"A high sustainability performance rating rings hollow if the business fails to keep its workers safe and healthy," said Kathy A. Seabrook, chair of the CSHS board of directors. "New levels of collaboration and compromise are needed among sustainability reporting groups if we are to significantly reduce workplace injuries, illnesses, and deaths."
The company's board of directors has named CEO DG Macpherson to assume the additional role of chairman of the board effective Oct. 1, 2017.
It is a cash and stock transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $3.27 billion, including approximately $416 million of CH2M net debt, the companies announced Aug. 2.
DOJ and EPA announced the settlement this week of claims that the company violated Clean Air Act provisions intended to prevent accidental releases of chemicals.
Issues were identified at the Watts Bar plant, but TVA has agreed to implement actions at its Browns Ferry and Sequoyah nuclear plants and in its corporate offices.
Flight traffic in July 2017 was up about 5 percent from 2016. July 2017's millionth flight milestone was passed on July 30.
"Our goal is to ensure citizens are safe while traveling on our freeways," said Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson. "There is absolutely no reason why someone should engage in aggressive driving behaviors that can lead to violence resulting in unnecessary injuries or even death."
Michigan State University is getting $3.2 million to establish a registry of Flint, Mich., residents who were exposed to lead-contaminated water from the Flint water system during 2014-2015. The money is the first installment of a four-year, $14.4 million grant.
How fitting that one of the best-known symbols of the modern U.S. safety industry is adding stainless steel suicide prevention nets.
OSHA recommends basing a lab's control strategies on the hierarchy of controls.