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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has strict rules for how you operate forklifts. To remain fully compliant, however, owners of liquid propane (LP) trucks must also follow OSHA standards related to fuel storage. That requires employers to understand a whole separate group of regulations.

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) requires employers to provide emergency stations to workers wherever chemical hazards are present. Those facilities need to be immediately accessible, and they need to meet certain standards (which we’ll address below).

In the beverage industry, material handling equipment is critical for protecting products while limiting manual work — and if your operation uses forklifts to handle fruits, hops, or other materials, you understand the importance of choosing the right tool for the job.

How much will it cost you to bring your goods to market? That depends on how you ship. You might choose rail, water, or air carriers. But the vast majority of U.S. freight travels over the highways, loaded onto trailers pulled by semi trucks.

The electric vehicle (EV) charging industry could be worth up to $15 billion per year by 2030, says McKinsey. In 2023, meanwhile, the U.S. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law began the process of dispersing $7.5 billion in federal funding to build a national EV charging network.

By 2021, electric vehicles were poised to take off in the United States. That year, the President came into the year’s legislative sessions with ambitious goals: The administration planned to build a network of half a million public EV chargers and make electric cars half of all new-vehicle sales by 2030.

In 2021, the food manufacturing industry employed more than 15 percent of all manufacturing workers. That was 1.7 million people — and many of those workers faced injury risks on the job.

In food warehouses, ergonomics are a crucial consideration. Workers that regularly move products and materials have a high risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) — even when the weight of the load is fairly limited.

If you operate multi-family residential properties, your residents are more likely to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than ever. The U.S. federal government’s goal is to get EVs to 50 percent of all new car sales by 2030. Meanwhile, the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law set aside $7.5 billion to build the nation’s EV charging networks.

Hydrogen fluoride (HF) — hydrofluoric acid — is commonly used to manufacture plastics, electrical compounds, refrigerants, and a wide range of other products.

In its pure form, it’s a clear, colorless, and corrosive liquid, and it can be extremely hazardous to workers: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) limits permissible HF exposure to 3 parts per million (ppm) averaged over an 8-hour work shift.