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Spring 2008

Winter 2008

Fall 2007

Winter 2006-2007

• Motor vehicle safety
  • Reporting work-related motor vehicle crashes
  • Managing vehicle safety
• Getting traction in the winter
• Electrical safety

Summer/Fall 2006

• Sanitation at construction sites
  • Sanitary facilities
  • Potable and nonpotable water
  • Handwashing
• Fall Protection in Construction
  • 503 Committee completes work and dissolves itself
• Worker Memorial Scholarships 2006 recipients
• Changes to OR-OSHA Web site: Improved navigation and added features
• GOSH 2007 awards nominations

Winter/Spring 2006

• What is safety and health management
  • Management commitment
  • Training
  • Supervisory responsibilities
  • Employee involvement
  • Hazard identification and control
  • Accident investigation
  • Evaluation
• Worksite reponsibility: guidelines for contractors

Fall 2005

• Selecting portable ladders
• Using ladders safely
• Ladder inspection, maintenance, and repair
• Storing ladders
• Transporting ladders
• A checklist of safe pracitices

Summer 2005

• Are you planning to hire a young worker?
• Advice for employers
• Laws to know
• Getting started with young workers
• Advice for young workers
• 2005 five worst teen jobs
• How young workers get hurt

Spring 2005

• Never enter an unprotected trench!
• What causes a cave in?
• Planning: what to consider before you dig
• What’s the difference between an excavation and a trench?
• The role of the competent person
• Getting in and out of a trench
• Materials and mobile equipment
• Hazardous atmospheres
• Water accumulation
• Use appropriate protection to prevent cave-ins

Winter 2005

• Fall Protection: Questions and answers
• Construction industry’s frequently cited standards
• Did you know? Substance abuse — statistics on drug use in the workplace
• Skanska recognized for safety at Bend and Redmond hospital projects
• 2005 GOSH Conference open for registration
• Workers’ Memorial Scholarship deadline is March 1

Fall 2004

• Fall protection, rebar, and concrete formwork: the basics
• OR-OSHA’s 502 Committee produces a new fall protection booklet
• Safe Jobs, Smart Business for construction contractors

Summer 2004

• In the zone: traffic control safety
• Have a nice day: outdoor awareness for the summer
• Workplace Safety and Health Conferences
• Construction fatalities aren't always work related
• Yorke & Curtis recognized for worker safety

Spring 2004

• The 502 Committee addresses fall-protection challenges in stick-framed construction.
• Rod Comstock tells you how OR-OSHA’s training workshops can help
  bring new employees up to speed on workplace safety and health.
• Don Harris highlights the benefits of checking out a safety-training video from the OR-OSHA AV Library.
• Do you have to comply with OR-OSHA rules if youre an independent construction contractor?
• Ron Preece covers criteria you need to consider.
• Finally, a reminder: Be aware of asbestos if you do remodeling work. It’s still a concern for construction workers.

Winter 2004

• Keep the lines of communication open
• Poem: I chose to look the other way
• PESO: a new bilingual training program for construction safety
• I'm OR-OSHA's new Resource Center librarian, Jane Kirby
• Hearing-loss column added to OSHA 300 log
• Construction happenings (a list of events)
• Sign up for OR-OSHA's electronic notification service

Fall 2003

• Should you be concerned about mold?
• How to prevent mold
• How do molds enter a building?
• Should you test for mold?
• Does OR-OSHA have regulations that address mold?

Spring 2003

• The Construction Advisory Committee: working for you (list of members)
• Using a work platform on a rough-terrain lift truck?
• GFCIs: Effective if they're not defective

Winter 2003

• Falling: Truths and consequences
• Why we need protection from fallingFalling without protection
• Chart on "Accepted disabling workers' compensation claims Falls to a lower level in the construction industry, 1997-2001"
• How should we protect ourselves from falling?
• Fall-protection strategies
• Is Humpty safe?
• You know the end to this story.
• COSHA to host Mid-Oregon Construction Safety Summit

Summer 2002

• GFCIs and OR-OSHA's ground-fault-protection rules
• Types of GFCIs
• How GFCIs protect us
• Testing receptical GFCIs
• About OR-OSHA's new ground-fault protection rule
• Which rule do I follow?
• Where to learn more
• Electrical safety videos available from OR-OSHA
  

Spring 2002

• Should you be concerned about hazardous energy?
• Hazardous energy in the workplace
• How hazardous energy causes accidents: An example
• How to control hazardous energy
• Where to learn more about controlling hazardous energy

Fall 2001

• Do you have a safe and healthful workplace?
• Dermatitis: What is it? What are the symptoms? How to control exposure
• Silicosis: What is it? What are the symptoms? How to control exposure
• Hearing Loss: What is it? What are the symptoms? How to control exposure
• Want to learn more?
  • OR-OSHA's Public Education section and the Joint Emphasis Program (JEP) are offering a series of four-hour workshops that will help you learn about health hazards in construction workplaces

Summer 2001

• Going Up?
• Working six feet or more above a lower level? - List of hazardous work areas, and hazardous tasks
• You don't have to fall far to get hurt
• Thinking about fall protection
• Fall protection: what it really means
• Want to know more about fall protection? OR-OSHA training workshop
• List: Fall protection videos