When Safety Meets Humor: Adventures in Employee Sampling
This article appeared in the PSST! Linked In Newsletter on July 21, 2025 Wisconsin’s Public Sector enforcement is almost exactly the same as OSHA’s Consultation: hazard identification, Safety Manager and employee training, and abatement. We did not work in pairs, and sometimes my inspection sites were far into the backwoods of Wisconsin. While it was […]
OELs: There Is No Such Thing as One Size Fits All
The first day of my Ergonomics course at the University of Michigan Professor Strong explained how chairs, mostly not adjustable in those days, were built for a 6′ tall male, which explained a LOT. He went on to point out that 6′ people were not the majority at the time they were producing chairs only […]
Be sure your sampling meets OSHA’s requirements
Sampling is more than just slapping a pump on an employee to see if their exposures exceed legal limits. The expectations of sampling strategy and recordkeeping are best exemplified in OSHA’s expanded standards. First, we’ll discuss general best sampling strategies and then we will use the Methylene Chloride standard, 1910.1052, to demonstrate OSHA’s expectations for […]