This month’s draft powerpoint is an ergonomics one that seems to be popular for an OSHA 10 hour course. This will be re-edited for 2016 to make it flow better. I am still wrestling on what works for the construction sector. The simple task of shoveling can be done be machines, but ergo shovels seem to exist for snow.
The new year brings excitement as I hope to do a free CHST prep classes for the Construction Safety Council 145 Hour class in May. I think the exam reflects what a construction safety professional should know than the other exams. I have been helping a few people prepare for the exam and hope to get more this year.
In 2016, I will be buying industrial hygiene equipment for an eventual three day class. I have had many ask for the OSHA 521 class but I don’t want to do it with all rental equipment. I liked having my own equipment so I could get used to it. I know Matt Stein and John Dimos are active in IH classes. Dr. Ted Hogan teaches it at NIU. Otherwise, I don’t see too many teaching it in Chicagoland.
I finished the year with a record 2741 people trained in 2015. I hope to cut back on 25% of the training and add more activities in the classes.
Top five topics taught in 2015
Confined Space
Fall Protection
Crane Signaling
OSHA 30 Construction
OSHA 10 General Industry.
Stay warm and clean the snow off the window wipers to prevent burnout of the wiper motor. the
John
Here is the news for December 2015
1) The head of OSHA's Directorate of Construction, Jim Maddux, is retiring at the end of the year. The announcement came Dec. 2 during a meeting of OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health. Maddux has overseen construction policies since his appointment in December 2010. He joined the agency in 1990. Prior to overseeing the construction directorate, Maddux led the Office of Physical Hazards in the Directorate of Standards and Guidance and served as acting director of the Office of Engineering Safety. Pete Stafford, chairman of the advisory committee and a union safety official, praised Maddux, who was unable to attend the committee's meeting. “All of us have enjoyed working with Jim. He will be missed,” Stafford said. No one has been named to replace Maddux as an acting or permanent director. Maddux will be the third senior OSHA official to leave the agency in recent months. During the fall, the head of OSHA's training directorate, Henry Payne, retired and Deborah Berkowitz, OSHA one-time chief of staff, accepted a senior fellow position with the National Employment Law Project
2) Former Massey Energy C.E.O. Guilty in Deadly Coal Mine Blast
3) Congrats to Maureen Huey for retiring as an industrial hygiene at the OSHA Training Institute. I got to go out with her on several inspections and she had the patience to show my how to sample.
4) A panel looking at how OSHA might regulate emergency services providers, such as fire departments and ambulance companies, faces more months of discussions before the proposed rule will be presented to the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), panel members said Dec. 8.
Up for discussion is a proposal to replace the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's fire brigade rule (29 C.F.R. 1910.156) with the more expansive regulation. The potential rule, tentatively titled the Emergency Responder Preparedness Program Standard, may set requirements for planning, training, worker health and fitness, and vehicle operations.
“We do have a lot of work ahead of us, but we're making good progress,” said panel co-chairman Rick Ingram, a health and safety adviser to BP Plc.
OSHA first broached the idea of creating the panel, a subcommittee of NACOSH, in 2014 and began organizing it in June.
The panel doesn't have a deadline to complete its work, Andrew Levinson, deputy chief of OSHA's Directorate of Standards and Guidance, told Bloomberg BNA Dec. 8.
After the subcommittee has completed its work and delivered the proposed standard to NACOSH, then NACOSH may make revisions before presenting its recommended rule to OSHA, Levinson said. OSHA staff could then continue the rulemaking (RIN: 1218-AC91). The rulemaking effort is part of OSHA's response to the 2013 disaster in West, Texas, where 11 first responders died in an explosion at a fertilizer manufacturing and retail operation.
5) OSHA and Antibiotics Drops. Recordable? This always comes up in the recordkeeping class.
“The case is recordable regardless of whether the medication was given solely as a preventive measure. In the preamble to the final recordkeeping rule, OSHA specifically addressed the use of prescription antibiotics for prophylactic reasons. The agency concluded that all prescription medications should be considered medical treatment because they are powerful substances that can only be prescribed by a licensed health care professional”
6) OSHA budget remains the same. P869 of the pdf
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
$552,787,000 total
- $100,850,000 grants to States under section 23(g)
- $499,000 per fiscal year of training institute course tuition and fees,
- $10,537,000 shall be available for Susan Harwood training grants.
Riders -
That none of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act which is applicable to any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees:
7) OSHA has withdrawn from review its final rule addressing slip, trip and fall hazards – potentially further delaying the rule’s promulgation after more than two decades in development.
