BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to evaluate trends in occupational lead exposures throughout U.S. industry after the establishment of the general industry lead standard in 1978 and the construction industry standard in 1993. METHODS Lead exposure measurements collected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under their compliance and consultation programs were ana...

This article describes an innovative approach to reach and educate workers and worker advocates about California's outdoor heat illness prevention standard. In 2010, Cal/OSHA initiated a statewide education campaign to reduce heat-related illnesses and fatalities and increase awareness of the standard's requirements. In Southern California, the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program ...

Vocational agriculture teachers should be concerned with student exposure to noise in agricultural mechanics laboratories. "Instruction in agricultural mechanics is basic to all specialized programs in vocational agriculture" (Zurbrick, 1973). Zurbrick found that over 86% of the employees in all agricultural job titles required one or more skills in agricultural mechanics. Studies have shown th...

Overview Residents from the Village of Endicott, New York have been concerned about residential and workplace exposure from a microelectronics and business machines manufacturing facility in Endicott. These concerns led to studies of area residents and also led the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Congressional representatives from New York, and community stakeholders to ask the Na...

While it has been established for many years that the management of Occupational Safety and Health (OHS) is carried out by means of management systems, the question of how to measure the performance and control of these systems is still current. Uncertainties related to their operation and the difficulty of gathering information about their level of performance makes control of performance vari...

This study was supported by ANSES (French agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, APR EST 2011 TeMIS, CDC/NIOSH (grant # R01OH008017-01) and by the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) (grant # UL1 RR024992), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and ...

The concept of occupational health and safety (OHS) for commercial sex workers has rarely been investigated, perhaps because of the often informal nature of the workplace, the associated stigma, and the frequently illegal nature of the activity. We reviewed the literature on health, occupational risks, and safety among commercial sex workers. Cultural and local variations and commonalities were...

www.nursingcenter.com THE OCCUPATIONAL Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is cracking down on facilities that don’t comply with sharps-safety regulations. Two citations issued in 2003 show that health care facilities must fully comply with OSHA’s requirement to use safety-engineered sharp devices or pay a price. In 2001, OSHA revised the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, strengthening its req...

On March 13, 2015, OSHA published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise its eye and face protection standards for general industry, shipyard employment, marine terminals, longshoring, and construction by updating the references to national consensus standards approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). OSHA received no significant objections ...

The aims of this study were 1) to assess the ergonomic physical risk factors from practitioner's viewpoint in a truck assembly plant with an in-house observational method and the NIOSH lifting equation, and 2) to compare the results of both methods and their differences. The in-house ergonomic observational method for truck assembly i.e. the SCANIA Ergonomics Standard (SES) and the NIOSH liftin...