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BEYOND COMPLIANCE: TAKING CARE OF THE SAFETY PROFESSIONAL p34 Spring/Summer 2019 SafetyDecisionsMagazine.com Management OSHA Support for Safety: Explains Disrupting the Hybrid Paradigm p22 SDSs p43 Unaffected by Government Shutdown, OSHA Increases Penalties p48 We Can’t Fix Mental Health Lockout/ Tagout: Are with Duct Tape: There Changes on A New Frontier the Horizon? p30 in Safety p12 Spring/Summer 2019 Contents VOLUME V n NUMBER 2 DEPARTMENTS 40 Employers See the Effect of Rises in Marijuana and Opioid Use The use and misuse of both illicit and Keeping Up prescription drugs are affecting a growing 6 Beryllium Enforcement … Avetta and number of employers. BROWZ Merge … NTSB’s ‘Most Wanted’ By Guy Burdick … Whistleblower ADR Policy … Carbon Monoxide … Telgian’s CFATS Software … Nurses and PPE … NIOSH Resources … 43 OSHA Explains Hybrid SDSs Wal-Mart Citation Vacated … Still confused about some of the finer Defense Contractor Safety Violations … points of the HazCom and GHS standards? You’re not alone, and OSHA recently provided some guidance. Strategy By William C. Schillaci 22 Management Support for Safety: Disrupting the Paradigm EHS Professional Profile “In order for safety to be effective in any organization, you must gain management’s 46 John Herr support.” That has been the mantra of the CEO—Avetta safety profession for decades. By Scotty Dunlap, EdD, CSP 28 All the HazCom Updates You Can 10 Expect This Year Revisions are coming. Here’s what you can expect to see—but don’t jump the gun on aligning your hazard communication Cover Story programs just yet. 12 We Can’t Fix By Guy Burdick 30 Lockout/Tagout: Are There Mental Health Changes on the Horizon? OSHA may be planning to explore alternative 48 with Duct Tape: methods of ensuring workers are protected from sources of hazardous energy (chemical, electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, A New Frontier pneumatic, thermal, and others). Day to Day By Guy Burdick 48 Unaffected by Government in Safety Shutdown, OSHA Increases Penalties Historically, mental health and suicide Beyond Compliance The government shutdown several months have not been considered safety ago affected many federal agencies and priorities—until now. Here is why industry 34 Taking Care of the Safety contractors but not the Occupational Safety should care deeply about these issues, Professional and Health Administration (OSHA). along with evidence-based tactics to By Ray Prest By the Safety Decisions Staff save lives and alleviate suffering. By Sally Spencer-Thomas, Psy.D. Practical Tips 50 A Trove of Fatality Data Released from the Labor Department 36 The Two-Way Relationship The federal government has long tracked PLUS Between Workers’ Comp and Safety both fatal and nonfatal workplace injuries. Do you fully understand how your workers’ The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor 4 Editor’s Letter compensation programs and policies Statistics (BLS) has been compiling and 53 Just for Fun interact with your organization’s releasing a national Census of Fatal 54 Advertising Index safety program? Occupational Injuries (CFOI) since 1992. 54 Reader Resources By Guy Burdick By Guy Burdick Safety Decisions is published four times a year by BLR, 100 Winners Circle, Suite 300, Brentwood TN 37027. Periodicals postage paid at Brentwood, TN, and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Safety Decisions Magazine, PO Box 5094, Brentwood, TN 37024. SafetyDecisionsMagazine.com Safety Decisions | Spring/Summer 2019 3 Editor’s Letter VOLUME V n NUMBER 2 PUBLISHER SIMPLIFY COMPLIANCE MENTAL HEALTH: SAFETY MUST www.simplifycompliance.com DEFEAT SILENCE AND STIGMA EDITORIAL Senior Managing Editor, EHS AMANDA CZEPIEL, JD training or personal protective equipment. [email protected] Dr. Spencer-Thomas has provided our readers with a wealth of information and Contributing Editors resources in her cover story—please do not GUY BURDICK hesitate to use them at your organization! WILLIAM C. SCHILLACI [email protected] But while the safety professional is taking care of everybody else, who takes Senior Editor care of the safety professional? Often, good JUSTIN SCACE self-care is the key. SafeStart’s Ray Prest [email protected] tackles the flip side of the workplace Copy Editors mental health equation in his Beyond JOAN CARLSON Compliance column, providing tips on [email protected] how safety pros can avoid