About Academy of Occupational Health & Risk Sciences

The Academy of Occupational Health and Risk Sciences explains workplace safety standards plainly for the people responsible for them: safety managers, HR leads and the owners of small businesses.

One standard, hazard or program per article, drawn from OSHA, NIOSH and the consensus bodies: what the rule requires, who it applies to, how to comply, what the citation history shows, and which PPE and controls meet it. Recordkeeping and reporting, silica, noise, heat, ergonomics, lockout and the written programs an employer is expected to have are all here.

Each reference article carries the date it was last updated. Case studies come from published enforcement records only.