While OSHA’s 2012 funding remains relatively flat, the organization has proposed major budgetary shifts to the Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program (OWPP). This is part of a strategy to encourage more employees to report alleged workplace violations.

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The deadline to post OSHA 300 logs was February 1, 2012. If you haven’t posted yet, don’t panic. You might be exempt. This short video walks you through the record keeping requirements and many exemptions. The video focuses on federal OSHA guidelines; some state agencies may have different requirements. Check…

Everyone knows that eyes are more vulnerable to accident and injury than any other part of your body. Just one small, even microscopic foreign particle can do serious or…

This month OSHA published a whitepaper on Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (I2P2).  Leading up to this publication, there has been a lot of regulatory activity around I2P2. Shortly after proposing a federal standard for I2P2 in 2010, OSHA held a series of stakeholder meetings on the subject.  In this…