Plant closures will hit Doraville, GA, Oklahoma City, and Lansing, MI. This is in addition to closures that took place earlier this year in Linden, NJ, Baltimore, and at another plant in Lansing.
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Plant closures will hit Doraville, GA, Oklahoma City, and Lansing, MI. This is in addition to closures that took place earlier this year in Linden, NJ, Baltimore, and at another plant in Lansing. For the full report from Reuters, click here. ANSWERS: The violations are given along with the regulation numbers that address them. Workplace is a mess: 1910.22(a)(1) Rats: 1910.141(a)(5) LP forklift used in EE rated area (see sign): 1910.178(c)(2)(iv) Propane tank lying on the floor: 1910.178(f)(2), 1910.110(f)(2)(i), 1910.110(f)(2)(ii)Worker standing on the forks: 1910.178(m)(3) Operator has dismounted the forklift without lowering the forks: 1910.178(m)(5)(iii) Exit blocked: 1910.178(m)(14), 1910.37(a)(3)Loose objects in the aisle: 1910.178(n)(14) Transmission oil leak: 1910.178(p)(3), 1910.22(a)(2)Propane leak: 1910.178(p)(4) Headlight hanging down: 1910.178(h)(2), 1910.178(q)(1)Extension cord on the floor: 1910.305(g)(1)(iii)(A), 1910.305(g)(2)(ii) If you scored poorly on this quiz, you may want to revisit your knowledge of OSHA guidelines. Continue reading Answers to last Friday’s OSHA violation quiz U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 laptop Nov. 16 at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis, Tunisia. Annan was joined by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the Media Lab at MIT, in presenting the laptop to the gathering. The $100 laptop, first announced by Negroponte at the World Economic Forum in January 2005, is an ultra-low-cost, full-featured computer designed to enhance children’s primary and secondary education worldwide. It is a joint project of the Media Lab and the nonprofit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association, which aims to equip Continue reading Look out education FMs: MIT presents the $100 laptop The safety professionals at MANCOMM created this picture through extensive Photoshop retouching, so no workers or animals were actually endangered. In the picture, how many Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) safety violations can you spot? Some of the violations are fairly obvious, but some will require a keen knowledge of OSHA regulations. Consider yourself well-versed in OSHA matters if you can spot at least 10 violations – more are listed in the answers. Give yourself a pat on the back if you can quote the regulation number or numbers that address each violation. Answers will be Continue reading Friday Funny: Spot the OSHA Violations Interesting article in USA Today. |
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