Workplaces have undergone significant transformations in the 21st century. But you wouldn’t know if you looked at the violations the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issues. In ...

Fall Protection continues to top OSHA’s list of the top 10 most frequently cited workplace standards, coming in at number one in 2023 for the 13th year in a row. OSHA 1926.501 addresses Fall ...

Honeywell’s Miller Fall Protection is celebrating their 80th anniversary this year. Join the Miller Fall Protection experts as they cover the evolution of recent fall protection standards and take a ...

New FallTech white paper explains why Class 1 and 2 SRL distinctions affect electric utility work conditions. Updates to the American National Standards Institute's self-retracting lifeline (SRL) ...

Since its creation in 1971, OSHA has made a huge difference in worker safety but not directly. OSHA doesn’t come on site and show people how to work safely. So, what does OSHA do? Among other things, ...

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has approved two American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) standards addressing fall protection. The new Z359.14 standard establishes requirements ...

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 ...

No matter how agile you are, a fall can happen. Your foot slips on some lubricant that wasn’t supposed to be there, a load shifts, a guard rail wasn’t properly secured, or you were off balance for ...

Largely, the standards most applicable for fall protection in the U.S. have had minimal performance changes over the past 5 years. The most current is the new ANSI/ASSP Z359.14-2021 document that ...

Approximately 300,000 disabling injuries occur in work-related falls each year. 85% of workers surviving falls lose time from their jobs. This poses a serious problem for exposed workers and their ...

While grain and feed employers have a relatively clear idea of what OSHA expects them to do when entering bins, maintaining equipment, and preventing the accumulation of fugitive dust because those ...