Its safety advisory notice says material contaminated or suspected of being contaminated with Ebola is regulated as a Category A infectious substance under the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
The participating countries agreed to boost female labor force participation rates by 25 percent by 2025. Doing so will bring an estimated 100 million additional women into the labor force by that year.
Southern Grouts and Mortars Inc. has been cited for eight violations after OSHA's Fort Worth area office investigated.
The program will include programmed health inspections at funeral homes, chemical and product manufacturing plants, printing facilities, and outpatient care centers.
Former Massey Energey Co. CEO Donald L. Blankenship has been indicted by a West Virginia federal grant jury on charges that he conspired to violate mandatory federal mine safety and health standards, conspired to impede federal mine safety officials, made false statements to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and committed securities fraud.
OSHA also found that workers weren't outfitted with the proper personal protective equipment to do the cleanup.
The agreement aims to reduce misclassification of employees.
The agency's inspectors served more than 200 stop work notices during a month-long inspection initiative. The most common failure they found was employers' not providing basic safety measures for employees working at height -- 42 percent of all enforcement notices served cited this.
The issue's Jumpseat department is written by Flight Standards Service Director John Duncan and reviews some winter weather wisdom, and its Checklist explains how to reduce the risk of carburetor fires.
OSHA has fined the aluminum company $47,600.
OSHA announced it has cited the company for seven serious safety violations.
The Aqua Lung buoyancy compensators with SureLock II weight pocket handles are being recalled in the United States and Canada; an additional 110,000 were recalled in the United States last year.
After a winter storm dumped heavy snow on Minnesota and brought high winds and plummeting temperatures to the Midwest, both agencies posted reminders about staying safe in cold conditions.
It will concéntrate on enforcing REACH Annex XVII restrictions, with inspections taking place during 2016.
But its new report did show a relationship between increasing levels of wind turbine noise and annoyance with some features – including vibration and aircraft warning lights on top of the turbines.
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez was joined by ambassadors of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica for the signing ceremony.
The equipment is Ebola-specific and is based on guidance CDC issued on Oct. 20.
The costs rose between 2002 and 2011 five times faster than the cost of treating other types of cancers, according to the agency's new study.
The U.S. Postal Service announced Nov. 10 that it had recently learned of a cyber security intrusion into some of its information systems. Employees' information, not customers' data, may have been compromised.
The $99,345 citation against National Distribution Services Inc. follows an investigation into an explosion at the company's Corona facility. It killed one employee and severely burned another.