OSHA Training to Curb Preventable Workplace Accidents
Posted:
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Category:
OSHA and Safety
Entirely preventable. That’s perhaps what everyone and his uncle are thinking now after the unfortunate death of a worker in April in a tunneling operation in Webster, New York for the Eastside Water Supply Project.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported early this month that Texas-based Southland Contracting Inc. was tunneling when a fuse blew after a welding equipment was plugged into the wrong circuit. In the darkness, an employee operating a tunnel locomotive received fatal head trauma after crashing into a conveyor.
The OSHA investigation revealed several dangerous lapses, including the one that directly caused the accident: an important piece of equipment had not been inspected after modifications and repairs had been made to it —the locomotive involved in the accident lacked bumper blocks to stop it from crashing.
Southland was cited for seven violations, six of them, serious. OSHA explained that a serious violation is one that has a high probability of causing death or serious physical harm if it remains ignored or uncorrected.
Pre-empting accidents in the workplace by having a workforce that’s knowledgeable in recognizing and mitigating unnecessary, preventable work hazards is OSHA’s mission—and OSHAcampus.com’s goal, too. OSHAcampus.com is a premier provider of online OSHA 10 training and online OSHA 30 course program. OSHA 10 teaches entry-level workers to recognize, mitigate, and prevent hazards in the workplace. OSHA 30 orients safety directors, foremen, and field supervisors in all OSHA compliance issues.
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