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New OSHA Training Emphasizes Workers’ Rights
“Introduction to OSHA” is a new training module that emphasizes workers’ rights. Now don’t shoot the messenger, but it’s required content in every OSHA 10- and 30-hr. Outreach Training Program. The new program focuses on the importance of workers’ rights, specifically to:
• Safe and healthful workplaces;
• Knowledge of the presence and effects of hazardous chem- icals;
• Review information about injuries and illnesses in their workplaces;
• Receive training;
• Request/file for an OSHA inspection and participate in the inspection; and
• Be free from retaliation for exercising their safety-and-health rights.
“For too long workers have avoided making claims of unsafe work condi-
tions out of fear of
losing their jobs,”
says Assistant Sec-
retary of Labor for
OSHA David Michaels. “We are confident that this new train- ing will embolden workers to speak up when they find work prac- tices that endanger their lives and the lives of their coworkers.”
The OSHA Outreach Training Program is a voluntary program that seeks to teach workers about their rights and how to iden- tify, reduce, avoid and prevent job-related hazards. The program includes courses in construction, general or maritime industry safety and health hazard recognition and prevention that is taught through a network of OSHA-authorized trainers.
For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
Modular Guard Rail
a Robust Visual Barrier
As manufacturers look to implement lean-manufacturing work- cell-based process- es, they often need to separate work- spaces to prevent cross-product mix- ing and ensure effi- cient, automated operations. Appli- cations like these call for Steel King’s Armor Guard indus- trial safety railing, fabricated from corrugated 11-gauge high- strength steel. The safety railing is modular and comes in 1- to 10-ft. lengths in 1-ft. increments. Universal posts have con-
nection holes on three sides instead of the industry-typical one or two sides, which quickens installation and customization. Fold-over edges along the guard rail eliminate dangerous sharp surfaces.
Use the railing to separate areas like work stations and walk- ways from lift-truck traffic in warehouses, shipping areas and production floors.
Steel King: 800/826-0203; www.steelking.com
Catalog: Safeguarding Cutting and Turning Machines
Rockford Systems, Inc., Rock- ford, IL, has put together an 84-pg. color catalog that pulls together a bevy of information, photos and specifications for its complete lineup of safety shields and related equipment for use in the toolroom, includ- ing a new line of electrically interlocked heavy-duty safety shields. Use the shields and related equipment to protect employees operating and work-
ing near drill presses, lathes, milling machines, bench grinders, disc/belt sanders and band and table saws. Also available are disconnects and motor starters, flexible-arm lamps, and all-pur- pose shields such as adjustable side shields, universal ball- and-socket shields, on-off magnetic-base shields and rigid-arm magnetic-base shields.
Rockford Systems, Inc.: 815/874-7891; www.rockfordsystems.com
New Website a Focal Point for Dust-Collection Info
Donaldson Torit,
Minneapolis, MN, has
launched a new web-
site dedicated to its
PowerCore CP- and
TG-Series dust col-
lectors. Current and
prospective customers
can learn how the
units work, read case
studies, contact sales
and service and view
answers to frequently
asked questions.
Donaldson Torit: www.donaldson.com/toritpowercore
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