Tag: OSHA

RHP’s Ashish Jachak, PhD is Scheduled to Speak on Dermal Absorption of Chemicals at the 2024 PSX Conference

Jon Redmond /October 7, 2024

  RHP Risk Management’s Ashish Jachak, PhD will join product stewardship professionals at the PSX Conference in Denver, CO from October 15-17, 2024. The PSX Conference is designed to encourage…

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…

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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…

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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…

Maximum Penalties for OSHA Violations Increase: What Does this Mean for Your Business?

Jon Redmond /February 29, 2024

The U.S. Department of Labor’s has made changes to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) rules by increasing the maximum civil penalty amounts, and putting business owners at risk for…