• Can you just use the PPE Charts in the NFPA?
    The million dollar question… Can you just use the PPE Charts in the NFPA? If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked that question… it seems like a fair question while discussing the need to conduct an Arc Flash Analysis. After all, the NFPA 70E states that a person “Can” use those […]
  • OSHA’s Severe Violators Enforcement Program Effective June 18
    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Severe Violators Enforcement Program (SVEP) directive becomes effective June 18th. The agency announced in April that it was implementing the program to focus enforcement efforts on employers who willfully and repeatedly endanger workers by exposing them to serious hazards. The directive establishe […]
  • OSHA fines US Postal Service nearly $300,000 for exposing workers to electrical hazards
    Region 3 News Release: 10-772-PHI (osha 10-82) June 8, 2010 Contact: Leni Fortson Phone: 215-861-5102 E-mail: uddyback-fortson.lenore@dol.gov US Labor Department’s OSHA fines US Postal Service nearly $300,000 for exposing workers to electrical hazards at Pittsburgh, Pa., facility PITTSBURGH, Pa. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and […]
  • With NFPA’s PPE Chart, Do you need an Arc Flash Survey?
    Over the past few years, I have encountered people who are charged with the “Safety” programs, or who are acting as “Safety” managers in facilities. Some have led me to question their sole purpose. What I mean is while those individuals are qualified to read the NFPA, they seem to forget their entire purpose… which […]
  • OSHA proposes $77,500 in fines against US Postal Service
    Region 10 News Release: 10-820-SEA (10-179) June 21, 2010 Contact: Jeannine Lupton Phone: 206-553-7620 US Labor Department’s OSHA proposes $77,500 in fines against US Postal Service for electrical hazards at Portland, Ore., mail processing facility SEATTLE – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the U.S. […]
  • Ohio Man Electrocuted at Hazle Twp. Plant
    An Ohio contractor was electrocuted Thursday morning at a Hazle Township plastics plant, according to state police. Steven A. Koffel, 47, of Canton, Ohio, was fatally shocked when his hand touched a live wire in a control panel while repairing an air compressor inside Pretium Printing, state police at Hazleton said Monday. Koffel, a service […]