Confined Space Training: Signs and Symptoms of Exposure
Sep 6, 2017
The rules that deal with confined space training are clear. Entrants and attendants may need to know a lot about medical issues.
Sep 6, 2017
The rules that deal with confined space training are clear. Entrants and attendants may need to know a lot about medical issues.
Categorized under: Rescue Blog, Safety Blog
Tagged as: Confined Space, confined space entry, confined space regulations, OSHA regulations, OSHA Safety
Jul 28, 2015
On a construction site we often need to position some workers above the ground and others below. So we often find scaffolds erected near excavations. While no one would intentionally place a scaffold leg on the lip of an excavation both the excavation competent person and the scaffold competent person (yes, both scaffolds and excavations require competent persons) should be able to answer the question: how close is too close?
Categorized under: Safety Blog
Tagged as: excavations, OSHA compliance, OSHA regulations, OSHA Safety, scaffolds
Jun 24, 2015
If a fall arrest anchor can’t withstand the forces generated, nothing else matters. But when a worker clips in, how can they be assured that the anchor will function if and when it’s needed? This is essentially a quality assurance question and assuring quality requires a variety of processes, none of which are complicated but each are required to make the system work. In this blog we have broken the processes down into various steps with the focus on fall arrest anchors.
Categorized under: Safety Blog
Tagged as: Fall Protection, fall protection training, OSHA compliance, OSHA regulations, OSHA Safety
Jun 27, 2014
Would you work at the toe of a nine-foot vertical wall of dirt with no protective system? Hopefully your answer is ‘no.’ But what if you received a letter from a soils engineer who had evaluated the composition of the dirt and declared it safe? Is an excavation safe because a soil engineer says it is?
Categorized under: Safety Blog
Tagged as: competent person, Excavation Safety, OSHA compliance, OSHA regulations, osha requirements, OSHA Safety
Apr 9, 2013
The requirement to provide a means of rescue when workers enter permit-required confined spaces is well known aspect of the OSHA regulations. But employers, who are rarely rescue experts, often do not know how these teams should be equipped and trained.
Categorized under: Rescue Blog
Tagged as: Confined Space, confined space entry, OSHA regulations, rescue, rescue team
Nov 7, 2011
Recently OROSHA released the text of of proposed changes to the confined space standards rules. Their goal is to bring construction under the same standards as general industry. The proposed rules can be found here:
http://www.orosha.org/pdf/notices/proposed2011/propchgs_conf_sp.pdf
Categorized under: Rescue Blog, Safety Blog
Tagged as: D2000, OSHA regulations, OSHA Safety, Recent Projects
Aug 15, 2011
Last Sunday while skimming the business section of our local newspaper (Eugene’s Register Guard), I came across an article on training wind turbine workers so that they can avoid accidents and injuries. A key point in the article was the problem with existing wind turbine safety standards.
Categorized under: Rescue Blog, Safety Blog
Tagged as: D2000, OSHA regulations, tower rescue