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Nothing Is Final Yet: OSHA’s Deregulatory Docket Reaches the Hearing Room
By NASP Blogger Current Events
OSHA’s deregulatory rulemaking effort moves into its most visible phase this month. The agency begins a series of informal public hearings on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. ET, held virtually and continuing on subsequent weekdays. More than twenty proposed rules are on the docket, and this is the point at which the record…
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Extreme Heat Impacts Injuries, Study Reveals
06.04.2019 ComplianceExtreme heat affects workers’ health by creating conditions in which illnesses can arise, but new research shows high temperatures have…
Protecting Workers from the Effects of Heat
06.04.2019 ComplianceAs much of the Southeast is battling record high temperatures this late Spring, NASP thought we would share with you…
Watch Out for These 5 Types of Environmental Hazards
06.04.2019 CompliancePreventing environmental hazards is crucial to the success of any company regardless of the scale of operations or industry. The…
Improving Safety Knowledge Retention Rates
05.29.2019 CompliancePeople seem attentive during training but afterwards they quickly forget what they’ve learned. What steps can I take to improve…
The Habit of Safety
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Safety from the Shadows
05.15.2019 ComplianceThe Problem of Informal Social Power in Industrial Safety Safety is about good intentions. What nobler goal could there be…
Causes, Costs of Injuries in 8 Industries
05.14.2019 ComplianceThe 2019 Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index is more specific than in previous years. This year’s index, for the first…
Locking Out Decision Fatigue
05.07.2019 ComplianceIf you wanted to summarize the safety profession for a layperson, you would do well to start with lockout/tagout (LOTO)…
DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions
04.30.2019 ComplianceWhat are the DOT HAZMAT Shipping Key Definitions? Dangerous goods: Interchangeable with the term “hazardous materials” and mainly used in…
Controlling Hazardous Energy with Lockout/Tagout—Common Challenges and Best Practices
04.23.2019 ComplianceWe have found that only about 10 percent of companies run effective lockout programs. In fact, we have observed that…
Temporary structure, permanent safety
04.17.2019 ComplianceHelp keep employees safe during all stages of scaffolding work On a November day in 1994, a 60-year-old painter foreman…
Trenching and excavation safety
04.12.2019 ComplianceProper protective systems, competent person key to incident prevention George Kennedy can recall multiple incidents involving unprotected workers and trench…
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