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Application of the training requirements under 1910.120(e) to underwater divers. - [1910.120(e)]
Whether labels and material safety data sheets (MSDS) must be provided to downstream manufacturers and processors for orlon or orlon blend yarns. - [1910.1200]
Operations regulated by 40 CFR 264 and 265 must comply with 1910.120 training. - [1910.120]
Citations for Violations of Standards which are Under Revision - [1903.14 ]
Enforcement of OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard in the construction industry. - [1910.1200]
Whether a certain sale of securities from the General Electric Pension Trust to an underwriting syndicate of which Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated was a member was a prohibited transaction within the meaning of section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Whether the Tacoma Industrial Trust, established to provide life and accident, dental, vision care, drugs, pharmaceutical supplies, health benefits and prepaid legal benefits for employees of participating employers, is an employee welfare benefit plan covered by Title I of ERISA. Whether each employer electing to provide benefits described in section 3(1) through the Trust has established its own separate employee welfare benefit plan subject to Title I of ERISA.
Whether the FEA/GEA Dental Health Care Plan is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA.
The Ionizing Radiation Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1096. - [1910.1096]
Application of 1910.120 to the construction of a building where the ground water would be classified as hazardous waste. - [1910.120]
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) Material Safety Data Sheet Requirements for the Construction Industry. - [1910.1200(g)]
The legal right of employer to issue a notice to all workers concerning the management's policy on job safety and health.
Whether the WBMA, Inc. Voluntary Employee Benefit Trust is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA and whether the Trust is a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) within the meaning of section 3(40) of title I of ERISA.
Whether the Police Plan is a governmental plan within the meaning of section 3(32) of Title I of ERISA and, thus, is excluded from the requirements of title I of ERISA; as well as the applicable requirements of section 414(d) of the Internal Revenue.
Whether, upon formation of a partnership that intends to comply with the venture capital operating company exception contained in section 29 CFR 2510.3-101, the funds received as initial capital contributions from employee benefit plans will constitute plan assets prior to the partnership's first "venture capital investment".
The feasibility of OSHA's machine guarding requirements in their workplace. - [1910.212(a)(1); 1910.212(a)(3)(ii)]
Whether the investment in publicly offered limited partnerships; would satisfy the "freely transferable" requirement of the "publicly-offered" exception contained in the plan asset regulation section 29 CFR 2510.3-101(b)(2).
Maintenance of material safety data sheets(MSDS) and the written hazard communication program. - [1910.1020; 1910.1200]
Application of OSHA's final standard for Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. - [1910.120; 1910.120(b); 1910.120(c); 1910.120(d); 1910.120(e); 1910.120(f); 1910.120(h); 1910.120(i); 1910.120(j); 1910.120(k); 1910.120(l); 1910.120(m); 1910.12
Material safety data sheet requirement of the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Compressed Gas Cylinder Valve Protector. - [1910.253(b)(1)(iv)]
Labeling requirements of the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200(f)]
Fall protection requirements for employees working over water. - [1926.1431(k)(10)(i)]
Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Interpretation of Blood Test Parameters Under the Benzene Standard - [1910.1028(i); 1910.1028 App C]
Requirements for downstream transmission of material safety data sheets (MSDSs). - [1910.1200(g)]
Whether either the Better Business Bureau Insurance Trust or the utilization of the Trust (the Trust) to provide health care and other benefits to the employees of Griffith's Five Day Tire Store constitutes a MEWA within the meaning of 3(40) and an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of Title I of ERISA. Whether section 514(a) of title I of ERISA would preempt any state law from regulating the Trust.
Clarification of the term "approved". - [1926.152; 1926.32]
Policy concerning OSHA's Hearing Conservation Amendment - [1910.95]
Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) Labeling Requirements for Industrial Thermometers - [1910.1200]
Whether the receipt of "free checking" account services by a customer who directs his IRA to invest $2000 in a Bank financial products would be a prohibited transaction within the meaning of section 4975(c)(1) of the Code.
Whether (1) the amendment and merger of the six Defined Benefit (DB) plans into one DB plan, and (2) the amendment of the stock bonus plan, under the circumstances described therein, would not render the grandfather provision of section 9345(a)(3) of OBRA 87, inapplicable to the Arrangement.
