Tag: Haz Comm

U.S. EPA Issues Final Standard for Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Programs

Jon Redmond /August 14, 2024

After consideration of public comments to the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment (DfE) Standard (88 FR 78017, November 14, 2023 (FRL-115180-01)), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued…

OSHA Proposes National Worker Heat Stress Rule to Protect Indoor and Outdoor Workers from Extreme Heat

Jon Redmond /July 8, 2024

In what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is calling a “significant step toward a federal heat standard to protect workers”, the agency is issuing a Notice of Proposed…

Understanding Hazard vs. Risk in the Media: Chlormequat in Cereal Grains

Jon Redmond /May 24, 2024

How often does the average person calculate a hazard vs. risk? Further, what does risk mean across our everyday decisions? A lineman may define risk as climbing poles to repair high…

Two States Take Steps to Ban PFAS Following US EPA Publishing of Final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for PFAS

Jon Redmond /March 19, 2024

Rule Summary for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Late last year, on October 11, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting…

ANSI/ASSP Issues First Voluntary Consensus Standard for Construction Workers and Demolition Operations

Jon Redmond /March 13, 2024

As the Summer of 2024 approaches, employers in the construction and demolition industries can better prepare by following the newly published heat stress management guidance from the American National Standards…