Minnesota OSHA publishes a quarterly newsletter. The January 2011 edition is now available on Minnesota OSHA’s website. You can also subscribe to receive email notification of when Safety Lines is published.
Highlights of this issue include:
- Ken Peterson is named the new commissioner of Department of Labor and Industry.
- MNOSHA visisted 2691 workplaces in 2010, finding 5,534 hazards.
- Safe patient handling requirements went into effect this week (as of January 10 facilities must minimize manual handling of patients).
- OSHA 300 logs: there is an explanation of injuries that might be compensable under workers’ compensation but not recordable on the OSHA log.
- 2009 injury and illness survey statistics are summarized.