OSHA Update
LIA is committed to keeping the workplace safe from hazards associated with lasers. LIA formed an Alliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to help achieve these goals.
OSHA and LIA recognize the value of establishing a collaborative relationship to foster safer and more healthful American workplaces. This Alliance provides LIA’s members and others, including small businesses, with information, guidance and access to training resources that will help them protect employees’ health and safety, particularly in reducing and preventing exposure to laser beam and non-beam hazards in industrial and medical workplaces. In addition, the organizations will focus on sharing information on laser regulations and standards, bioeffects lasers have on the eyes and skin, laser control measures and laser safety program administration.
OSHA Issues Temporary Enforcement Policy for Confined Spaces in Construction The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a 60-day temporary enforcement policy of its Confined Spaces in Construction standard.
During this 60-day temporary enforcement period, OSHA will not issue citations to employers who make good faith efforts to comply with the new standard. Employers must be in compliance with either the training requirements of the new standard or the previous standard. Employers who fail to train their employees consistent with either of these two standards will be cited.
Factors that indicate employers are making good faith efforts to comply include: scheduling training for employees as required
by the new standard; ordering the equipment necessary to comply with the new standard; and taking alternative measures to educate and protect employees from confined space hazards.
OSHA issued the Confined Spaces in Construction final rule on May 4, 2015. The rule provides construction workers with protections similar to those manufacturing and general industry workers have, with some differences tailored to the construction industry. These include requirements to ensure that multiple employers share vital safety information and to continuously monitor hazards – a safety option made possible by technological advances after the manufacturing and general industry standards were created.
For more information, visit
www.osha.gov.
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