OSHA Sends More Than 13,000 Letters to Businesses with High Injury Rates.In April, OSHA OSHA n. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, a branch of the US Department of Labor responsible for establishing and enforcing safety and health standards in the workplace. mailed letters to more than 13,000 workplaces with high occupational injury and illness rates. In the letter, OSHA Administrator Charles Charles, archduke of Austria Charles, 1771–1847, archduke of Austria; brother of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. Despite his epilepsy, he was the ablest Austrian commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; however, he was handicapped by Jeffress urges employers to remove the hazards that are causing these high rates by hiring safety and health consultants and using OSHA's on-site on-site adj. Done or located at the site, as of a particular activity: on-site monitoring of a production run; an on-site film shoot. consultation program. From this list, OSHA is targeting 4200 companies for wall-to-wall wall-to-wall adj. 1. Completely covering a floor: wall-to-wall carpeting. 2. Informal a. inspections. For this year's enforcement program, OSHA is utilizing lost workday injury and illness rates based on employer-reported data from 1998. Companies that experienced eight or more injuries or illnesses per 100 full-time employees should have received a letter from OSHA. (The national average is three instances per 100 workers.) A complete list of the companies that received a copy of the letter is posted on OSHA's website, which is available through a link in Washington Alert at www.moderncasting.com. |
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