Several business groups, including the National Association of Manufacturers, have filed a lawsuit challenging OSHA’s per-employee penalty policy for safety gear violations.

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Tags: lawsuit, National Association of Manufacturers, per-employee violation, PPE, safety gear

OSHA has started to update its regulations to match national consensus standards.

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Tags: ANSI standards, consensus standards, eye face head foot protection, PPE regulations

Once OSHA finds significant safety violations at one facility, it’s likely to go after other locations owned by the same company.

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Tags: fast moving machinery, OSHA fines, Sims Bark, Sims Stone, struck by equipment

Looking for another scary example to drive home your safety message? Two window washers in Long Beach, CA, were rescued from a partially collapsed scaffold. A TV station caught one worker’s rescue on video.

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Tags: collapsed scaffold, safety harness, window washer rescued

New regulations; accidents with multiple fatalities; the President-elect’s take on what OSHA should be doing. What is the top safety story of 2008?

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Tags: new regulations, Obama, OSHA, top 10

A new federal court ruling further complicates whether you have to pay employees for the time they spend putting on and taking off safety gear. This recent ruling is a split decision for employers.

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Tags: court decision, donning and doffing safety gear, safety gear

A new federal court ruling further complicates whether you have to pay employees for the time they spend putting on and taking off safety gear. This recent ruling is a split decision for employers.

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Tags: donning and doffing PPE, pay for donning and doffing, putting on and taking off PPE

Ever wish you could have someone translate an OSHA standard into plain English? You’re not alone.

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Tags: OSHA FAQs, OSHA standards, powered industrial trucks

UCLA has paid $31,875 in fines and taken corrective steps after a lab fire that claimed the life of an employee. But now, the university wants to appeal the citation for a technical reason.

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Tags: Cal-OSHA fine, Sheri Sangji, UCLA fatal fire

Uvex Stealth® Goggle Family Now Includes
New Over-the-Glass Model

Number One Selling Premium Safety Goggle Now Available with Option for Workers Who Wear Prescription Eyewear

Offered with an Expanded Range of Lens Tints

Smithfield, RI – May 20, 2009 - Sperian Eye & Face Protection, the makers of Uvex® brand safety eyewear, is pleased to announce the newest addition to its Uvex Stealth goggle family: the Uvex Stealth OTG.

Uvex Stealth OTG goggles protect against impact, dust and airborne particles, chemical splash, and optical radiation while offering the highest levels of comfort and performance.  Designed to fit comfortably over prescription eyewear, Uvex Stealth OTG goggles are larger than the original Uvex Stealth model while retaining the sleek styling that has made this goggle an industry favorite.

Its flexible, high quality elastomer body conforms to facial contours for a secure yet comfortable gap-free fit, while its low-profile, wrap-around lens styling provides complete coverage and a clear field of vision.  With pivoting headband clips and a wide adjustable-slide headband, Uvex Stealth OTG goggles offer a wide range of adjustability and fit comfortably even with hard hats.

For protection in a variety of environments, lenses are available in Clear, Amber, Standard Gray, and Shade 3.0 and 5.0 Welding tints with Dura-streme^TM dual coating technology.  Dura-streme combines our two best lens coatings – Uvextreme® anti-fog on the interior and Ultra-dura® anti-scratch on the exterior – for long-lasting, durable anti-fog performance and added chemical resistance.  Uvex Stealth OTG goggles offer an easy and economical lens replacement system.  Lenses easily snap onto the front of the body, allowing for the use of multiple lens tints and extending the life of the goggles for exceptional total-cost-of-ownership.

Uvex Stealth OTG goggles are made in the USA in an ISO 9001:2000 facility, and are certified to meet both ANSI Z87.1-2003 (High Impact) and CSA Z94.3 standards.

About Uvex by Sperian

Uvex by Sperian is the leading U.S. brand of premium quality, state-of-the-art, feature-rich safety spectacles, goggles and face shields that offers comfort and innovation without compromise. The world’s top-selling protective eyewear brand, Uvex® has been an acknowledged leader in safety eyewear innovation for more than 50 years and is the pioneer of many groundbreaking innovations such as Dura-streme^TM Dual Coating Technology offering combined Anti-fog / Anti-Scratch lenses with 3x longer life, a cost-effective silicone goggle body and MMT – Multi-Material Technology®. Sperian Protection offers Uvex branded safety eyewear and face protection products exclusively in the Americas. For more information, please visit www.uvex.us.

About Sperian Protection

With nearly 6,000 employees worldwide, Sperian Protection serves the global personal protective equipment (PPE) industry, providing hearing, eye, respiratory, fall, body and hand protection. As a world leader in multiple PPE categories, Sperian is committed to offering innovative products adapted to high-risk environments so that workers in the manufacturing and services industries can work with confidence. For more information, please visit www.sperianprotection.com.

Sperian Protection is listed on Euronext’s Eurolist and on the SBF120. It is eligible for the SRD deferred settlement system.

For additional Uvex product information contact:

Sperian Customer Care

900 Douglas Pike

Smithfield, RI 02917

Tel: 800-682-0839

Fax: 800-322-1330

www.uvex.us

Tags: eye safety, PPE, safety goggles

The owner and a manager of a roofing company in Santa Rosa, CA, will both go to jail after a pair of incidents involving employee falls through skylights. One employee died, the other was permanently disabled.

