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First-Time EHS Software Buyer Fears: How to Overcome Them and Ensure a Successful Technology Program

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First-Time EHS Software Buyer Fears: How to Overcome Them and Ensure a Successful Technology Program

There are a lot of unknowns when it comes to buying enterprise environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) software for the first time.

Two Contractors Cited in Florida Double Fatality Case

The OSHA citations against PCL Construction Services, Inc. and Universal Engineering Sciences, Inc. say their use of the bolts and brackets and not the approved shoring towers created a collapse hazard on the seventh floor of a hotel under construction in Orlando last year.

Transportation's Future Eyed at SXSW This Week

The agency is hosting five interactive sessions and a demonstration room at the hotel on March 12 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Experts will be on hand to discuss featured projects.

AIHA Announces Board Election Results

The new board members will be inducted at the association's annual business meeting May 22 at the AIHce EXP 2019 conference in Minneapolis.

BARDA Funding Development of First Marburg Vaccine

The Marburg virus is part of the family of hemorrhagic fever viruses that includes Ebola. The virus causes a similar illness to that of Ebola and occurs most often in Africa. The Marburg virus was recognized in 1967 and, since then, multiple outbreaks have occurred with high mortality rates, most recently in 2017.

OSHRC Affirms Citation in Workplace Violence Case

The case involves a serious violation of the General Duty Clause for which Integra Health Management, an Owings Mills, Md.-based social service employer, was cited.

WorkSafeBC Adds Slip & Fall to Manufacturing High Risk Strategy

The Manufacturing High Risk Strategy was introduced in 2018. It addresses seven strategic focus areas: machine guarding and lockout, powered tools, hand tools (knives), material handling (falling objects), falls from elevation, falls on the same level, and mobile equipment.

NTSB Still Analyzing Recorders from Houston Cargo Plane Crash

The agency reported the airplane's crew were in communication with air traffic control and were being provided radar vectors for the runway 26L approach into George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Crew communications consistent with a loss of control of the aircraft began approximately 18 seconds prior to the end of the recording.



New App Promotes Workplace Safety

The Vision Zero app promotes ISSA's "7 golden rules — for zero accidents and healthy work." It is quick and easy to use and shows the workplace safety and health status of an organization, according to EU-OSHA.

MIOSHA Signs New Alliance Agreement with MTMIC

This is the fourth time the Manufacturing Technology Mutual Insurance Company has renewed its alliance with the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

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