Lab Coat Caution

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  • Nothing Happened Yesterday

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    After a string of deaths, fires and near-fatal injuries in Massachusetts scrap yards, the industry is asking how to keep good people from drifting, and the answer may take sixty seconds at a time.

  • STRUCK-BY HAZARDS

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    WHEN THE DOOR SWINGS BACK Struck-By Hazards, the Hidden Catastrophe of Silence, and Why Reporting Every Incident Saves Lives THE INCIDENT THAT STARTED THIS CONVERSATION It began like any other workday. A commercial driver — experienced, professional, trusted — pulled into a third-party scrap facility to unload material. The work was routine. The day was…

  • OSHA’s New Instance-By-Instance Citations: What Scrap Yard Operators Need to Know

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    Just five days ago, on February 24th, the metal scrap recycling industry crossed a significant threshold in occupational safety enforcement. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s expanded instance-by-instance (IBI) citation policy officially took effect, fundamentally changing how violations are cited and penalized across the scrap metal industry. For safety managers and supervisors in scrap yards…