8) Tales from the front: I asked who trained the forklift drivers at the factory. The parts manager said he did. He doesn't actually know how to drive a forklift. I asked how he got qualified to be a trainer. He said he took an online class.
Per OSHA " A trainer must have the "knowledge, training, and experience" to train others how to safely operate the powered industrial truck in the employer's workplace. In general, the trainer will only have sufficient "experience" if he has the practical skills and judgment to be able to himself operate the equipment safely under the conditions prevailing in the employer's workplace. "
9) Many OSHA press releases are naming the insurance company in the citations. For example “Anrich Inc.'s workers' compensation insurer is Amerisafe Insurance in DeRidder, Louisiana.”https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=29133
OSHA Citations in December
Penalty State Major Issues Business
1) $44,000 OH Lockout, machine guarding, forklifts. Packaging plant
2) $103,200 PA willful lockout. 6 repeats. Box mfr.
3) $47,000 OH Repeat Machine guarding. Cookie mfr
4) $103,000 IL Willful Residential Fall Protection. Framing contractor
5) $122,000 NJ Willful diacetyl. Flavoring company
6) $43,600 PA Nonproof tested jacks. Trailer manufacturing
7) $44,800 WI Fall through hole. Concrete company.
8) $57,750 PA Willful, repeat trench. Underground construction.
9) $145,600 MA Repeat Electrical, machine guarding. Aerospace parts mfr
10) $133,000 IL Methylene chloride. Equipment repair.
11) $178,640 WI water tower fall injury Painter.
12) $462,000 OH 11 Repeat PSM. Ammonia refrigeration.
13) $47,850 TX Framing fall fatal. Framing Contractor.
14) $76,000 IL Paint overexposure. Metal Fab shop.
15) $53,900 FL Willful trenching. General contractor.
16) $56,000 FL Willful roofing fall. Roofer.
17) $56,85 OH Lead. Electronics Recycler
18) $157,080 IL Cadmium. Plating company.
19) $61,600 NJ Repeat blocked exits. Distribution warehouses.
20) $109,000 TX Crane death. Petroleum unloading facility
21) $116,270 FL Mutilated hand injury. Fiber processing
22) $131,440 OH Falls. Plastering contractor.
23) $101,500 MO Willful material storage. Warehouse.
24) $51,920 OH Willful lockout. Ready mix plant.
25) $43,560 WI Repeat machine guarding. Screen Printing.
26) $69,300 MO Forklift. Low light. Warehouse.
27) $88,200 OH three amputations. Envelope printing
28) $91,000 MA Willful fall. Roofer.
29) $44,600 TX Truss collapse. Carpenter.
30) $65,100 WV Blocked exits Amusement park.
31) $54,650 OH Willful roofing fall. Roofing contractor
32) $70,000 PA Willful falls. Stucco Contractor.
33) $162,000 IL Willful falls. Framing contractor.
34) $74,480 FL Willful falls. Roofer.
35) $40,600 PA Repeat electrical Refractory
36) $93,940 OH Willful trenching. Concrete contractor.
37) $70,000 TX Willful machine guarding. Ductwork mfr.
Large Work Payouts
1) $1.7 million in forklift injury
Major New Stories
1) BP supervisor Donald Vidrine appeared in court in New Orleans for the change-of-plea hearing
Manslaughter charges have been dropped against a BP supervisor responsible for safety aboard the rig where an explosion killed 11 workers in 2010, as he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the federal Clean Water Act.
2) 14 public workers killed in Terrorist attack in San Bernardino. Ten were SEIU members in San Bernardino.
2015 Safety Training at Non-Profits
CSC 30 Hour construction Jan 7, 9, 14, 16
CSC OSHA 500 Jan 1/11-1/15
CSC OSHA 510 in Feb
CSC Excavation Safety Upon Request
CSC Recordkeeping/ Jan 29
CSC Crane Signal Rigging Jan 6
CSC Confined Space Upon request
CSC GHS Upon Request
CSC Scaffold safety Jan 26
CSC Fall Protection Upon Request
CSC Work Zone MUTCD Upon Request
CSC Job Hazard Analysis Jan 22
NIU is Northern Illinois University OSHA Education Center http://www.nsec.niu.edu/nsec/
CSC is the Construction Safety Council in Hillside. Www.Buildsafe.org
WDCC is the Western Dupage Chamber of Commerce http://www.westerndupagechamber.com/
TRMA is Three Rivers Manufacturers Association www.trma.org
I usually teach only part of the 30 hour and the 500 series.
All presentation are put on slideshare.net for free downloading within 15 days. I use your feedback to make corrections.
