Safety Agency Keeps Eye on Manufacturing Risks for Amputations

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration renewed a nationwide program that conducts inspections of manufacturing facilities.

The National Emphasis Program on Amputations in Manufacturing Industries aims to find and reduce hazards that could lead to amputations and injuries in the manufacturing sector. Under the renewed program, OSHA will conduct inspections of companies using machinery that poses risk of amputation to ensure compliance of safety practices, like whether its properly guarded.

The agency plans to remove employers from the programmed inspection list that didn’t report an amputation and that had an inspection in the past two years under the previous ...