MNOSHA Compliance: Safety Lines newsletter

Safety Lines is a quarterly publication of Minnesota OSHA and the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Its purpose is to promote occupational safety and health and to inform readers of the purpose, plans and progress of Minnesota OSHA. Visit the archive for past editions.

October 2024

View the October 2024 edition of Safety Lines

Contents

• Harvest season reminder:  Grain safety, hazard awareness

• Are you registered to vote?

• Confined-space hazards:  What employers need to know

• Recap of Safety Grant Programs for state-fiscal-year 2024

  • Safety grants directed to projects improving worker safety and health

  • Safety grants directed to projects improving workers' ergonomic safety and health

• Free on-site safety and health consultations available

• Ergonomics continues to be focus of inspections in covered industries

• MNOSHA fatality, serious-injury investigations summaries online

• 2023 workplace injury, illness, fatality rates released soon

• Longtime MNSHARP worksite Malco Tools reaches MNSTAR Program status

• Rulemaking updates

  • Minnesota OSHA increases for maximum, minimum penalties

  • MNOSHA proposed adoption of Hazard Communication standard

  • MNOSHA lead rulemaking process

  • Federal OSHA proposes heat injury, illness prevention in outdoor and indoor work settings

• MNOSHA Compliance continues hiring, training new investigators

• Next Construction Seminar, Nov. 19:  Addressing mental health, suicide awareness in the construction industry

• SOII sauce:  Injury, illness trends for private-sector nursing care facilities in Minnesota

• MNOSHA Compliance signs safety, health partnerships

• Translated materials, webpages, Language Line available via DLI website

• Minnesota OSHA's calendar of events

• Training:  OSHA recordkeeping basics offered online Friday, Oct. 25

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