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.
US Labor Department Announces Final Rule to Improve US Workers’ Protection from the Dangers of ‘Respirable’ Silica Dust
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced a final rule to improve protections for workers exposed to respirable silica dust. The rule will curb lung cancer, silicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and kidney disease in America’s workers by limiting their exposure to respirable crystalline silica.
“More than 80 years ago, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins identified silica dust as a deadly hazard and called on employers to fully protect workers,” said US Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez. “This rule will save lives. It will enable workers to earn a living without sacrificing their health. It builds upon decades of research and a lengthy stakeholder engagement
process – including the consideration of thousands of public comments – to finally give workers the kind of protection they deserve and that Frances Perkins had hoped for them.”
OSHA estimates that when the final rule on Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica becomes fully effective, it will save more than 600 lives annually and prevent more than 900 new cases of silicosis – an incurable and progressive disease – each year. The agency also estimates the final rule will provide net benefits of about $7.7 billion per year.
“The previous exposure limits were outdated and did not adequately protect workers,” said Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels.
For more information, visit
www.osha.gov.
Training For All Laser Personnel
Convenient
Learn basic physics, biological effects, control measures for safe laser environments, and beam and non-beam hazards.
Learn basic physics, biological effects, control measures for safe laser environments, and beam and non-beam hazards.
Understand the ANSI Z136 standards and regulations that apply to your unique laser environment.
Understand the ANSI Z136 standards and regulations that apply to your unique laser environment.
Access the course anywhere and work at your own pace.
Access the course anywhere and work at your own pace.
The course administrator is able to keep track of all records and certificates upon completion.
The course administrator is able to keep track of all records and certificates upon completion.
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Laser Safety Awareness ONLINE TRAINING 28 LIATODAY FOCUS: LASERS IN MANUFACTURING MARCH/APRIL 2016
www.lia.org/education 1.800.34.LASER
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