MNOSHA Compliance: Safety Lines newsletter

Safety Lines is a quarterly publication of Minnesota OSHA and the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Its purpose is to promote occupational safety and health and to inform readers of the purpose, plans and progress of Minnesota OSHA. Visit the archive for past editions.

January 2025

View the January 2025 edition of Safety Lines

Contents

• Minnesota OSHA 2024:  The year in review

• Free on-site safety and health consultations available

• Responsibility for employee health, safety on multi-employer worksites

• Pay extra attention to threat of carbon monoxide during the winter

• Arthur E. McCauley Jr. Award nominations accepted through March 3

• MNOSHA fatality, serious-injury investigations summaries online

• Translated materials, webpages, Language Line available via DLI website

• Employer cited $730K for commercial diving standard violations after worker drowns during lake weed removal

• About joint labor-management safety committees

• Next Construction Seminar, Jan. 21:  Learn AWAIR program, safety committee requirements

• SOII sauce:  2023 fatality estimates, injury and illness estimates released

• Improved recordkeeping, reporting standards

• Minnesota OSHA's calendar of events

• Training:  OSHA recordkeeping basics offered online Jan. 17, 24

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