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News Release from: Compsolve | Subject: OSHA compliance provider
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 March 2007
Providing a safe and healthful workplace
Compsolve certifying the manufacturing industry nationwide.
Compsolve, the leading OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) compliance provider, is assisting employers within the Manufacturing Industry to provide a safe and healthful workplace environment for their employees by creating customized programmes tailored to plastics manufacturing, thus assisting you to be OSHA compliant while keeping you fine-free Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 10 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Companies with as little as one employee are targets of OSHA today.
In an effort to comply with regulatory safety issues Compsolve works with these employers to provide them with information, guidance and the necessary training tools to eliminate machinery hazards that can cause accidents such as burns, lacerations, amputations and even death.
The manufacturing industry has among the highest injury and illness rates according to OSHA.
Employees are working with fast-moving machinery, hazardous chemicals and razor-sharp slicers, and other dangerous tools.
According to OSHA regulations, the majority of fines in the manufacturing industry come from lack of hazard communication programs, respiratory protection programs, abrasive wheel machinery regulations and occupational noise exposure.
Compsolve can provide all the elements for compliance including all necessary certifications, training for employees, and materials which include lock-out/tag-out plans and devices, hearing conservation programs, personal protective equipment which involves hazard assessments, forklift safety programs, chemical safety programs including a written plan, fire safety and evacuation, and lastly respiratory safety.
"Every year more manufacturers are becoming the target for OSHA inspections and every year the fines are enough for small businesses to close their doors," says Steve Goldstein president and CEO for Compsolve.
According to OSHA's website, The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) plans to conduct nearly 36,500 federal inspections and 54,500 state inspections during the fiscal year of 2007 with an emphasis on high hazard industries.
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