Prevention and OSHA Regulations

A worker should be able to go to work each day and expect to return home uninjured and in good health. There is no logical reason why a worker should be part of workplace carnage. Workers do not have to become one of the yearly workplace statistics. 

Workers who know the occupational safety and health rules and safe work procedures, and follow them, are less likely to become one of the 6,100 occupational trauma deaths, one of90,000 occupational illness deaths, or even one of the 6.8 million nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses. 

The essence of workplace safety and health should not test upon OSHA regulations, since they are not the driving forces behind workplace safety and health. 

OSHA has limited resources for inspection and a limited number of inspectors. Enforcement is usually based on serious complaints, catastrophic events and workplace deaths. An employer with a good safety and health program and safety record has a better opportunity of getting a contracts and orders because of his or her workplace safety and health record, and reap the benefits of low insurance premiums for workers compensation and liability. Usually, safety and health are linked to the bottom line, which is seldom perceived as humanitarian. 

This chapter will provide answers to many of the questions, which are frequently asked, regarding OSHA compliance, workplace safety and health, and how workers and employers are to mesh with the intent of a having a safe and healthy workplace. 

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Council (NSC), fire code agencies, local fire authorities, and OSHA regulations. In this section, we discuss fire prevention and control and fire protection provided by the use of fire extinguishers. 

Occupational Safety and Health J ct. OSHA regulations deal principally with physical aspects of safety and those things generally associated with accident prevention. These federal regulations deal especially with the need for estabHshed material safety data sheets and the proper labeling of printing inks under the Hazard Communication Laws. 

Implement a program to define and record information on reactive incidents that OSHA investigates or requires to be investigated under OSHA regulations. Structure the collected information so that it can be used to measure progress in the prevention of reactive incidents that give rise to catastrophic releases. 

Health and Safety Factors. Some of the Vazo products are mild skin or eye irritants in laboratory animals (Table 9) but none are skin sensitizers. In the absence of a polymerizable vinyl polymer, tetramethylsuccinonitrile [3333-52-6] (TMSN) is the principal decomposition product of Vazo 64. TMSN is highly toxic orally (rat oral LD50 of 39 mg/kg) and by inhalation (29). OSHA regulations require that an employee s exposure to TMSN in any 8-h shift does not exceed an 8-h time-weighted average of 0.5 ppm in air (=3 mg/m3). Because both TMSN solid and vapor are capable of penetrating the skin and mucous membranes, control of vapor inhalation alone may not be sufficient to prevent absorption of an excessive dose. 

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