One of Safety 2014's sessions covered nanotechnology in the workplace and what it means for the EHS professional.
Thomas E. Kramer, chair of ASSE's Professional Development Conference Planning Committee for this year's annual conference, said attendees from 48 countries are participating this year.
The report to the president was prepared in response to his Executive Order 13650, Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security, issued in August 2013.
In an AIHce 2014 keynote speech, Worker Rights Consortium Executive Director Scott Nova said follow-up inspections are now under way, and 16 facilities were found to be imminent hazards.
Speaking with reporters at AIHce 2014, the association's government affairs director said two recent actions offer some hope for AIHA's top regulatory priority.
At the start of AIHce 2014, the American Industrial Hygiene Assocation and American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists presented a variety of awards in various areas of industrial health and safety.
The agency released the results of its April impact inspections.
The agency cited a Bronx, N.Y., contractor for allegedly exposing workers to serious fall hazards and proposed $66,600 in fines.
The July 30 meeting in Washington, D.C., is called to gather information as the agency considers developing a standard about responders' safety following the West, Texas, explosion.
The state agency's citation includes one willful violation and two serious violations with total penalties of $67,500.
The agency launches the program to help the public get access to valuable FDA data.
The agency cites the company for violating the Federal Railroad Safety Act’s anti-discrimination provisions.
Yant Award winner Karen Messing's lecture covered standing and sitting in the workplace and how examining genders can benefit ergonomists.
A roundtable discussion at AIHce 2014 covers how to implement a PPE decontamination program.
Saying bio 3D manufacturing and the ability to manufactur with metal alloys already have been demonstrated, he urges his AIHce 2014 audience to prepare for new challenges.
"We believe our understanding will continue to support a control banding approach," the NIOSH expert told a crowded session's audience June 3.
Inconsistent and limited enforcement is one of the top challenges, they said.
NOAA has predicted the June 1-Nov. 30 Atlantic hurricane season will be near-normal or below-normal.
This year's calendar has flipped to June, and the enthusiasm is palpable among employees of MSA who are participating in the 2014 American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Expo here this week. June 14 is the big day -- the 100th anniversary of MSA's founding by two engineers who developed a safer alternative to miners' hats that utilized a flame.
AIHce kicked off early Monday morning, June 2, with an Opening General Session from Peter Leyden, the former Managing Editor at Wired Magazine, CEO of the Reinventors Network and a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.