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NTSB Sets Sept. 11 Meeting on Motorcycle Safety

While the safety board doesn't typically investigate motorcycle crashes, it conducted a motorcycle safety forum in 2006 and issued recommendations from that forum two years later. It has been more than 10 years since NTSB has issued new recommendations to help reduce motorcycle crashes and improve safety.

Safety+ Session Demonstrates Path to Employee Engagement

The exercise showed the presenters' point clearly: When managers allow employees to collaborate and strategize, they will find and use a successful solution. But putting pressure on employees to perform, with no input or collaboration allowed, is less likely to succeed.

PA Agencies Collaborate to Improve Highway Safety

PA Agencies Collaborate to Improve Highway Safety

With PennTIME, the agencies aim to reduce the time it takes to respond to and clear highway incidents and improve safety for first responders.



Survey Reveals Workplace Hand Washing Habits

Fifty-six percent of workers reported frequently or occasionally seeing work colleagues leave the restroom without washing their hands, according to Bradley Corporation’s annual Healthy Hand Washing Survey.

Labor Secretary Acosta Defends Compliance Assistance Approach

"Enforcement is critically important, but it will not solve every problem," he said at the VPPPA Safety+ symposium here at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center.

VPPPA Members Backing Codification Bills

They're supporting two identical bills before Congress, HR 1444 and S 1878, to codify VPP nationally and make it permanent.

OSHA Official Gives Update on VPP Plans

Eliminating backlogged applications at some OSHA regional offices and instituting a national process for handling them are two goals the agency is working on.

Safety+ Symposium Setting Records

Safety+ Symposium Setting Records

The VPPPA annual national conference has more than 3,500 attendees and its largest exhibitor number ever, Director-at-Large J.A. Rodriguez, Jr. and other officials reported Aug. 28.

Cal/OSHA Cites Outdoor Ad Company

Cal/OSHA issued three citations to Outfront Media totaling $32,435 in proposed penalties. Since 2015, the state agency has opened 11 inspections of outdoor and display advertising employers.

DOL Planning to Update Overtime Rule

DOL's news release did not elaborate or mention what the department has in mind, saying only that DOL "plans to update the Overtime Rule, and is interested in hearing the views and ideas of participants on possible revisions to the regulations."

Cincinnati Looking to Protect Bus Drivers and Stop Assaults

Cincinnati Looking to Protect Bus Drivers and Stop Assaults

The city is looking into adding plexiglass dividers between drivers and riders to cut down on assaults.

Florida Firefighters Receive Decontamination Kits

Florida Firefighters Receive Decontamination Kits

Each decontamination kit contains a 5-gallon bucket, detergents, scrub brushes, spray bottles, and hoses. These materials are used to help emergency responders wash soot and other possible carcinogens from their work gear.

Colorado Construction Companies Cited after Fatal Fall

Montes Construction LLC was previously cited in January 2018 for failure to provide fall protection, and now faces a willful citation.

Controlling the Uncontrolled: HAZWOPER Training at Cleanup Sites

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Controlling the Uncontrolled: HAZWOPER Training at Cleanup Sites

To protect personnel and manage compliance with OSHA’s HAZWOPER Standard at “uncontrolled hazardous waste sites” (e.g., Superfund sites), EHS professionals must have a full understanding of the Standard—especially the training requirements.

Senator Introduces Legislation Aimed at Improving Black Lung Detection

According to a recent study in the American Journal of Public Health, cases of black lung are at a 25-year high in Appalachian coal mining states, and as many as one in five underground coal miners in Appalachia has evidence of black lung.

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