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OSHA Standard on Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens. - [1910.1030]
This letter provides guidance on employees working outside the United States.
This letter provides guidance on temporary help/leasing services; and joint employment.
Summit's training program on confined space entry. - [1910.146]
Who is required to wear the body harnesses and retrieval lines. - [1910.146]
Use of battery power operated cleaning equipment in hazardous locations. - [1910.307(c)]
CPL 02-00-098 [CPL 2.98] - National - Guidelines for Case File Documentation for use with Videotapes and Audiotapes - 10/12/1993
Whether the Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. Employer's Short Term Disability Plan and its Salary Continuation Plan, which pay benefits out of the employer’s general assets for absences due to certain medical reasons that equal or are a significant portion of, but do not exceed, the employee’s normal compensation, are payroll practices within the meaning of the Department of Labor regulations at 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(b) and therefore are not "employee welfare benefit plans" within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether the Capital Metro Retirement and Savings Plan (formerly known as the Capital Metro 401(k) Plan) is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of Title I of ERISA and, thus, excluded from ERISA Title I coverage by section 4(b)(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Whether a health benefit program (the ERM Program) offered by Employers Resource Management Company, Inc. (ERM), an employee leasing firm that markets certain services relating to employees of client companies, is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of ERISA section 3(40).
The meaning of the word "entrapment" as in the Permit Required Confined Space (PRCS) standard. - [1910.146]
This letter provides guidance on volunteers not counted as employees for the 50 employee test of employer coverage.
This letter provides guidance on disability insurance.
Scheduling and prioritizing on a "worst-first" basis. - [1910.119]
Hazard warning label requirements. - [1910.1048]
OSHA does not endorse commercial products. - [1910.1030]
This letter provides guidance on the employers compliance obligations with state or local law; and the pre-FMLA enactment changes to leave policies.
Free standing/boom supported personnel hoist. - [1926.552(c)(3)]
Pregnancy care centers administering urine pregnancy tests and the BBP standard. - [1910.1030]
Testing requirements as they apply to powered platform installations permanently dedicated to building maintenance. - [1910.66]
OSHA's system of inspection priorities. - [1903]
Adjustment of McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act wage rates
Coating processes covered by the PSM standard. - [1910.119]
Personal protective equipment, general requirements and employer responsibility. - [1910.132]
Eyelet and four-slide machines are covered by 1910.212. - [1910.212]
Use of microwave systems to convert regulated waste into waste free of biohazardous material. - [1910.1030]
OSHA does not approve or endorse products. - [1910.1030]
FDA regulated drugs that pose a hazard would be covered by the HCS. - [1910.1200]
OSHA does not regulate the outer shipping container of hazardous material. - [1910.1048]
Requirement of name, address and telephone number on an MSDS. - [1910.1200]
Whether a bank acting as an agent or trustee for employee benefit plans earning interest for their own accounts from the "float" when a benefit check is written to a participant until the check is presented for payment is prohibited under section 406(b)(3) of ERISA.
Whether Prohibited Transaction Exemption 77-4 applies to transactions involving IRAs not covered by Title I of ERISA but which are subject to section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Employee alarm systems. - [1910.165(b)(5)]
HHCs as it applies to Hydrogen Peroxide delivered from a tank truck. - [1910.119]
Interpretation of the word "close". - [1910.110(b)(14)(i)]
Movement of compressed gas cylinders with regulators installed and "special truck" requirement. - [1910.253]
Qualified employee requirements for the servicing and maintenance of electrical equipment. - [1910.332(a); 1910.333(b); 1910.333(c)(2); 1910.334(c)(1)]
This letter provides guidance on an equivalent position.
This letter provides guidance on condominium associations as employers and joint employment.
Delivery of hydrogen peroxide, 52% by weight or greater. - [1910.119]
Requirement for additional employee training whenever new hazards are identified. - [1910.1200]
Secondary wire rope suspension systems. - [1926.451(g)(3)(iv)]
Solvents classified as a combustible liquid on the basis of the MSDS. - [1910.1200(d); 1910.1200(g)]
Wiring, Extension Cords and Grounding. - [1926.404(f)(3)(i)]
What are the appropriate actions to be taken by plan administrators under Title I of ERISA when presented with requests for recovery of mistaken primary payments made by Medicare under the Medicare Secondary Payer provisions. Whether medical providers or plan participants who have been paid for the same services by both Medicare and employee benefit plans, or who have otherwise misled plan fiduciaries, could be held liable as knowing participants in any fiduciary breach resulting from such actions.
Whether the Armstrong Dependent Care Reimbursement Account, adopted by Armstrong World Industries, Inc. to provide its full-time and part-time employees with dependent care assistance by reimbursing dependent care services freely chosen by employees , is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of ERISA.
