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TB Fight Only Half-Won, UN Secretary-General Says

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon observed World Tuberculosis Day on March 24 by calling for increased and united global efforts to end the disease by 2030, adding that it will kill 1.5 million people this year alone.

AIHA Announces 2016 Board Election Results

New members will be inducted at the Annual Business Meeting at the 2016 AIHce conference and expo in Baltimore.

NFPA Webinar to Aid Volunteer FF Recruiting, Community Engagement

Country music star Craig Morgan, Firehouse Magazine, and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation helped to launch the Step Up and Stand Out campaign earlier this year to recognize current volunteers and encourage citizens to investigate becoming volunteer firefighters.

First 'Deepwater Horizon' Movie Trailer Released

The debate already has begun about whether the movie cynically exploits the families of the workers who died or portrays them and the catastrophe honestly.

MSHA Chief Highlights Accomplishments and Challenges in Mine Safety

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main made remarks in Nashville at the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association convention.

Lack of Training to Blame after Logger's Death: OSHA

According to BLS, 77 deaths in the forestry industry were recorded in 2014.

Tethered logging operations must be planned by the operator and the competent person on how to safely operate on slopes more than 50 percent, taking into consideration the experience of the operator; limitations of the machine and soil conditions; direction of travel; requirements for turning the machine on slopes; weather; load sizes; method and adequacy of anchorage; and any other adverse conditions.

Oregon OSHA Revises Guidelines for Tethered Logging

Employers intending to use winch- or cable-assisted systems for steep slope logging must ensure that the harvesting machine was specified by its manufacturer for operation on slopes of more than 40 or 50 percent or seek a research variance before using the harvesting machine above its slope limit with a tethered system.

OSHA Releases Silica Rule

OSHA has said the proposed rule "would bring protections into the 21st century" because it currently enforces 40-year-old permissible exposure limits for crystalline silica in general industry, construction, and shipyards.



OSHA Finds Workers Exposed to More than Two Dozen Serious Violations at Sawmill

Kenneth Snider Inc. has been fined $59,000 for the violations.

Lancaster Workers Exposed to Excessively High Levels of Lead, Cadmium: OSHA

OSHA has cited J. Walter Miller Co. for 12 violations.

Warnings Added to Immediate-Release Opioids

"We know that there is persistent abuse, addiction, overdose mortality, and risk of NOWS associated with IR opioid products," said Dr. Douglas Throckmorton, M.D., deputy center director of regulatory programs at FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. "Today, we have taken an important next step in clarifying and making more prominent the known risks of IR opioid medications."

@FDNYAlerts

NYC Fire Department Launches 24-Hour Twitter Handle

The department cautioned that @FDNYAlerts does not replace 911 calls and is not a means for reporting emergencies to the department.

AIHA Honors Two Yant Award Recipients for the First Time

The awardees will be honored at the 2016 AIHce conference.

OSHA Cites Contractor Twice in Three Months for Trench Cave-in Dangers

The agency has proposed more than $64K in fines.

FDA stated that, in determining that these products are dangerous and present an unreasonable and substantial risk, it considered all available evidence, which included a thorough review of the available scientific literature and comments received on a February 2011 Federal Register notice.

FDA to Ban Most Powdered Medical Gloves

The ban would not apply to powdered radiographic protection gloves, because FDA is not aware of any powdered radiographic protection gloves that are currently on the market; in addition, non-powdered surgeon gloves and non-powdered patient examination gloves will not be included in the ban and will remain Class I medical devices.

IKEA Recalls 30,000 Lamps for Shock Hazard

Three reports of minor shock have been received worldwide. Consumers are asked to immediately stop using the recalled lamps and return them to any IKEA store for a full refund.

BSEE, NASA Reach Five-Year Agreement

BSEE will benefit from using probabilistic risk assessment, a technique to quantitatively model risk that was used in the modeling of the space shuttle program and is currently being used for the International Space Station and Orion deep space capsule programs.

FAA on March 18 released a new video reminding visitors that the National Cherry Blossom Festival is a "no drone zone." There is a ban in effect against flying any type of unmanned aircraft without specific approval in the District of Columbia and cities and towns within a 15-mile radius of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

FAA's Cherry Blossom Festival Caveat: No Drones

FAA on March 18 released a new video reminding visitors that the National Cherry Blossom Festival is a "no drone zone." There is a ban in effect against flying any type of unmanned aircraft without specific approval in the District of Columbia and cities and towns within a 15-mile radius of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

Washington State Cabinet Maker Fined $107,000

Inspectors also found workers had to enter a dust-collection silo referred to as a "bag house" to perform routine maintenance without the required confined space safety precautions being in place, so 13 of the serious violations involved confined space hazards.

UK Industries Collaborating on Silica Dust Outreach

They agreed to work together to share best practices aimed at lowering workers’ exposures.

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