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ACE and 2G Environmental Collaborate

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:19:24 GMT

by Aviation Continuing Education Inc..

Aviation Continuing Eduction, Inc. and 2G Environmental, LLC an Atlanta based corporation are collaborating to provide the aviation industry with Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) and Storm Water Pollution Prevention (SWPP) training via our online portal. Each of the courses is avaialble for $99.00 annually and can be viewed an unlimited number of times from the same computer so you can train your entire staff as well as those new faces before they assume their duties.

Solis announces new OSHA enforcement initiatives

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:13:18 GMT

by Aviation Continuing Education Inc..

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced a number of major new OSHA enforcement initiatives during her April 14 keynote address at the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety. OSHA currently requires that training provisions under OSHA standards be provided in a language or a form that workers can understand. OSHA further requires that its Compliance Officers check and verify that workers have received the training required by OSHA standards. The Agency will expand upon this and effective on April 28 -- Workers Memorial Day -- Secretary Solis explained, "OSHA will also assure that its Compliance Officers check and verify not only that the training has been provided, but that it was provided in a format that the workers being trained can understand." The Secretary also announced a new pilot program where OSHA will work with local b uilding inspectors to assure worker safety and health protection. In construction, the four leading causes of worker deaths are falls, electrocution, being crushed or caught between and being struck. Inspectors participating in this pilot program will notify OSHA when they observe unsafe work conditions leading to these four major causes of workplace fatalities.

May 3 event marks return of NAOSH Week

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:12:25 GMT

by Aviation Continuing Education Inc..

OSHA will hold a kickoff event on Monday, May 3, at the Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., to mark the annual North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week. More than 5,000 people lost their lives from on-the-job injuries in 2008. Every year during the first full week of May, NAOSH participants raise public awareness about the importance of reducing the number of work-related deaths to zero. This year's focus is on the importance of creating and maintaining safe workplaces. The kickoff event will feature the American Society of Safety Engineers' "Safety-on-the-Job" poster contest in which children, ages 5-14, create illustrated safety messages that could help their parents and other workers return home each day healthy and unhurt. OSHA, ASSE, and the Canadian Society for Safety Engineering partner with se veral organizations representing thousands of businesses to promote NAOSH Week. Assistant Secretary Michaels, ASSE President C. Christopher Patton, and CSSE Secretary Andrew Cooper will speak at the event. Visit the NAOSH Week Web site for more information, or contact Morgan Seuberling at seuberling.morgan@dol.gov.

Revising the Notification Requirements in the Exposure Determination Provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium Standards

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:17:10 GMT

by Aviation Continuing Education Inc..

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, and 1926
[Docket No. OSHA-H054a-2006-0064]
RIN 1218-AC43

Revising the Notification Requirements in the Exposure
Determination Provisions of the Hexavalent Chromium Standards
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA);
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: On February 28, 2006, OSHA published a final rule for
Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium (Cr(VI). Public Citizen
Health Research Group (Public Citizen) and other parties petitioned for
review of the standard in the United States Court of Appeals for the
Third Circuit. The court denied the petitions for review on all but one
issue. The Third Circuit remanded the employee notification
requirements in the standard's exposure determination provisions for
further consideration. More specifically, the court directed the Agency
to either provide an explanation for its decision to limit employee
notification requirements to circumstances in which Cr(VI) exposures
exceed the permissible exposure limit (PEL) or take other appropriate
action with respect to that paragraph of the standard. After reviewing
the rulemaking record on this issue, and reconsidering the provision in
question, OSHA has decided to revise the notification requirements, by
means of this direct final rule, to require employers to notify
employees of the results of all exposure determinations.

DATES: This direct final rule will become effective on June 15, 2010
unless significant adverse comment is submitted (transmitted,
postmarked, or delivered) by April 16, 2010. Comments to this direct
final rule, hearing requests, and other information must be submitted
(transmitted, postmarked, or delivered) by April 16, 2010. All
submissions must bear a postmark or provide other evidence of the
submission date.

Full Article: http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FEDERAL_REGISTER&p_id=21407

Aviation Continuing Education Lead The Way Again.

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:31:50 GMT

by Aviation Continuing Education Inc..

As we roll out over 75 OSHA training courses for aviation general industry, it seems our competitors are attempting to do the same, yet claiming again as they did when we were the first to have the Supervisory Fuel Safety and Inspection course meeting 14 CFR 139.321 requirements, that they are leading the way. Don't be fooled. ACE is the new leader in online aviation safety training. In the future our new course offerings will not be publicized until they are internet ready. Let's see how long it takes them to catch up then.

Stay tuned for more information on our new course offerings. As always, please contact us if you have training needs that are not met on our site. We'll gladly entertain their development.

Have course information that you want to provide to the aviation industry? ACE can assist you in development of these materials for online disbursment. Give us a call to discuss the possibilities. 877-322-7139