Category: October 2021 Newsletter

Tomorrow, October 23rd marks the anniversary of the Phillips 66 Petroleum Chemical Plant explosion that claimed the lives of 23 people. Click here to watch NASP’s Today In History to learn how a lack of proper ventilation systems, lockout tagout procedures, and fail-safe valves contributed to the tragedy. Don’t forget…

NASP is excited to attend the Safety Connect 2021 Conference and Expo next week! This conference is completely FREE for attendees! There is still time to sign up, click here to register today. The show runs from October 19th through the 21st. We hope to see you there, and look…

With CSM Charleston recently coming to a close, NASP is proud to announce it has two of its world-renowned Train-the-Trainer courses coming to Wilmington, NC for Fall 2021. These intensive, hands-on, practical courses meet various standards for trainers wishing to do HAZMAT and Confined Space Entry/Rescue training in-house. Each course…

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB-701, which takes effect January 1st, 2022, a new bill that is aiming to regulate productivity quotas in the warehousing industry. The law will require companies to have transparency around productivity quotas. Although Amazon was not specifically named, it is believed that they were…

Environmental health and safety should never take a back seat to making a profit. The former president of an oil waste reclamation plant learned that lesson the hard way. Peter Margiotta, 64 years old, just started an 18-month sentence in a federal prison after being found guilty of multiple criminal…

What is the multi-employer worksite doctrine? It depends on who you ask. OSHA’s enforcement guidelines and policies under its compliance directive call it a worksite where more than one employer may be responsible for the same hazardous condition. Essentially, a single OSHA violation can be attributable to the general contractor,…

In case you hadn’t heard, NASP now offers two versions of our flagship Certified Safety Manager (CSM) course. The CSM course is perfect for general industry safety managers, and the Certified Safety Manager: Construction (CSMC) is everything you love about the CSM, but with a focus on topics geared more…

The National Safety Council released a report conducted as part of its SAFER initiative. Let’s learn more about the initiative and their findings in this week’s Safety News Break. Like and subscribe to NASP’s YouTube channel to stay up-to-date with weekly news alerts, HS&E tips and tricks, and more!

California has just signed into law a warehouse safety initiative targeting production quotas. Let’s learn more about this one of a kind law in this week’s Safety News Break. Like and subscribe to NASP’s YouTube channel to stay up-to-date with weekly news alerts, HS&E tips and tricks, and more!