The DOT agency's advisory bulletin asks pipeline owners and operators to look for deficiencies like the ones NTSB found in Enbridge's program after a large pipeline spill in July 2010.
This report is welcome news, but overall, the numbers have not improved in the past 15 years.
The data has prompted the agency to address a recent spike in worker deaths.
The agency has cited American Plant Food Corp. for 12 violations.
ASTM has formed a task group to develop a specification standard for them, Selcen Kilinc-Balci, a physical scientist for NIOSH's National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory, reported on the agency’s Science Blog.
The newly posted guides are part of the National Fire Protection Association's Electric Vehicle Safety Training project.
The agency has renewed its 2007 partnership with the El Paso chapter of the national organization.
The consumer advisory encourages motorists to share the road with motorcyclists to reduce the number of annual highway fatalities.
The exhibition opens May 11. It will examine how we assess risks from natural hazards and how more disaster-resilient communities can be developed.
The students received $5,000 scholarships and will attend AIHce 2014 courtesy of the 3M Personal Safety Division.
The U.S. Forest Service and Interior Department have only $1.4 billion available for firefighting, however. The wildfire season is becoming longer and more intense.
San Antonio's Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center is the site for AIHce 2014, the year's best industrial hygiene conference.
The partnership launches an eight-month national safety campaign.
The company recalled its YoBaby Pear/Peach yogurts because of possible coliform contamination.
The Transport Agency is trying this on the 130-kilometer Southern Coromandel Loop. Only 3 percent of the vehicles that travel it are motorcycles, but from 2008 to 2012, motorcyclists were involved in 44 percent of all fatal and serious injury crashes on it.
The agency issued 152 citations, 14 orders and one safeguard during the month.
The 3M Petrifilm Salmonella Express System was just one of the safety products honored April 30 in the 2014 Edison Awards competition. Products from Kimberly-Clark, Sonomax, and Starkey Hearing Technologies also won.
OSHA has cited Five Star Commercial Roofing and issued nearly $50,000 in fines for allegedly exposing its workers to fall hazards.
The agency reminds employers in the state to ensure their outdoor workers are protected as the temperatures rise.
The FDA entered a consent decree with a New York cheese producer due to listeria contamination in its products.