Employers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas targeted by OSHA with on-site inspections and evaluations. Fifty-seven percent of the reported workplace amputations in 2015 occurred in the manufacturing industry, leading OSHA to launch an enforcement initiative in four U.S. states. The agency announced a “heightened focus” on amputation hazards in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas,
Read more →University of Texas researchers examine construction accidents in the Persian Gulf region. A new study published in the journal Applied Ergonomics examined construction safety in the Arabian Gulf region. A sample of 519 incidents and interviews with safety experts was completed in the region which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
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Read more →The study did find that scavenging systems are widely used, however.
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