Published: March 4, 2010
Tags: All About Windows & Siding, enforcement, EPA, inspector, Kuehl, lead, lead paint, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, remediation, rules, Shelley Bruce, Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
A contractor who intends to comply with new lead paint standards worries the state lacks the manpower to enforce the rules.
If Robert Kuehl, president of All About Windows & Siding Inc., West Allis, follows the rules and his competitors don’t, he said, he could lose work because compliance costs money. If he has [...]
Published: February 16, 2010
Tags: Galland Henning Nopak, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha
WEST MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — A 57-year-old worker at a West Milwaukee manufacturer is dead after a piece of sheet metal fell on top of him.
The accident happened about 11 a.m. Tuesday at Galland Henning Nopak Inc., which manufactures pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders and valves, and scrap recycling equipment.
The man’s name has not been released. [...]
Published: February 1, 2010
Tags: budget, construction fatalities, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, Solis
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Monday requested $573 million for fiscal 2011, a $14.5 million increase over the agency’s 2010 budget.
The increase would let OSHA add 60 investigators and enforcement staff members in 2011, for a total enforcement staff of 1,752 people.
The budget continues to make construction a targeted industry, with an estimated [...]
Published: January 29, 2010
Tags: Associated General Contractors of Greater Milwaukee, Building Service Inc., Burazin, Emmerich, Mortenson, Mortenson Construction, Niffenegger, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, R&R Insurance Services, Safe-Con LLC, Stehno
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
The young guys on his carpentry crew pay more attention to stretching exercises after they hear John Niffenegger’s back crack when he gets off his knees during a flooring job.
Niffenegger, who worked in a lumberyard carrying concrete bags and timbers before starting a 25-year construction career, is a carpenter foreman with Building Service [...]
Published: January 22, 2010
Tags: Assembly Committee on Labor, Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Inc., iron workers, Iron Workers Local 8, ironworkers, Jorgensen, journeyman, master, Mielke, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, safety, state licensure, Teska, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Department of Commerce
By Paul Snyder
Backers of a bill requiring ironworkers to be licensed in Wisconsin say safety is at the core of their effort. But they lack evidence showing that the ironworkers or the public would be safer with state licensure.
Nationally, data show accidents among ironworkers declined during a recent five-year period despite more people working in [...]
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Soon after she became the nation’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis warned corporate America there was “a new sheriff in town.”
Less than a year into her tenure, that figurative badge of authority is unmistakable. Her aggressive moves to boost enforcement and crack down on businesses that violate workplace safety [...]
Washington (AP) — Congressional investigators say the agency in charge of workplace safety needs to do a better job of making sure employers keep accurate records on worker injuries and illnesses.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is supposed to audit employer records in the most hazardous industries to keep tabs on accident and illness rates.
But [...]
Published: November 9, 2009
Tags: Associated General Contractors Oregon-Columbia chapter, fall protection, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, scaffolding
By Justin Carinci
Dolan Media Newswires
Portland, Ore. — Recently released federal and state safety data show that fall protection remains a top concern. According to preliminary federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration data for the 12 months ending Sept. 30, fall protection had the second-highest number of violations.
The previous year, fall protection ranked third, behind hazard [...]
Published: July 1, 2009
Tags: asbestos, Carlson Racine Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc., F.J.A. Christiansen Roofing Co. Inc., Occupational Safety and Health Administration, osha, roofing, training, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Wisconsin Roofing Contractors Association Inc.
Sean Ryan
sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com
Wisconsin roofing contractors are bristling over the potential costs of retraining their workers to meet state asbestos requirements without proof the requirements will improve safety.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services distributed a memo that interprets the laws requiring training for workers on roofing projects with asbestos shingles. Previously, workers using machines that cut and [...]
