FDR Safety

MAY 13, 2024

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. A feasibility assessment usually takes less than an hour.

Feasibility 156

Feasibility Employment Deals OSHA 156

FDR Safety

MAY 13, 2024

Maybe there was an injury, and you added a guard, but the guard made it difficult or impossible to unjam the equipment or operate the machine. Finding safeguards for a specific task is challenging because a physical guard may not be feasible. A feasibility assessment usually takes less than an hour.

Drafting 156

Drafting Feasibility OSHA Risk 156

FDR Safety

JANUARY 9, 2018

I’m finding clients who have excellent lockout/tagout programs but who have not taken the necessary step of identifying tasks where LOTO is not feasible. The OSH Review Commission has ruled that tasks like set-up of a machine are not part of production; hence LOTO is required. Your only recourse is to prove LOTO is not feasible.

Feasibility 198

Feasibility Risk OSHA Commissioning 198

FDR Safety

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Examples of such impacts are: •impeding efficient and effective equipment designs when tasks (e.g., The term “zero energy” is not the same as the control of hazardous energy, and is not found in any OSHA regulations or materials or in U.S. national consensus standards (e.g.,

Design 156

Design OSHA Feasibility Regulation 156

FDR Safety

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

A decision by the Occupational Safety Health and Review Commission offers importance guidance to all industries, particularly stamping, about when OSHA’s lockout/tagout regulations should be applied and when not. This decision is important for all industry. The post Important LOTO Ruling for Die Changes appeared first on FDRsafety.

Commissioning 120

Commissioning Ohio Injury OSHA 120

FDR Safety

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

If there is an OSHA citation most likely to be overturned on appeal to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission it would be one issued under the General Duty clause. There was a feasible and useful method to correct the hazard. General Duty citations from OSHA may not hold up. By Jim Stanley. President, FDRsafety.

OSHA 120

OSHA Safety Employment Commissioning 120

FDR Safety

APRIL 11, 2016

However, the requirement is made realistic by its application only to situations where there are ‘recognized hazards’ which are likely to cause or are causing serious injury or death. On March 17, 2015, Administrative Law Judge John Gatto of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission issued his Decision in the matter of Perez v.

OSHA 120

OSHA Injury Inspections Safety 120