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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

OSHA Fact SheetEmployees are protected from retaliation for reporting alleged violations ofenvironmental laws and regulations related to industrial...