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OSHA's Safety Tests Protect Workers at Little Cost: Study
MSN Health & Fitness
Comparing worker safety and corporate bottom lines in high-hazard industries, the researchers sought evidence to back charges that OSHA kills jobs, he said. They wanted to know if OSHA inspections were so disruptive or costly that they affected sales ...
Safety inspections don't hurt businesses-studyReuters
Study: Safety inspections don't hurt profitsBoston.com

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Working Knowledge

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
Working Knowledge
Few regulatory agencies have a more direct effect on businesses than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the federal agency responsible for enforcing regulations to keep workplaces healthy and accident-free.
Pike builders group offers safety coursePocono Record
Worker Death Leads to $473K Fine for Illinois ManufacturerInsurance Journal
Workplace safety checks, profit loss not linkedAppleton Post Crescent
Occupational Health and Safety -Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
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PR Web (press release)

OSHA Floor Markings Standards Guide Available For Free By SafetyTac.com
PR Web (press release)
SafetyTac.com, a leading provider of industrial floor tape products, is giving away a OSHA floor markings standards guide, based on the rules of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and American National Standards Institute, at no cost.

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PR Web (press release)

MAU Offers OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Course June 26-27, 2012; Register Now
PR Web (press release)
MAU Workforce Solutions will be hosting an OSHA 10 Hour General Industry Outreach Training Course June 26-27, 2012 at the Marion Hatcher Center in Augusta, GA. The 10-hour program is ideal for supervisors with safety and health responsibilities, ...

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Mother Jones

"I Always Knew Somebody Would Get Killed Inside That Place"
Mother Jones
In the Revetta case, the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) failed to issue even a minor citation to US Steel, the world's 12th-largest steelmaker and an economic leviathan in western Pennsylvania.

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Food Poisoning Bulletin

OSHA's Safety Tests Protect Workers at Little Cost: Study
Health.com
Comparing worker safety and corporate bottom lines in high-hazard industries, the researchers sought evidence to back charges that OSHA kills jobs, he said. They wanted to know if OSHA inspections were so disruptive or costly that they affected sales ...
US Department of Labor's OSHA Establishes Whistleblower Protection Advisory ...Food Poisoning Bulletin
OSHA forms whistleblower protection advisory committeeLegal News Line
Study: Safety Inspections Don't Hurt BusinessesClaimsJournal.com
Phys.Org -The Courier-Journal -CBS Local
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Cal-OSHA cites company over rail car propane fire
Sacramento Bee
By Cathy Locke The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health alleges that an employee and a rail car tanker involved in a propane tanker fire in August were not properly grounded or bonded to prevent the accumulation of static electricity ...
ADVICE: Injury prevention program is a cure for employee safety hazardsPress-Enterprise

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OSHA: Euless printer clueless about safety
Business Management Daily
by The HR Specialist: Texas Employment Law on May 20, 2012 1:00am Printing company SpeQtrum Prepress Production Services faces 14 serious safety and health violations and one other-than-serious violation following an OSHA inspection of its facility in ...

$600000 OSHA settlement in Bostik plant blast
BusinessWeek
The Labor Department says it has reached a $600000 settlement with adhesives manufacturer Bostik Inc., over workplace safety citations related to a March 2011 explosion at its plant north of Boston. Four workers had nonlife-threatening injuries.
Bostik Settles with OSHA Over Plant Explosion Incidentwoodworkingnetwork.com

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Cianbro's attention to safety impresses OSHA representatives
Bangor Daily News
Buy Photo By Andrew Neff, BDN Staff It resulted in a $200 fine assessed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to Sitewerx Inc., a subcontractor from Hermon, last December. “In all, we've had three violations, all minor, ...

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