This Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance annual event will be held the week of July 7–13, 2024, with a focus on speeding. Law enforcement agencies across the country will be targeting unsafe driving behaviors by car, truck, and bus drivers.
The last day of July is the deadline for updating Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) registration information for registrants with a USDOT number ending in 7.
If operating in Alberta, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Saskatchewan, or Yukon, be sure to file second quarter fuel charge returns by Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
The second quarter 2024 IFTA filings are due at the end of the month following the end of the quarter: Wednesday, July 31, 2024.
Inspectors will be on the lookout for brake system violations.
This month-long event encourages the public to take precautions in the sun to protect their skin.
This month-long observation highlights the importance of vaccination for people of all ages.
This annual event reminds people to call 8-1-1 before any excavation project to ensure safe digging.
OSHA's Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep workers safe. This year's focus is mental health and wellbeing.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance will hold this event in Indianapolis, IN. Find more information at https://www.cvsa.org/events/.
This holiday celebrates America’s freedom from Great Britain’s rule. This patriotic holiday falls on a Thursday this year. Brush up on policies regarding vacation, holiday pay, attendance, Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, and any other time-off scenarios.
The last Friday in July celebrates those who keep the computer systems working. Remember, the “white collar” computer employee exemption is for systems analysts, programmers, software engineers, etc. To qualify, employees must design or create hardware or software. The salary basis rule (i.e., same weekly salary) does not apply. These employees can be paid hourly, and the exemption from overtime means they get the same hourly rate (not time and a half) after 40 hours. The exemption does not, however, include help desk technicians.
Begin planning for open enrollment, including distribution of the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC).
In 1971, Congress earmarked this day to honor women’s right to vote with the passage of the 19th amendment on August 26, 1920. With many states passing pay equity laws, today might be a good time to review pay practices to ensure both men and women have the same earning potential.
Celebrated on the first Monday of September, Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894. Although the Fall Equinox occurs a few weeks later (this year on September 22), Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer.
Each owner or operator of a facility, other than a commercial storer or a disposer of PCB waste, using or storing at any one time at least 45 kilograms (99.4 pounds) of PCBs contained in PCB Container(s), or one or more PCB Transformers, or 50 or more PCB Large High or Low Voltage Capacitors must develop and maintain at the facility, or a central facility provided they are maintained at that facility, all annual records and the written annual document log of the disposition of PCBs and PCB Items. The written annual document log must be prepared for each facility by July 1 covering the previous calendar year (January through December).
EPA requires community water systems to deliver a Consumer Confidence Report, also known as an annual drinking water quality report, to their customers. These reports provide Americans information about their local drinking water quality.
Each year, certain industrial facilities submit Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data to EPA. The data are due by July 1 and cover waste management activities that occurred during the previous calendar year. A facility is required to report if it meets chemical activity thresholds AND:
Each owner or operator of a facility (including high efficiency boiler operations) used for the commercial storage or disposal of PCBs and PCB Items must maintain annual records on the disposition of all PCBs and PCB items at the facility and prepare and maintain a written annual document log that includes the information required by 40 CFR 761.180(b)(2) for PCBs and PCB Items that were handled as PCB waste at the facility. The written annual document log must be prepared by July 1 for the previous calendar year (January through December).
DOT drug-testing laboratory statistical summaries for the first half of the year are due to be sent to employers by July 20. The report covers tests performed from January 1 through June 30 of the current year.
