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Working Safely Near Overhead Power Lines Working with or near power lines can expose workers to electrical hazards, but these dangers can be avoid...

Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders in Nursing Homes Nurses and other healthcare workers face many safety and health hazards in their work environ...

Filling, Moving and Placing Sandbags During Flooding Disasters Manually filling, moving and placing sandbags is physically demanding work. It invo...

Search and Rescue Operations Following a catastrophe, rescue workers and emergency responders are the first to arrive on the scene, often in unfam...

Respiratory Infection Control: Respirators Versus Surgical MasksIt is important that employers and workers understand the significant differences b...

Updates to OSHA’s Recordkeeping Rule: Reporting Fatalities and Severe Injuries OSHA’s updated recordkeeping rule expands the list of severe injurie...

What does the OSHA standard, Process Safety Management (PSM) of Highly Hazardous Chemicals, cover? This standard contains requirements for the saf...

PPE for Emergency Response and Recovery Workers When an emergency event occurs or a disaster strikes, first responders and recovery workers are oft...

Who is protected by OSHA’s powered platforms standard?Thousands of window washers and building maintenance workers in the United States, who mostly...

Laboratory Safety Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories standard (29 CFR 1910.1450), refer...

What are medical catheters?Medical catheters are tubes used in healthcare to deliver intravenous fluids and medications or to drain body fluids. Ex...

VPP Corporate Pilot The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) created the Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Corporate Pilot to a...

Rescue of Animals (Dogs) by Disaster Relief PersonnelOnly trained personnel experienced in animal behavior should attempt to rescue animals. Before...

Laboratory Safety: Cryogens and Dry Ice Cryogens are substances used to produce very low temperatures [below -153°C (-243°F)], such as liquid nitro...

Lyme Disease FactsOSHA has published a hazard information bulletin (HIB) to provide guidance to people who reside in high or moderate risk areas in...

Working Outdoors in Warm Climates Hot summer months pose special hazards for outdoor workers who must protect themselves against heat, sun exposure...

Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)Hydrogen sulfide is a colorless, flammable, extremely hazardous gas with a “rotten egg” smell. Some common names for the gas ...

This OSHA fact sheet provides prevention tips for tree care hazard risk factors such as: Traffic control Drop zones Wood chippers Aerial lifts Pow...

Safety Practices Once Tractor Trailer Drivers Arrive at a Destination Safety is just as important once a truck reaches a destination as when it is ...

Preventing Violence against Taxi and For-Hire DriversTaxi drivers are over 20 times more likely to be murdered on the job than otherworkers. By rec...

BRIEF INCIDENT DESCRIPTIONA temporary worker died while removing the coating from a bathtub in a residential building. The worker was alone in a sm...

Protecting Workers from Mercury Exposure While Crushing and Recycling Fluorescent BulbsThis fact sheet assists employers and workers in understandi...

Laboratory Safety NoiseThis guidance is advisory in nature and informational in content. It is not a standard or a regulation, and it neither creat...

Hispanic OutreachOSHA has made immigrant workplace safety a priority within the agency and iscommitted to identifying ways to improve the safety an...

The National Fire Protection Association defines “high-rise building” as a building greater than 75 feet (25 m) in height where the building height...

What Is Work-Related Asthma? Work-related asthma is a lung disease caused or made worse by exposures to substances in the workplace. Common exposur...

OSHA Alert Indoor air quality in the workplace during cold weather is especially critical while influenza, cold, and COVID-19 viruses are circulati...

Employees are protected from retaliation for raising workplace health and safety concerns relating to COVID-19, reporting cases of the illness to t...

The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a directive rescinding the Interim Fall Pr...

Bloodborne pathogens are infectious microorganisms present in blood that can cause disease in humans. These pathogens include, but are not limited...

Fact Sheet Employees who work for publicly traded companies or companies that are required to file certain reports with the Securities and Exchang...

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of the Affordable Care Act’s health coverage reforms (Titl...

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations regarding the discharge of pollutants from a point source ...

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations regarding air emissions from area, stationary, and mobile ...

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees who work for entities engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, transporting, distribution, reception, holding, or ...

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations of environmental laws and regulations related to the dispo...