Clarification of the label requirements of the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). - [1910.1200(f)]
The hazard warning labels attached to shipments of solder. - [1910.1200]
First Aid. - [1910.151(c); 1926.50]
Review of Policy on Section 4(b)(1) of the Act - [1975.1]
Labeling and material safety data sheet requirements under the Hazard Communication Standard. - [1910.1200]
Whether the Professional Medical Products, Inc., (PMP) Educational Assistance Program is an unfunded scholarship program within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. §2510.3-1(k) and, therefore, not an "employee welfare benefit plan" subject to reporting and disclosure or other requirements applicable to employee benefit plans covered by title I of ERISA.
Training certification requirements for 1910.120, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response. - [1910.120]
Sampling Procedures for Employees Using Air-Supplied Respirators - [1910.134]
Clarification concerning the relationship of several paragraphs within the 1910.120 Standard. - [1910.120]
Application of the Hazard Communication Standard to prescription drug products. - [1910.1200]
Whether the reimbursement of the Manville Corporation by the Manville-sponsored employee benefit plans for the direct expenses incurred by Manville, the plan sponsor, in providing administrative and asset management services to such plans would not constitute a prohibited transaction under section 406 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Jurisdiction and health risks for airport baggage x-ray scanning units and walk-through metal detectors. - [1975.1]
Seat belts for passengers in the rear of pickup trucks. - [1926.601]
Regulating employee exposure to wood dust. - [1910.1000]
Interpretation of the HCS as it relates to laboratories and requirements with respect MSDSs. - [1910.1200]
Oven inspections required by 1910.263(l)(9)(ii) and definitions of "Protecting Devices" and "Safety Devices". - [1910.263(l)(9)(ii); 1910.263(l)(9)(i)]
Rollover protective structures. - [1926.1000]
29 CFR 1910.1025 - Respiratory Protection - [1910.1025]
The adoption of an OSHA standard requiring the use of a flagman to direct in-plant locomotive movement.
A Ground-Fault Circuit Interrupter may not be used in lieu of a tester or meter that can test for continuity of the equipment grounding conductor. - [1926.404]
The Sky Genie device. - [1926.451]
Oven inspections required by 1910.263(l)(9)(ii). - [1910.263(l)(9)(ii)]
Definition of Hazardous Waste. - [1910.120]
1910.120 exemption for no exposure situations and tiered training requirments. - [1910.120]
Standards for a "cable grab" device that will not allow the free end of the wire rope to exit the hoist. - [1926.451]
Whether the South Florida Carpenters' Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund, established by the South Florida Carpenters' District Council, AFL-CIO, and various employers of carpenters and associations of employers of carpenters for the purpose of training and educating apprentice and journeyman carpenters, is subject to sections 408(b)(2) and 408(c)(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Whether the payment of $127,597 to purchase a retirement pension for Mr. Bray, the sole full-time employee of the South Florida Carpenters' Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust Fund, established by the South Florida Carpenters' District Council, AFL-CIO, and various employers of carpenters and associations of employers of carpenters for the purpose of training and educating apprentice and journeyman carpenters, constitutes "compensation" and "compensation for services rendered" for purposes of sections 408(b)(2) and 408(c)(2) of ERISA, respectively.
HCS requirements applicable to oil and gas producers. - [1910.1200]
HCS does not require a particular labeling system's code on the MSDS. - [1910.1200]
Whether the Union National Bank Incentive Bonus Plan which provides bonuses to employees for work performance is an employee pension benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(2) of title I of ERISA.
Establishment Listing of the Corporatewide Settlement Agreements. - [1910.1001]
Recommended changes for asbestos sampling from SLCAL. - [1910.1001]
Respiratory protection requirements for sour crude oil tank operations. - [1910.134]
MSDS distribution requirements for chemical manufacturers and importers, distributors and retail distributors. - [1910.1200(g)]
No. 9 wire is not adequate to support large walls, columns or piers. - [1926.703]
Whether the proposed Stouffer Hotel Management Corporation Vacation Pay Plan for certain Hourly Employees is an employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of section 3(1) of title I of ERISA.
