Lion News
10/12/2011
Feature Article: Find Out More About Workplace Safety Regulations
The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is less than 30 pages long, and the regulations enforcing the law are just over 1,500 more. These laws and rules describe an employer’s obligation to provide a safe work environment for his or her employees, to eliminate hazards where possible, and to mitigate hazards that...9/28/2011
Question of the Week: Mixing Used Oil & Hazardous Waste
9/28/2011
OSHA Extends Comment Period for Injury & Illness Recording and Reporting Rule Amendments
By request of the National Automobile Dealers Association, OSHA has reopened the rulemaking docket on it’s June 22, 2011 (76 FR 36414 proposal to modify the injury & illness recording and reporting program. Among the proposed changes, OSHA has...9/22/2011
Question of the Week: Shipping Samples Under 49 CFR 172.101(c)
Q. I have a material I need to ship off site that might be a DOT hazmat, but I’m not sure. I want to send a sample to a laboratory for testing, but how do I do that if I don’t know what its properties are? What do I have to do to ship this sample in compliance with the DOT’s regulations when I don’t know what kind of hazmat it is in the first place...9/16/2011
Updates to DOT Hazmat Rules
9/15/2011
Hazmat Special Permits Update 2011
On January 5, 2011, at 76 FR 454, PHMSA made a series of changes to the special permit application system. One of the new rules required all applicants to name the CEO or president of the company when filing for a special permit (including extensions, modifications, and party-to applications). PHMSA’s intent here was “…to ensure...9/15/2011
Question of the Week: Comparing CWA Control Technologies: BPT, BCT, BAT, BADCT
9/14/2011
Question of the Week: Hazard Communication: GHS Is Coming
9/2/2011
New Rules for Ozone?
The Obama administration placed themselves in a very interesting policy position on September 2, 2011 in announcing the withdrawal of the EPA’s proposed revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone. Citing the current economic conditions, the president’s decision was made based on his desire to establish strong environmental protection regulations without...8/31/2011
ECHA Identifies 20 Chemicals as Potential Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)
On August 29, 2011, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published a notice proposing to add 20 new chemicals to the Candidate List under the Registration Evaluation of Authorization Chemical Substances (REACH) regulations. These substances are believed to meet the REACH criteria of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). Many were identified due to their suspected carcinogenicity. Some were identified as...
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