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OSHA Standards for Landfill Workers
May 13, 2019| Posted in Blog| 5386
In the United States, if you work in construction, or in the maritime industry, or on a farm, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) gives you an entire section of the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 29, complete with its own part number. (The maritime industry gets three of them.)
Waste-Handling Injuries: What We Can Learn from OSHA Injury Reports
May 6, 2019| Posted in Blog| 2162
First, the good news. Fatalities for refuse and recycling collectors declined to a rate of 34.1 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2016. This halted a troubling rise that began in 2012 and peaked at a rate of 38.8 injuries per 100,000 workers in 2015.
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