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Tags: fall protection, falls through skylights, permanently disabled

As someone in charge of safety and health at your workplace, here’s what you need to know about the swine flu outbreak:

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Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, facemask and respirator recommendations, swine flu

Educational Resources for Understanding Safety Eyewear Regulations Available on the Uvex^® Website

Reference Guides Support Efforts to Build a Culture of Safety in the Workplace

Smithfield, RI – April 7 2009 - Sperian Eye & Face Protection has developed a series of reference guides for understanding protective eyewear regulations. Available online at www.uvex.us, these new reference guides are designed to provide safety managers with the educational tools they need to build a culture of safety in the workplace.

“Our customers look to us not only as a trusted brand of safety eyewear products, but also as a resource and partner in their safety efforts,” said David Iannelli, Senior Product Manager, Uvex brand products. “We’ve created these reference guides to provide customers with useful information that supports their efforts to develop effective safety programs within their organizations.”

Three reference guides are currently available on the Uvex website. These reference guides address the U.S. Department of Defense Mil V₀ Ballistic Test for Impact and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) regulations for eye and face protection as well as general personal protective equipment. Each of the guides provides useful industry information and delivers the content in three formats in increasing levels of detail. This format makes it simple for users on every level-from distributors to safety professionals-to focus on the specific information they require.

About Uvex by Sperian

Uvex by Sperian is the leading U.S. brand of premium quality, state-of-the-art, feature-rich safety spectacles, goggles and face shields that offer comfort and innovation without compromise. The world’s top-selling protective eyewear brand, Uvex® has been an acknowledged leader in safety eyewear innovation for more than 50 years and is the pioneer of many groundbreaking innovations such as Dura-streme^TM Dual Coating Technology offering combined Anti-fog / Anti-Scratch lenses with 3x longer life, a cost-effective silicone goggle body and MMT-Multi-Material Technology®. Sperian Protection offers Uvex branded safety eyewear and face protection products exclusively in the Americas. For more information, please visit www.uvex.us.

About Sperian Protection

With nearly 6,000 employees worldwide, Sperian Protection serves the global personal protective equipment (PPE) industry, providing hearing, eye, respiratory, fall, body and hand protection. As a world leader in multiple PPE categories, Sperian is committed to offering innovative products adapted to high-risk environments so that workers in the manufacturing and services industries can work with confidence. For more information, please visit www.sperianprotection.com.

Sperian Protection is listed on Euronext’s Eurolist and on the SBF120. It is eligible for the SRD deferred settlement system.

Tags: safety eyewear, Sperian Eye & Face Protection, Uvex

Five online videos produced by the Ontario, Canada Workplace Safety and Insurance Board emphasize that “there really are no accidents.”

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Tags: gory videos, no accidents, safety videos

Once again, a federal court has taken up the question of whether employers have to pay workers for their time spent putting on and taking off safety gear. In this case, the employer has lost the initial round in court.

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Tags: donning and doffing, Fair Labor Standards Act, PPE

As of Jan. 12, 2009, OSHA can issue per-employee citations for personal protective equipment and training violations. Now we have an example of how the agency, under the Obama administration, plans to use its new, powerful weapon.

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Tags: chemical contamination, eyewash, hazardous chemicals, per-employee violation, PPE

As a safety pro, you’ve probably heard this claim: Once you get on OSHA’s inspection list, it’s tough to get off of it. A Midwest company can attest to that.

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Tags: carbon monoxide, fall protection, inspected, OSHA, violations

It took exactly one day for OSHA under the new Obama administration to move forward on two proposed regulations.

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Tags: diacetyl, face masks, fit testing, respirators

Here’s another example of why companies want to have clean OSHA records: Once an employer gets on the agency’s hit list, additional violations will be even more costly.

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Tags: fall protection, OSHA violation, repeat citation

The President of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) says he’s concerned about recent reports that some companies are cutting safety processes in hopes of reducing costs.

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Tags: business downturn, cutting safety, reducing costs

“How do I get all my employees to wear their safety gear all the time?” It’s one of the top challenges safety pros face year after year. So we asked 290 of your peers about their experiences to find out the top reasons workers give for not wearing PPE.

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Tags: excuses, PPE, workplace injury

OSHA says it’s not enough for companies to develop fall protection plans — they have to enforce them, too.

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Tags: fall, fall protection plan, Fatality, OSHA, personal protection equipment

OSHA now has a new, powerful weapon in its arsenal to hit companies hard for PPE and training violations when a new rule takes effect.

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Tags: OSHA fines, per-employee, PPE, Safety training

Recently, industry has increased the use of the solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP) as a substitute for other banned substances. Now, scientists are looking into potential problems with 1-BP.

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Tags: 1-bromopropane, hazardous substances, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, NIOSH

Disability laws don’t trump OSHA rules on required personal protective equipment (PPE).

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Tags: ADA, disability, PPE

A recent survey shows employees’ failure to use personal protective equipment is a widespread problem.

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Tags: PPE, Safety training, survey