The penalty for serious safety lapses is rising to $10,000 and the penalty for lacking a construction superintendent to a maximum of $25,000. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler also announced an enforcement blitz will target 1,500 sites in the next 90 days.
The "weight of evidence" approach helps manufacturers, importers, and employers evaluate scientific studies on the potential health hazards of a chemical and determine what data must be disclosed on the label and safety data sheet in order to comply with the Hazard Communication Standard.
It is the first volume in the ABS CyberSafety™ series, which covers best practices in four key areas: cybersecurity, automated systems safety, data management and software assurance.
It is the recommendation made to OSHA, asking the agency to promulgate a comprehensive combustible dust standard.
Schwan’s Global Supply Chain has been fined $172K by OSHA.
OSHA and NIOSH have teamed up to identify risks to oil and gas industry workers engaged in this practice.
The funds will help implement the food safety law and improve medical product safety and quality, said Acting Commissioner Dr. Stephen Ostroff, M.D.
From 2009 to 2013, there were 9,300 reported home structure fires in the United States started by candles, an average of about 25 reported fires per day, according to an NFPA report.
"Now we are about to see a steep increase in demand, and we must continue, we must even improve on the record of the last year. The industry that provides world-class wireless must provide world-class safety for its employees and contractors, period," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Feb. 11.
The owner of a building where the gas explosion occurred March 26, 2015, and four others were indicted Feb. 11. They had set up an illegal gas delivery system, authorities announced.
OSHA has issued Elan Chemical Co. of Newark, N.J., 17 citations.
OSHA has issued multiple citations to the Yannuzzi Group of Kinnelon, N.J.
Mayor Jim Kenney and the city's acting fire commissioner are ending the current practices of rotating firefighters through stations and temporarily closing firehouses to cut costs, steps taken during the administration of Kenney's predecessor.
Convened in Jacksonville, the hearings will examine the loss of the container ship El Faro and all of its 33 crewmembers last October; NTSB investigated the sinking and is participating in the hearings.
The board has asked PHMSA to require that lithium batteries be physically separated from other flammable hazardous materials stowed on cargo aircraft and also to set maximum loading density requirements that limit the quantities of lithium batteries and flammable hazardous materials on board.
At least 17 are also critically injured after two trains collided head-on.
Key numbers for EH&S professionals are the proposed $595 million for OSHA and $397 million for MSHA. According to DOL, the OSHA budget provides resources to increase safety and security at chemical facilities and improve response procedures when major incidents occur.
Willie E. May, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST's director, noted that employees how have five times more lab space "for collaborative advanced information technology projects."
The construction of a collapsed apartment tower faces scrutiny after a deadly earthquake.
Top officials for the organization have called for an action plan to reassess the agency's approach to opioid medications. FDA also will convene an expert advisory committee before approving any new drug application for an opioid that does not have abuse-deterrent properties.