Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

OSHA refers to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which supervises workplace sanitation and safety conditions. They are extremely important because they make sure that workers do not have to work in unsafe establishments.

Army Regulation 385-10 includes the OSHA regulations. This is the Army's document that outlines and contains the Army Safety Program.

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No - OSHA is not a approval body. OSHA created regulations and enforces them. Organizations such as ANSI (American National Standards Institute) creates standards, and approves items to those standards. As for an ANSI approved safety shoe from Nike - I don't know...

Getting an x-ray is often a diagnostic procedure and may not make an event OSHA recordable. If the X-ray does not detect an injury requiring medical treatment beyond first aid, the event is not recordable. If it does detect such a condition, it is the subsequent treatment beyond first aid that makes the event recordable, not the x-ray.

The only time getting an X-ray could be OSHA recordable would be if the process were used for treatment of an injury or condition.

The OSHA regulation on the topic states that you as an employee have a right to review your medical records held by or for your employer. There are certain limitations but basically you or your designated representative have the right to see the records at any reasonable time.

You do not, however, have a right to see someone else's medical records unless they give written permission.

OSHA established an outreach training program to provide training for workers and employers on the recognition, avoidance, abatement, and prevention of safety and health hazards in workplaces.

This program has 10-hour or 30-hour classes, which are referred to as "OSHA 10" and "OSHA 30". The 10-hour class is intended for entry level workers, while the 30-hour class is more appropriate for supervisors or workers with some safety responsibility - specifically devised for safety directors, foremen, and field supervisors; the program provides complete information on OSHA compliance issues.

Workers or employers can get them through onsite training programs, traditional classroom setting programs or online programs. they just have to look for OSHA authorized providers.

Most outdoor work has no maximum wind speed. Crane lifting and the like will have maximum speed criteria, but this will depend on the specific crane and the work being done and will be set by the crane manufacturer..

OSHA enforces the provisions of the Williams-Steiger Occupational Safety and Health Act and the regulations that have been issued under its authority. OSHA also enforces the whistle-blower provisions of numerous other laws, many of them not related to workplace safety and health.

Employers with 15 or fewer employees are not subject to random (general schedule) OSHA inspections. However, they can still be inspected if an employee files a complaint or there is a reportable event such as a workplace fatality.

The person at the head of OSHA is the US Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.

No. It is only OSHA recordable if the Over the Counter (OTC) recommended doseage is exceeded. If the OTC doseage is not exceeded, it is considered first aid.

However if the daily maximum doseage is no more than 2 pills (1000mg) 3 times per day (total of 3000mg), and the physician prescribes the patient to take more than 2 pills at a time or more than 6 pills in a 24 hour period then the recommended OTC doseage is exceeded and it would be considered recordable by OSHA.

If an OSHA inspector finds a violation, it will be mentioned to management in the closing conference, unless it depends on air sampling results. Then the company may be notified by mail after the inspection. The citation will be reviewed by the OSHA Area or Regional Manager. If confirmed by OSHA management, a citation will be issued, with a proposed fine.

The company may have an informal conference with OSHA to discuss whether the citation is justified and the proposed fine appropriate. The company also can file a formal notice of contest and contest the citation through Administrative Law Judges and even the civil courts.

After the citation is final, the company must pay the fine and take whatever action is necessary to eliminate the violation and ensure it is not repeated.

1. Every company and organization or business involved in jobs that are hazardous such as construction.

2. Every worker who operates in those hazardous workplaces.

3. People who can be affected by the hazards and dangers of a workplace (like a passerby)

After an OSHA inspection you should have a closing conference with the inspector at which time you will get an idea of what, if any, citations are likely. If you believe that any of the inspectors observations are correct, you should immediately begin actions to fix the problems that were noted, and keep OSHA informed of those actions as they show a good faith intention to comply with the regulations.

Some time after the inspection OSHA will send you written notice of the actual citations they propose to give you, and the suggested fines. At that point you have an opportunity to meet informally with OSHA to discuss the proposed citations and fines, the circumstances that may have been misinterpreted by the OSHA inspector, what you have done since the inspection to fix the problems, and what you plan to do in the future to address these issues.

After the informal meeting, if OSHA decides to issue citations or fines, you will receive formal written notice. If you receive that notice and have not taken advantage of your right to an informal conference, you have wasted a valuable resource.

Once you receive the formal notice of citation, you have 30 days to file a formal notice of contest, if you intend to formally oppose the citation. If you file , there will be a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge working for the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Your advocate can then explain why you think you should not be cited or fined.

If you do not formally oppose the citation, or you loose your appeals, the citation becomes final. Then the thing to do is pay the fine, post the citation in the workplace as required along with an explanation of what you will do to fix the cited problems, and then proceed to fix them expeditiously.

If you are truly at sea about this process or your rights, a lawyer specializing in this area of the law can help you through it.

OSHA does not "approve" any tools or equipment. So composite toe boots cannot be "OSHA approved." However, those composite toe boots that meet the relevant ANSI standard will comply with OSHA requirements if selected, used, and maintained appropriately.

The construction standards are MAINLY in 29 CFR 1926. There are also a few General Industry standards (1910) and Administrative matters (1904) that apply to Construction- but mainly 1926.

By Executive Order the Army, and the other branches of the US armed forces, are directed to provide occupational safety and health at least as stringent as that of OSHA.

The executive branch administrative agencies (like OSHA) don't generally have authority on military installations, or in military operations. Typically there will be a military manual that essentually restates the civilian requirements, but is enforced by inspectors in the military. Of course, if the General has an issue and calls the local OSHA office an inspector would be willing do an inspection.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration is responsible for providing basic safety standards for employers in the private sector. Their standards apply to most- but not all workers in the US. It does not cover workers regulated by other agencies- such as transportation, mining, etc. It does not apply to a family farm, a one man business, or workers outside the US. Certain government employees are also not covered.

Some OSHA regulations require periodic refresher training and some do not. Different States and location requires different kinds of refresher training and it depends on the period. Some requires it after two years some longer.

OSHA does not define the word "accident" and does not use it in its regulations.

Since the ILO (International Labor Organization) issues guides, not regulations, and OSHA issues legally enforceable regulations, the products of the two organizations are not similar, even though they are sometimes about the same or similar topics.

Imminent Danger inspection

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According to OSHA, it is a space that "contains or has the potential to contain a hazardous atmosphere; contains material that has the potential to engulf an entrant; has walls that converge inward or floors that slope downward and taper into a smaller area which could trap or asphyxiate an entrant; or contains any other recognized safety or health hazard, such as unguarded machinery, exposed live wires, or heat stress."