Clarification on respirator use relating to the benzene standard. - [1910.1028]
Whether any of the transactions as described that occur subsequent to the formation of the partnership would constitute an “acquisition” of an equity interest within the meaning of regulation section 2510.3-101(f)(1) and would trigger a determination of significant equity participation by benefit plan investors.
Applicability of the HCS to office workers and copy machine operators. - [1910.1200]
Whether the fiduciary responsibility provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) would apply to proposed investments by employee benefit plans in Energy Investors Fund (EIF), a limited partnership or would the plan’s assets include only the limited partnership interest in EIF but not any of the underlying assets of the partnership.
Whether a purchase of stock by an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) from a corporation would violate section 4975(c)(1)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Whether the denial of a claim for an in-service hardship distribution under the terms of the First Citizens Bank & Trust Company Accumulation Plan be subject to the claims procedures requirements of section 503 of ERISA.
Asserting jurisdiction under State law over any occupational safety or health issue with respect to which no standard is in effect. - [1903.20 ; 1910.141]
Revised Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) Instruction, CPL 2-2. 38B CH-1 - [1910.1200]
DOL publishes their SCA Manual of Operations
Distributor's and retailer's responsibilities for providing MSDSs. - [1910.1200(g)]
Medical exams required under the asbestos standards. - [1910.1001(l); 1926.1101(m)]
Respiratory Protection for Mercury and Chlorine - [1910.134]
Formaldehyde Standard Clarification - [1910.1048(h)(1)(ii)]
Metal cyclones Supplied by SKC Inc. are not to be used for sampling respirable dust. - [1910.1000]
Request for a regulatory clarification concerning commercial carbon black. - [1910.1000]
Listing of decomposition products on MSDSs where they are present during normal use or only in the event of a fire. - [1910.1200(g)]
Labelling requirements for chemicals transported to another plant of the same company under the HCS. - [1910.1200(f)]
Distributor of health care products would be a "distributor" rather than a "retail distributor" under the HCS. - [1910.1200(g)]
Rubber protective equipment shall be in accordance with the provisions of (ANSI). - [1926.951]
Whether the proposed provisions of Utah Code Ann. §58-17-26 (the proposed Utah Act) are preempted under the general preemption provision of section 514(a) of title I of ERISA if it is applies, directly or indirectly, to employee benefit plans covered by title I of ERISA, and does not qualify for the exception established in section 514(b)(8) of ERISA.
Applicability of the HCS to crystalline silica, when bound in a polymeric compound and silicone rubber elastomers. - [1910.1200]
Application of FLSA section 7(k) to paramedics, firefighters, when are they volunteers, and what is sporadic and occasional employment under FLSA section 7(p)(2) and 29 CFR 553.30. Plus FLSA secrtion 13(a)(1) exempt status of training coordinator.
Interpretation of 1928.110(a) defining "Field Worker". - [1928.110]
SAE J2194 standard for Agricultural Tractor Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS). - [1928.51(b)(1)]
Applicability of the HCS to an employer using portland cement. - [1910.1200]
Letter to Paul W. Davis from Thomas Shepich concerning requirements of the HCS regarding manufacturer provision of MSDSs with first shipments of hazardous chemicals. - [1910.1200]
Response to request for OSHA endorsement of a distributor's program for downstream transmittal of MSDSs. - [1910.1200(g)]
Interpretation concerning dry type 5-15 kv transformers and definitions of the terms "acceptable" and "special equipment". - [1910.399]
Required annual inspections of bakery ovens. - [1910.263]
CPL 02-02-047 [CPL 2-2.47] - National - Compliance Dates for the Lead Standard 29 CFR 1910.1025, with Clarification of the Implementation Schedule - 01/05/1989
Rated Load Test for cranes as specified at 1910.179(k)(2). - [1910.179(k)(2)]
Whether a $500.000 loan from an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) established by Thomas E. Darragh, a current employee, shareholder, and member of the Board of Directors, to Darragh Company would violate section 4975(c)(1)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Are armed guards on armored trucks exempt from ovetime under FLSA section 13(b)(1) as drivers helpers.
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