"The final rule updates 33-year old regulations and establishes clear requirements for responsible surface coal mining that will protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests over the next two decades," according to the agency.
Changes to the nutrition facts table include making the serving size more consistent so it's easier to compare similar foods and also make it realistic so that it reflects the amount that Canadians typically eat in one sitting.
Last year, work-related illness affected around 1.3 million workers and nearly 26 million working days were lost because of it, costing more than £9 billion, or about $11 billion in U.S. dollars, annually for new cases alone.
The agency had recommended that PHMSA require that excess flow valves be installed in all new and renewed gas service lines, regardless of a customer's classification, when operating conditions are compatible with readily available valves, and a 2016 final rule has accomplished that.
The report describes a cluster of 60 cases of PMF identified in current and former coal miners at one Eastern Kentucky radiology practice during January 2015–August 2016, a cluster that was not uncovered by the national surveillance program.
No one was hurt on the flight, which made an emergency landing in Arkansas.
The goal is to broaden career opportunities in registered apprenticeships for under-represented groups.
Fatal exposures to electricity were down in 2015, but fatalities due to exposure to temperature extremes rose, while occupational deaths from nonmedical use of drugs or alcohol, unintentional overdose, increased 45 percent in 2015 to 165, and there were 136 workers who died in incidents associated with confined spaces in 2015.
Winter weather this week across the Midwest and New England is causing agencies to remind motorists to drive carefully and safely, now and throughout the holiday season.
A temporary worker was fatally crushed by a robotic machine just two weeks before her wedding in JUne 2016, and OSHA has cited the host employer and two staffing agencies, proposing a total of $2.5 million in penalties.
"This is an important study. It shows that the rate of microcephaly and other fetal malformations related to Zika is similar among babies born in the United States – whose mothers were infected during travel to a dozen countries with active Zika transmission – to the estimated rate in Brazil," said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden.
The regulations include well integrity, wellbore tubing, and casing.
The website's annual contest attracted entries in seven categories, including environmental management, green technology, health and safety/cleanup, software/SaaS, soil and groundwater, wastewater, and water.
The rule grants three of the four APRN roles the ability to practice to the full extent of their education and training.
The agency is urging the driving public to "drive sober or get pulled over."
The self-balancing boards contain a lithium-ion battery pack that can catch fire or explode, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported Dec. 13.
Critical issues that must be addressed range from the culture to recruitment and retention, funding, personal health, and safety protocols, the USFA/NVFC report stresses.
The proposed rulemaking would allow for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication.
Data Comm helps reduce delays by making pilot-controller communications shorter and more accurate, FAA announced.
The agency reviewed the decommissioning funding status report for Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc.'s plant last year and found that it met NRC's requirements, Region III Senior Public Affairs Officer Viktoria Mitlyng explained in a Dec. 12 blog post.