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John Astad

CyberRegs | OSHA Combustible Dust Rulemaking - 0 views

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    With constant changes in Federal, State and International regulations governing the protection of the environment, public health & safety, and transportation of hazardous materials, making sure your organization is in full regulatory compliance can be a demanding task. Are you up-to-date on the OSHA Combustible Dust Rulemaking?
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    Keep up-to-date with the OSHA Combustible Dust Rulemaking
John Astad

CSB to Begin Chemical Release Reporting Rulemaking -- Occupational Health & Safety - 0 views

  • CSB asking for comments by Aug. 4 on how it should write a regulation
  • CSB was charged with writing such a regulation in its original enabling law but never undertook the task.
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      The enabling law gives CSB the authorization to write regulations.
  • high-consequences events (for example, incidents that result in death, serious injuries requiring in-patient hospitalization, large public evacuations, very substantial property damage, or acute environmental impact)
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      High Consequence Events
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  • combustible dust explosions
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      Interesting, combustible dust explosions.
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    CSB,Rulemaking," incident reporting" combustible dust incidents
John Astad

U.S. letting manufacturing slip away | detnews.com | The Detroit News - 0 views

  • Countries -- China, India, Russia, Brazil -- are no different. They understand the value of making things and selling them to others, the contribution competitive manufacturing makes to stability, economic growth and innovation.
  • But she was short -- indeed, silent in her opening remarks -- on tax, regulatory and other government-assessed burdens weighing on business, partly explaining why the Big Mitten has lost so many of the jobs she rightly lamented.
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    Great article. The economic aspect of manufacturing needs to be addressed in the OSHA ComDust rulemaking
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    Great article. The economic aspect of manufacturing needs to be addressed in the OSHA ComDust rulemaking
John Astad

GAO Report:Chemical Safety Board: Improvements in Management and Oversight Are Needed - 0 views

  • data quality problems
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      Definitely data quality problems. Especially combustible dust incidents in the CSB Dust hazard Study
  • work of other entities, s
  • address the investigative gap
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  • improving the quality of its accident data,
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    Reading this GAO report the reader can now understand why the CSB Dust Hazard Study is incomplete and does not fully address trends where combustible dust related fires and explosions are occurring throughout industry. Incomplete data should not have been used as the basis of the OSHA Dust NEP and now the OSHA rulemaking process.
John Astad

2009 - 04/29/2009 - U.S. Department of Labor's OSHA announces rulemaking on combustible... - 0 views

  • Since 1980, more than 130 workers have been killed and more than 780 injured in combustible dust explosions
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