OSHA 300 Log Basics The "Skinny" All impacted employers with 11 or more employees in the calendar year must create and post their OSHA 300A log each year. Surprisingly, many companies are unaware of this requirement, especially smaller ones who may have recently surpassed the 10 employee trigger. What's an OSHA 300 log, why should I care, and how do I complete it? READ ON.... In This Issue OSHA 300 Log Primer, contact me. rcarr@bes-corp.com (512) 923-0374 The [...]
CHECKOUT OUR NEW OSHA TRIR & DART VIDEO. Back by popular demand, our OSHA Power Brief that discusses and explains TRIR and DART: The Skinny: In this edition of our OSHA Power Brief series, we'll define and discuss two critical safety performance metrics: • TRIR: Total Recordable Incident Rate • DART: Days Away from work, days of Restricted work activity, and/or days of jobs Transfer Why is it important to understand these key safety metrics? • The [...]
A local general contractor was fined $10,000+ this week for violations committed by one of their subcontractors. The violations involved fall protection, scaffolding and workers not wearing PPE. This is noteworthy because these violations arose due to OSHA’s Controlling Employer/Multi-Employer doctrine (see below). In our experience, OSHA typically only fines the subcontractor, but in this instance they fined the subcontractor as well as the general contractor for the same violations. In addition to these current fines, the general contractor [...]
Can you honestly answer “yes” to each of the following questions?: ▪ Do you know which environmental, health and safety rules and regulations apply to your business and operations? ▪ Are you certain that your company is in full compliance with each of these OSHA, TCEQ and EPA rules and regulations? ▪ Would you and your staff know what to do if one of these agencies showed up tomorrow for a surprise enforcement inspection? If not, you’re not alone. [...]
Back by popular demand, our OSHA Power Brief that discusses and explains TRIR and DART: The Skinny: In this edition of our OSHA Power Brief series, we'll define and discuss two critical safety performance metrics: • TRIR: Total Recordable Incident Rate • DART: Days Away from work, days of Restricted work activity, and/or days of jobs Transfer Why is it important to understand these key safety metrics? • The primarily value of TRIR and DART is to evaluate and [...]
OSHA Begins Targeting Staffing Agencies & Issuing Significant Fines & Penalties UPDATE: OSHA continues to target staffing agencies with enforcement inspections to hold them accountable for failing to manage safety. OSHA has begun following through on their recent threat to target staffing agencies for health & safety violations. On July 15th, OSHA issued a memorandum regarding intentions to ramp up enforcement efforts directed at staffing agencies and host employers in an effort to protect “temporary workers”, as well as [...]