In one of his last acts as OSHA Administrator, Charles Jeffress,\r\nsigned an agreement Friday with ANSI to\r\nimprove international safety and health standards. In one of his last acts as OSHA ...

In the beginning was the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA). To improve worker safety, OSHA adopted several regulations concerning the use of emergency eyewash and shower stations. OSHA's ...

The roots of material safety data sheets (MSDS) can be traced to prehistoric times, when information about materials used in medicines and dyes was exchanged verbally. The first written MSDS were ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has been recognized as an approved accreditor of crane operator certification programs by the ...

People in construction know OSHA as the ultimate authority on safety - so what is all this news about new ANSI standards? Industry experts explain why industry regulatory standards are relevant and ...

In part one of this two-part series on code-compliant electrical equipment labeling, we recognized that OSHA is moving toward more citations, greater penalties, and more frequent inspections. We also ...

Do you know what it takes to stay safe when using PATs? For most contractors today, powder-actuated tools (PATs) are a way of life. By eliminating the need to drill holes with a concrete drill bit or ...

The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. and American National Standards Institute have revised two standards and extruders and vertical injection molding presses, and issued a new standard for blow ...

Safe planning begins with a site-specific risk assessment. A club, an amphitheater and a stadium all behave differently.