Occupational Safety Health Administration

Rabine Group Employees Complete OSHA Training for Work Safety

Schaumburg, IL, June 17, 2011 --( PR.com )-- Rabine Group employees recently attended “OSHA 10 Hour for Construction,” Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)’s training course designed to help employees create the safest work environment possible. Rabine Group Project Managers have been encouraged take the 30-hour training course to ensure optimum safety on the job. Close to a hundred Rabine Group employees and executives participated in a two-day course that took place at a state-of-the-art training facility at the Rabine Group headquarters in Schaumburg. The training program included three courses that were taught in English and one in Spanish, designed to help employees recognize and overcome hazards that they may encounter at paving construction and maintenance projects. The OSHA 10 Hour for Construction discussed how both the employer and employee can advocate for a safe work environment. The OSHA Focus Four is a topic that teaches employees ways to recognize and avoid fall hazards and electrical hazards, as well as, what to do in a situation where they are caught between or struck by hazards. Employees also learned about power tool safety, excavation hazards, health hazards in construction and materials handling hazards. Bob Wasberg, Rabine Group’s Safety Manager, facilitated the training. Bob Wasberg says, “Interestingly, our customers are demanding companies with highly trained employees and good safety records. Some have mentioned that it is difficult to find paving companies with good safety programs and training that meet the approval of their corporate safety department. This commitment to safety will clearly differentiate us from other paving construction and maintenance companies.” With a firm commitment to quality, consistency, and customer satisfaction, the Rabine Group is a premiere service provider for paving, roofing, petroleum and other construction needs. The Rabine Group companies include: Rabine Paving, Rabine Paving America, UltraLot, Pavement Solutions, Roofing Solutions America, R. Commercial Roofing Solutions, R.W. Roofing Solutions, Rabine Snow Pros, Pipe View, Palatine Oil Company,and Rabine Residential, as well as, the Black Hawk Run Golf Club, and the Rabine Group Foundation.

Occupational Safety & Health Administration Issues Warning ...

Certain hair care products, primarily those used by hair care professionals for smoothing and straightening hair may produce formaldehyde even if that compound is not listed as an ingredient in the products, according to a warning issued today by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR).

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“Salons need to make sure that high-risk products are used carefully to limit exposure to dangerous chemicals,” said Jay Stewart, Director of the Division of Professional Regulation at IDFPR. “Further, some imported hair care products are not labeled appropriately, and their use may expose licensed cosmetologists to formaldehyde without warning.”

Formaldehyde has been found in salons in California and Oregon that used Brazilian Blowout Acai Professional Smoothing Solution and Brazilian Blowout Professional Brazilian Blowout Solution. These and other keratin-based hair smoothing products contain formaldehyde dissolved (and chemically reacted) in water and other ingredients in the product. Because of the way the formaldehyde reacts in these products, some manufacturers, importers, or distributors might list other names for formaldehyde on product information or might claim that the product is “formaldehyde-free.” Formaldehyde might be listed as methylene glycol, formalin, methylene oxide, paraform, formic aldehyde, methanal, oxomethane, oxymethylene, or CAS Number 50-00-0. All of these are names for formaldehyde under OSHA’s Formaldehyde standard.

Formaldehyde can be released from hair smoothing products that list any of these names on the label and workers can breathe it in or absorb it through their skin. Workers can be exposed to formaldehyde during the entire hair straightening process, especially when heat is applied (e.g. blow-drying, flat ironing).

For more information about the risks of formaldehyde and how salons can protect their cosmetologists while using these products, visit http://www.osha.gov .