One of the safety industry's best annual events again visits the Mile High City next year. (ASSE's Safety 2012 conference also was in Denver.)
OSHA has issued 18 serious violations to Terrill Manufacturing Co. of San Angelo, Texas, and two to A.L. Staffing Inc., which provided the workers.
This year, one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning, according to the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
During the 2015 Fourth of July enforcement period, DPS troopers made 496 DWI arrests and issued 7,211 speeding citations, 1,156 seat belt/child safety seat citations, and 1,007 no insurance citations, in addition to making 268 fugitive arrests and 187 felony arrests.
The agency again reminds employers to protect workers from hazards while manufacturing, storing, transporting, displaying, and selling fireworks.
These single-industry contracts will support the growth of apprenticeship programs in health care, construction, transportation and logistics, energy, manufacturing, and information and communications technology. DOL also will award as many as four multi-industry contracts to organizations to help employers from different sectors grow their apprenticeship programs and work together to create a pipeline of skilled workers.
When people feel safe, creativity flourishes and problem solving is simplified. Issues are addressed on a timely basis rather than being swept under the rug or put off till they become crises.
Not only will these systems help to ensure employee safety, they can make it easier for facilities to stay in compliance with OSHA and ANSI standards.
Employers can see that employee training, while part of the first and final deadlines in OSHA's GHS transition period, is actually an ongoing obligation.
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