Leaders who think in terms of "repeat offenders" are unlikely to consider contributors other than the ill-intended motivations or habits of those injured. Besides not solving the problem, this approach often backfires.
At first glance, wet scrubbers may appear to be preferable because they inherently control the combustibility of a dust.
Provide relevant consequences. Consequences will assist in showing your workers what is in it for them.
Use these practical tips and best practices to create and maintain an effective emergency response plan. Frequent practice drills are essential.
A hazard risk assessment is a necessary step to take before conducting a wear trial. Only when the risk assessment is completed should the customer conduct a wear trial of fabrics that will meet the anticipated energy levels.
CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee divides ATDs into those two categories, diseases requiring Airborne Precautions and diseases requiring Droplet Precautions.
The National Safety Council put it even more succinctly, so that no one could miss the gravity of this situation: 52 people in America are dying from prescription opioid overdoses every day.
Even if we can't stop the production of deadly gases during a fire, we can take precautions to protect ourselves.
The steel bar manufacturer now faces $121K in fines.
Waste Control Specialists LLC announced April 28 it has filed an application with the NRC to build and manage a Consolidated Interim Storage Facility.
At least 11 people aboard died in the April 29 crash of a helicopter coming from the Gullfaks B field in the Norwegian North Sea.
Exide Technologies also received an alert letter for a lack of heat-stress program.
The Obama administration has also requested $2.3 billion in the FY2017 budget.
The meeting is for the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee.
ACA has supported two bills: the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, S. 697, which passed the U.S. Senate on Dec. 17, 2015, and a House of Representatives bill, H.R. 2576, which passed June 23, 2015, on a 398-1 vote.
Nicholas DeJesse, director of the agency's Philadelphia Area Office, said "A developer and contractor that hire this company are truly rolling the dice on worker safety. Amid the hazards we have cited, two Berlin Builders' employees suffered falls in 2015. This employer must make immediate changes before something worse happens."
One willful citation was issued to Jay Management Inc.
Lynar Corp. faces $54,000 in fines.
The agency reports that recent data shows construction, agriculture, logging, and jobs that require driving are among the most hazardous jobs for Washington workers, and that falls continue to be a leading cause of workers' deaths. Six work-related deaths in 2015 were homicides.
Other high-risk work groups cited in the report are oil and gas extraction workers (144 deaths in 2014), health care workers who may face workplace violence hazards (765 occupational fatalities in 2014 were attributed to workplace violence), and Latino workers (804 deaths in 2014 and a fatality rate of 3.7 per 100,000 workers).