court cases in key areas including the scope of “employment,” whistleblower and anti-retaliation protections, anti-discrimination laws, disability and other accommodations, noncompetition agreements, and mandatory arbitration clauses Addition of cases and note materials on hot topics including employment protections in the gig economy, workplace speech protections in a time of deep social and political conflict, the workplace implications of AI and other technologies, emergent privacy and cyber security issues, and innovations in accommodating workers’ lives Updated problems and exercises Streamlined case and note editing Professors and students will benefit from: Comprehensive and deep coverage of key areas of workplace regulation Practical exercises in each chapter Note materials designed to provide both context and knowledge of emergent legal and social science scholarship Thematic consistency across chapters providing a unifying framework for the discussion of disparate topic areas
Download or read book Safety and Health Regulations for Longshoring written by United States. Bureau of Labor Standards and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book OSHA Field Inspection Reference Manual written by and published by Government Inst. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn where OSHA inspectors will look, what they'll look for, how they'll evaluate your working conditions, and how they'll actually proceed once inside your facility. This manual, used by OSHA, gives you insight into OSHA's views on abatement, fatality/catastrophe investigations, citations, imminent danger investigations, penalties, construction inspections, review commission, and federal agency inspections.
Download or read book Reusable Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protecting the health and safety of health care workers is vital to the health of each of us. Preparing for and responding to a future influenza pandemic or to a sustained outbreak of an airborne transmissible disease requires a high-level commitment to respiratory protection for health care workers across the wide range of settings in which they work and the jobs that they perform. Keeping health care workers healthy is an ethical commitment both in terms of addressing the occupational risks faced by health care workers and of providing for the continuity of patient care and services needed to maintain the health of individuals and communities. During a public health emergency, challenges will arise concerning the availability of respiratory protective devices (i.e., respirators). Reusable respirators (specifically, reusable half-facepiece elastomeric respirators) are the standard respiratory protection device used in many industries, and they provide an option for use in health care that has to date not been fully explored. The durability and reusability of elastomeric respirators make them desirable for stockpiling for emergencies, where the need for large volumes of respirators can be anticipated. However, they are used infrequently in health care. Reusable Elastomeric Respirators in Health Care explores the potential for the use of elastomeric respirators in the U.S. health care system with a focus on the economic, policy, and implementation challenges and opportunities. This report examines the practicability of elastomeric use in health care on a routine basis and during an influenza pandemic or other large aerosol-transmissible outbreak, when demand for respiratory protective devices by U.S. health care personnel may be larger than domestic supplies. The report also addresses the issues regarding emergency stockpile management of elastomeric respiratory protective devices.
