“OSHA and NIOSH will work with trade associations, labor unions, employers, universities, community and faith-based organizations, and consulates to provide employers and workers — especially ...

Students will participate in workshops demonstrating the inspection and usage of fall protection equipment, residential construction fall protection, training requirements, and developing a fall ...

If your fall protection training program isn’t focused on providing the right content, at the right cadence, from the right communicator, your program could be missing the mark.

Improvements can be in the form of purchasing new equipment, inviting fall protection manufacturers to conduct in-depth training sessions, or incorporating more employees into the safety program.

Prior to the launch of the fall protection program, an OSHA compliance officer couldn’t initiate an inspection “unless there was an imminent danger,” Cain said in an interview.

So it may be no accident that OSHA's Region IV REP focuses on all three areas: construction workers, fall protection and Latino and non-English-speaking people. Ross, the top enforcement official in ...

OSHA requires a fall protection system when residential activities are 6 feet or greater. The willful violations carry penalties of $215,600.

A partnership of standards, ANSI/ASSE Z359-2007 Fall Arrest Code, which takes effect this month, provides general industry with knowledgeable, practical norms and guidelines essential to a proactive ...

In June 1999, OSHA answered with the issuance of Directive Number STD 03-00-001. This directive had allowed employers engaged in residential construction work, without first proving that the use of ...

1. Training If your fall protection training program isn’t focused on providing the right content, at the right cadence, from the right communicator, your program could be missing the mark. Consider ...