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2. California Division of Occupational Safety and Health

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   Cal/OSHA's mission is to protect public health and safety through research and regulation related to hazards on the job in California workplaces as well as on elevators, amusement rides, and ski lifts, and related to the use of pressure vessels such as boilers and tanks. Cal/OSHA requires that qualifying organizations create illness and injury ...

3. Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act - Wikipedia

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   The Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA) is a US federal law enacted in 1986 by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan. [1]

4. General duty clause - Wikipedia

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   Under the Clean Air Act Section 112(r)(1), the General Duty Clause states: “The owners and operators of stationary sources producing, processing, handling or storing such substances (i.e., a chemical in 40 CFR part 68 or any other extremely hazardous substance) have a general duty [in the same manner and to the same extent as the general duty clause in the Occupational Safety and Health Act ...

5. EPA to ban last form of asbestos used in US - AOL

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   Raw chrysotile asbestos was imported into the U.S. as recently as 2022 for use by the chlor-alkali industry, which makes asbestos diaphragms to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine, used to ...

6. Asbestos abatement - Wikipedia

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   In construction, asbestos abatement is a set of procedures designed to control the release of asbestos fibers from asbestos-containing materials. [1] Asbestos abatement is utilized during general construction in areas containing asbestos materials, particularly when those materials are being removed, encapsulated, or repaired.

7. Immediately dangerous to life or health - Wikipedia

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   The OSHA definition is part of a legal standard, which is the minimum legal requirement. Users or employers are encouraged to apply proper judgment to avoid taking unnecessary risks, even if the only immediate hazard is "reversible", such as temporary pain, disorientation, nausea, or non-toxic contamination.

8. HAZWOPER - Wikipedia

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   The most commonly used manual for HAZWOPER activities is Department of Health and Human Services Publication 85–115, Occupational Safety and Health Guidance Manual for Hazardous Waste Site Activities. [3] Written for government contractors and first responders, the manual lists safety requirements for cleanups and emergency-response operations.

9. Chief of California’s OSHA program steps down as agency ...

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   Brown, a former special assistant to past Cal-OSHA Chief Ellen Widess, has been an outspoken advocate for staffing up Cal-OSHA ever since he first retired from the division in 2014 (he returned as ...