Three new safety publications available from OSHA

by jbs112408b3 — November 28, 2008—The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) latest Safety and Health Information Bulletins (SHIBs) highlight specific workplace hazards and ways to minimize the potential for serious or fatal injuries.

The SHIB on Compactor Rollover Hazards addresses rollover hazards when operating roller/compactor machines and the use of rollover protective structures and seatbelts to reduce the risk.

Hazards of Transporting, Unloading, Storing and Handling Granite, Marble and Stone Slabs describes ways to reduce crushed-by, caught-by, or struck-by hazards associated with these potentially dangerous tasks of unloading stone slabs from containers, storing them in “slab-racking” systems, moving and handling stone slabs with equipment, and loading stone slabs onto trucks.

Hazards of Using Flammable Liquids in Cutting Laminated Glass offers safer alternative methods for cutting laminated glass, and recommendations for safe work practices to accomplish this goal.