Employee exposure to hazardous chemicals while working around small sensors. - [1910.1200]
Enforcement of ventilation requirements for welding operations. - [1910.252(c)]
Unit dose syringes. - [1910.1030]
All electrical equipment must be approved. - [1910.399]
Mineral oil and/or petrolatum containing skin care products and latex gloves. - [1910.1030]
In preparing an annual report for a defined benefit pension plan (Plan) subject to Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), what is the proper disclosure of information relating to assets held in an insurance company separate account established pursuant to a specific group annuity contract to provide benefit payments under the Plan. Specifically, what are the plan's annual reporting requirements with respect to the plan's statement of assets and liabilities, the Schedule A for the Contract, and the plan's Schedule B.
Exposure monitoring requirements. - [1910.1001]
HHCs as it applies to Hydrocarbon fuels used solely for workplace consumption. - [1910.119]
Willful violations for lack of general training in construction. - [1903; 1926.21]
DOL advised agencies that the reviesed H&W levels were $.89 and $2.39
This letter provides guidance on the accrual of benefits; overtime calculation payment of bonuses; and "No fault" attendance policies.
MSDS requirements for drugs. - [1910.1200]
Clarification of the definition of a permit-required confined space (permit space). - [1910.146]
Defines suffer or permit to work as applied to time caring for a canine patrol dog at home. The duties are the employee's principal activities.
Extension cord grounding continuity requirements. - [1926.404(b)(1)(iii)(D); 1926.404(b)(1)(iii)(E); 1926.404(b)(1)(iii)(G)]
Labeling requirements for Formaldehyde when used as an insecticide. - [1910.1048]
Warning stickers on stump grinders. - [1926.200]
Compliance and Enforcement Activities affected by the PELs Decision. - [1910.1000; 1910.1000 TABLE Z-1; 1910.1000 TABLE Z-2; 1910.1000 TABLE Z-3]
Post-emergency response and medical surveillance requirements of HAZWOPER. - [1910.120]
Permit-Required Confined Spaces for General Industry. - [1910.146]
Sales by the establishment may be considered retail sales in the particular industry.
Whether the term "similar institution," as used in 29 C.F.R. § 2520.103-8, includes securities brokerage firms.
Conflict between requirements of 1910.252 and 1910.146. - [1910.252; 1910.146]
Minnesota administers its own occupational Safety & Health Program. - [1910.120]
Use of the Racal "Breath-Easy 6" powered air purifying respirator with beards. - [1910.134(g)(1)(i)]
Definition of Potentially Gassy Atmosphere. - [1926.800]
Permissibility of a consent form with a waiver of liability. - [1910.1030; 1910.1030(g)(2)(vii)(I)]
On-call time for employees who are not required to remain on the employer's premises and are free to engage in their own pursuits is not compensable hours worked. When an on-call employee goes out on a ob assignment, only the time actuall spent making the call need be counted as compensable hours worked.
Minimum length that an excavation must be before a protective system is required. - [1926.652(a)]
Whether the Short-Term Disability Income Plan for Non-Exempt Employees of The Coca-Cola Company is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
Flammable and Combustible Liquid standard. - [1910.106]
Head protection standard. - [1910.135 ]
Class I lasers. - [1926.54]
Custom shoes in an industrial environment. - [1910.136(b); 1926.96]
Pump jack scaffold bracing. - [1926 Subpart L]
Reverse signal alarms for motor vehicles. - [1926.601(b)(4)(i)]
Letter responds to the question as to the application of EPPA to the polygraph examination a job applicant took for employement with a county sheriff's office.
Coverage of Lifeguards. - [1910.1030]
Dimethylamine and Anhydrous Dimethlamine and the PSM standard. - [1910.119]
Noise exposure standard and impairment adjustments. - [1910.95; 1910.95 App F]
Protocol for blunting a needle against re-use & one-handed recapping prior to discard. - [1910.1030]
Whether the American Fidelity Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of Title I of ERISA and, therefore, subject to applicable state insurance regulations.
Exposure to hypodermic needles in recycling center. - [1910.1030]
State mandated college credits required for law enforcement officers is of general applicability. The FLSA does not require compensation by the employer for time spent in such training.
Public works employee wants to volunteer time as fire dispatcher
The FLSA does not prevent an employer from paying compensation in excess of its overtime standards under 7k. In some instances such excess payments may be treated as both excludable from the "regular rate" and creditable toward any FLSA overtime due.
Portable and vehicle mounted generators must be "approved" on the job site. - [1926.403; 1926.449]
When an OSHA standard references an earlier version of the ANSI standard.
Guidelines for platforms and walkways on cranes. - [1910.179(b); 1910.179(d)]
MSDS requirements - [1910.1200]
Application of standard to more than health care workers - [1910.1030]
Sulfuric acid and the PSM standard. - [1910.119]
Response to emergency in "normal work area" definition. - [1910.120]
After changing protective clothing for a lunch break, it should not be reused for the balance of the shift. - [1926.1101]
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