Keeping you up to date on a recent OSHA final rule clarifying employers’ potential violations when required PPE and training are not provided:
 
Employers may be cited on a "per instance" basis if they fail to provide personal protective equipment or training as required to each employee covered under a workplace safety or health standard, OSHA recently declared in a final rule.
 
Effective Jan. 12th, the rule amends the general industry safety and health standards to include two introductory provisions stating that PPE and training, where required, must be provided to every employee covered by the requirement, and that failure to do so "may be considered a separate violation" for each employee. Certain other standards, including respiratory protection and bloodborne pathogens, also were amended to clarify that such provisions apply to each covered employee.
 
OSHA said the rule changes don’t represent new requirements; rather, they represent a clarification of existing ones.
 
Hellman & Associates is available to answer your questions regarding this notification and please consider us as your partner to a safer workplace!
 
 
 
I count on Hellman & Associates to be our environmental health & safety experts and they have earned that reputation.  They have demonstrated that they have our best interests in mind and even guarantee compliance with OSHA should an issue arise.  What pleases us most is the consistency and the trusted relationship we have built with them.  They are our safety partners in the best sense of the word.
                        - Gregg Smith, Director of Operations
                        Promotech