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OSHA all set to hold a Safety Education Conference for Latino Workers

OSHA has announced that it is all set to host a free outreach and education conference for Latino workers in February of this year. This conference will take place in Oakland, California and will be a one day event that features a number of valuable health and safety workshops and informational booths. It also aims to provide workers with relevant materials and assistance from industry experts to help educate them about employee rights and employer responsibilities. Each year, tens of thousands of Latino workers in the United States are injured or killed due to workplace accidents. The rate of Latino workers suffering from workplace related injuries are higher than that of others. Keeping these statistics in mind, OSHA has organized a safety conference in California to help educate these workers on the importance of safety. OSHA has long since been the governing figure for enforcing safety at workplaces across the country. Latino workers have however, long since been neglected beca...

The Basics of a 40 Hour HAZWOPER Training Course

The 40 Hour HAZWOPER Training Course is a basic course that every employee has to undergo before getting started with work. Those employees, who especially deal with uncontrolled hazardous waste operations, are required to take this course. This course has been specifically designed for those workers who are directly or indirectly involved in the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous substances, clean-up operations, emergency response proceedings or those who work at uncontrolled waste sites. The course consists of topics such as: The OSHA Regulations Safety of the Workers Safety of the Environment How to Protect oneself from Hazardous Chemicals, and how to eliminate them. These are just a few of the topics in the course. All participants require a score of 70% and above to pass the course. If at all you don't succeed in passing the first time, then you can take the final text at least three times more. Every employer should consider it his duty to enroll his workers in the ...

Benefits of 40 Hour HAZWOPER Course

There are many significant benefits that a 40 hour HAZWOPER course can provide you. This course is specially designed for the workers who involve in managing hazardous substances or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Actually, 40 hour HAZWOPER training is a safety and health occupational course required for those mentioned workers. This course can help those workers also who regularly or potentially expose to hazardous substances or waste or engage in any one of the operations as specified by 1926.65(a)(1)(i-v) and 1910.120(a)(1)(i-v). The operations are: Clean-up operations conducted at uncontrolled hazardous waste places, Corrective actions that involve clean-up operations at sites as covered in Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA) as altered (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.), Voluntary clean-up operations at uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, Operations consisting of hazardous wastes that are conducted at storage, treatment and disposal facilities as regulated by Titl...