Tag: worker safety

RHP’s Ashish Jachak, PhD to Present on Quantitative Structure Permeability Relationship Models for Dermal Penetration of Chemicals at 2024 ISES Conference

Jon Redmond /October 7, 2024

RHP Risk Management’s Ashish Jachak, PhD will present on “A Review of Quantitative Structure-Permeability Relationship Models Which Predict Dermal Absorption of Chemicals” at the 2024 International Society of Exposure Science…

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…

What is Cal OSHA Proposed Rule for Indoor Heat?

Jon Redmond /July 2, 2024

Cal OSHA’s newly proposed indoor heat rule, “Heat Illness Prevention in Indoor Places of Employment” (Title 8, section 3396), has moved closer to approval and has potential for most California employers…

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…