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In its comments concerning the final recordkeeping and reporting rule OSHA noted that some businesses expressed concern that OSHA planned a wholesale ban on drug testing. The agency reassured employers that the final rule does not ban drug testing. “However, the final rule does prohibit employers from using drug testing (or the threat of drug...

A great majority of purchasers find quality worse than other recovered paper The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) today released the final results of a study revealing paper mill buyers perceive scrap paper generated by Mixed Waste Processing Facilities (Dirty MRFs) is “generally deemed unusable by pulp and paper mills.” The report, “Mixed Waste...

OSHA has kicked off its summer campaign to inform employers and employees about the dangers of working in the heat. The campaign will continue its annual outreach to highlight how heat-related worker fatalities are entirely preventable. In 2014 alone, 2,630 workers suffered from heat illness and 18 died from heat stroke and related causes on...

OSHA recently published its spring semiannual regulatory agenda. It provides a list of all regulatory actions that are under active consideration by the agency. Regulations of particular interest to ReMA members are: The final rule on preventing slips, trips and falls and which is scheduled for publication in August. Beryllium continues to be in the...

(Washington, DC)– The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), in partnership with JASON Learning, has relaunched its K-12 recycling curricula that couples updated lesson plans with a comprehensive integration within JASON Learning’s full online STEM curricula. The curricula relaunch is part of the ISRI’s youth outreach initiative that aims to spread the recycling message and...