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.
Ohio Auto Parts Manufacturer Faces $3.42 Million in Fines after OSHA Finds Company Willfully Exposed Temporary Workers to Machine Hazards
The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued 57 citations for safety violations
to
Sunfield Inc., an Ohio auto parts’ manufacturer. The agency has also proposed the company pay more than $3.42 million in total fines for its failure to disconnect machinery from a power supply and prevent sudden movement before maintenance and service; and to train workers in how to operate machine presses safely and to service and maintain them.
The fines assessed are one of the largest OSHA penalties ever filed against a company in the automotive parts industry.
Federal investigators inspected Sunfield’s Hebron plant after two workers suffered severe injuries in separate incidents in
OSHA today issued citations for 46 egregious willful, two willful, one repeated and eight serious safety violations with penalties totaling $3,426,900 to Sunfield. The agency also placed the company in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program for failure to address these safety hazards. Most of the violations involve lack of machine safety procedures which expose workers to amputation, lacerations and other injuries.
For more information, visit
www.osha.gov.
January and February 2016. The facility has an extensive history of federal safety violations dating back 20 years. The company, which investigators found to have a high rate of employee turnover, supplies parts for several major Japanese and domestic automakers.
REVISED!
GUIDE TWELFTH LASER SAFETY
Helping ensure proper laser safety at your workplace!
• Updated to reflect major changes in the revised ANSI Z136.1 Safe Use of Lasers standard
• Outlines potential hazards for all types of lasers
• Easy to understand guidelines for controlling laser hazards
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