burnout and stay LINDA COSTA both physically and mentally healthy. [email protected] As always, stop by the Keeping Up section AMANDA FAVA for 10 timely safety news items, and we have [email protected] e have some exciting a wide selection of other articles in this issue news at Safety Decisions as well: ART —our Fall/Winter 2018 • Management Support for Safety: Art Director issue is a Jesse H. Neal Disrupting the Paradigm DOUG PONTE Award finalist for Best • The Two-Way Relationship Between [email protected] Single Issue of a Tab- Workers’ Comp and Safety Cover Illustrator KELLY CHURCH loid/Newspaper/Maga- • Unaffected by Government Shutdown, [email protected] zine! We won’t know whether we have won OSHA Increases Penalties Wuntil after this issue has gone to print, but • Lockout/Tagout: Are There Changes on MARKETING AND we’ll keep you posted in the EHS Daily the Horizon? OPERATIONS Advisor. We are honored to be a finalist and • An EHS professional profile of John Marketing Director are very proud of the work we do bringing Herr, CEO of Avetta AMANDA HURLBURT our readers important workplace safety • A new cartoon plus OSHA challenge [email protected] news, trends, and best practices. trivia on the Just for Fun page Marketing Manager KYLE EMSHWILLER And speaking of important trends in • And much, much more! [email protected] safety, our cover story this quarter is not to be missed. Mental illness affects every- At Safety Decisions, we love hear- one, either personally or through connec- ing from our readers! Drop us a line at SALES Director, EHS Media Sales tions with friends, family, or coworkers. [email protected] RYAN VINCENT Construction workers, although they are to let us know how we’re doing and what [email protected] in a very safety-conscious industry, are at you’d like to see next. Media Client Success Manager a particularly high risk of suicide. In an MICHELLE DEFRANCESCO in-depth article, Sally Spencer-Thomas, Thanks for reading, [email protected] Psy.D., illuminates the facts of the issue along with evidence-based strategies for suicide prevention and other assistance for employees who may be struggling with their mental health. Addressing this safety issue is a great challenge today, and Justin Scace proper knowledge and intervention can Senior Editor Copyright 2019 BLR®— be just as life-saving as fall protection [email protected] Business & Legal Resources 4 Safety Decisions | Spring/Summer 2019 SafetyDecisionsMagazine.com Keeping Up OSHA BERYLLIUM ENFORCEMENT RAMPS UP On March 11, OSHA began enforcing additional provi- • Using Method 1023 to assess beryllium exposure levels if sions of its general industry beryllium standard, specifically beryllium is found when sampling welding fumes using the requirements for change rooms and showers. OSHA Method 125G (which cannot adequately assess OSHA will begin enforcing general industry require- exposure levels); ments for engineering controls to limit worker beryllium • Collecting one or more personal breathing zone samples dust exposures a year later, on March 10, 2020. At on the first day of the inspection; construction and shipyard workplaces, the agency is only • Placing a sampling cassette outside of the helmet/hood enforcing the permissible exposure limit (PEL), which is to monitor for abrasive blasting exposures when an 0.2 micrograms per cubic meter (µg/m3) of air averaged employee is wearing an abrasive blast respirator with a over 8 hours. hood/helmet; and Inspection procedures for enforcing the PEL include: • When collecting an air sample on a welder wearing a • Using the agency’s new sampling and analytical method protective helmet, positioning a sampling cassette inside for beryllium, OSHA Method 1023; the helmet. qualifying the suppliers that sup- Avetta and BROWZ Merge port their global clients. Avetta’s and BROWZ’s 450 combined clients in- to Become a Leading clude blue chip companies in industry verticals such as energy, chemicals, Provider of Supply-Chain manufacturing, utilities, construc- tion materials, facilities management, Risk Management communications, transportation, lo- gistics and retail, mining, aerospace Avetta and BROWZ, two lead- innovator, and thought leader, expand- and defense, and food and beverage. ing providers of SaaS-based supply- ing the company’s global network to These industry leaders require better chain risk management software, 85,000 customers in over 100 countries visibility into supply-chain