On June 7, while driving through Madison, Wis., Compliance Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) Chad Greenwood of OSHA’s Madison area office observed work being performed at an excavation site. The CSHO saw a potentially unsafe trench and stopped to initiate an inspection. When the trench conditions were closely examined, the trench was found to be [...]

    OSHA recently issued its explanation of “on site in one location” in the “Application” section of the Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals standard. This interpretation simply means that the standard applies when a threshold quantity of a highly hazardous chemical (HHC) exists within an area under the control of an employer or group [...]

    OSHA recently published a new directive on implementing a National Emphasis Program to help reduce or eliminate workplace hazards associated with the release of highly hazardous chemicals at petroleum refineries. The instruction provides guidance to OSHA national, regional and area offices, and to those state programs which choose to implement a similar program. OSHA’s Process [...]