Occupational Health & Safety

News & Articles

• Wal-Mart Hit with $365,000 Fine for Repeat HazardsFeb 09, 2012

  "The sizable fines proposed here reflect not only the seriousness of these conditions but the fact that several of them are substantially similar to hazards identified at nine other Wal-Mart locations in New York and eight other states," said Arthur Dube, OSHA's area director in Buffalo. more

• Norovirus Causes Most Hospital Infection Outbreaks, Study SaysFeb 07, 2012

• MSHA Begins Third Phase of 'Rules to Live By' Enforcement InitiativeFeb 03, 2012

• Worker Loses Hand in Shear Machine, Firm Fined $74,900Feb 01, 2012

• Visual Communications & Spill Containment Strategies and TechniquesFeb 01, 2012

• Worker's Burning at Metal Finishing Plant Leads to $51,680 FineJan 30, 2012

• EPA Penalizes Potato Company for Failing to Report Ammonia ReleaseJan 29, 2012

• MSHA Releases Results of December Impact InspectionsJan 28, 2012

• Fertilizer Producer Hit with $148,000 Fine for Process Safety Management ViolationsJan 28, 2012

• Unsafe Driving BASIC Factsheet PostedJan 25, 2012

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• Are Your Employees Prepared for Emergencies?

  Learn how to protect your employees and facility with help from the American Red Cross more

Videos

• A+A 2011: First visitor statements regarding the trade fair

  

  Finally, the trade fair A+A opened its doors on Oct. 18. Those interested have been anxious to enter the trade fair grounds of Messe Dusseldorf. Our reporter Emily Whigham spoke to visitors from all over the world. more

• Admin. Fugate on the Center for Domestic Preparedness

  

  FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate talks about the training available at the Center for Domestic Preparedness. Located in Anniston, Ala., it is the U.S Department of Homeland Security's only federally chartered Weapons of Mass Destruction training center. The center (http://cdp.dhs.gov) began operations in June 1998 as an all-hazards training center offering training on Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) weapons. more

• CSA Unveils New Protective Equipment Standard

  

  This 2011 video includes comments by CSA Standards President Bonnie Rose and others during a news conference about the importance of a new CBRN protective equipment standard for firefighters, police, paramedics, and health care workers. more

Whitepapers

• SPCC Compliance Solutions EPA Spill Prevention Control

  

  Simple ways to comply with EPA’s Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Requirements more

• Still trying to... Get The Lead Out

  

  The most critical steps toward lead hazard abatement are contaminant identification and removal. Researchers from CDC/NIOSH have developed two simple and reliable technologies to achieve these steps easily and without the need for extensive training. more

• Introduction to Advanced Back Calculation

  What comes to mind when there is a toxic chemical release? The most obvious responses involve evacuation or shelter in place of the people in the path of the plume. To predict the path, area, and severity of a plume impact, you need a dispersion model. The basic information required to initiate a dispersion model is weather data, identification of the chemical, and the rate of the chemical release. However, the Achille' heel of this information is the release rate specification: "How big is the hole?" SAFER Systems has developed and patented a unique scheme for estimating the release rate. The algorithm to implement the scheme is called Advanced Back Calculation® (ABC). The idea basically involves “reverse engineering” a dispersion model. While we usually input the release rate to the dispersion model and obtain the concentration field for the plume-impacted area, in ABC we utilize the concentration field data to estimate the release rate. more