OSHA has implemented a “Weekend Work” initiative in which federal workplace safety and health inspections will occur randomly on weekends throughout Colorado.
Contractors and employers no longer need to record adverse side effects that workers experience from COVID-19 vaccinations, according to OSHA's FAQ page.
A Tennessee contractor faces more than $122,000 in violations after a 16-year-old boy in their employ doing roof construction fell to his death in June 2020.
Thanks to its response to making its facilities safer during the COVID pandemic and shifting to manufacture PPE, Duro-Last received Star Site status from OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program.
After multiple on-site investigations, OSHA cited the companies for exposing workers to falls and other dangerous safety hazards while erecting walls and sheathing roofs.
According to a safety study, providing more safety interventions produces a sense of invulnerability, leading roofers to take more risks and become less safe overall.
The roofing contractor's latest violation of Oregon OSHA’s 6-foot trigger-height requirement was the seventh such violation committed by the company since May 2018.
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