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OSHA Launches Temp Worker Initiative

Dr. David Michaels announced it during DOL's 2013 Workers' Memorial Day ceremony.

Partners Re-Launch Construction Fall Prevention Campaign

OSHA, NIOSH, and CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training collaborate on this campaign with the National Occupational Research Agenda Construction Sector Council.

DOE’s START Program Grants Aid to Native Alaskan Villages

Five villages have received technology and funding to improve local energy efficiency efforts.



Contractor Fatality Data Highlight Governments' Role

For the first time, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2011 include data on fatal injuries involving contractors.

DOT Hosting Second Bicycle Safety Summit

The April 29 event is set in Minneapolis, where the number of bikes on the roads has risen by 56 percent during the past six years.

IAEA Reviews Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Plan

An expert team finished the initial review April 22 and will deliver a final report to Japan within a month.

Bangladesh Banks Warned: No Loans to Non-Compliant Garment Factories

Dr. Atiur Rahman, Bangladesh Bank governor, issued it during an April 28 speech at a banking seminar. Since then, deaths in the Rana Plaza building's collapse have risen to nearly 400.

DOT Nominee to Be Named Today

Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is the selection to replace Ray LaHood.

New Zealand Fish Processor Fined for Frostbite Injuries

Two Pelco employees, both with minimal experience, suffered frostbite while unloading fish from holds filled with chilled water.

New Battery Technology Makes Strides for Sustainability

Through the work of a Department of Energy research facility, partnered with Stanford University, new flow battery technology may pave the way for improvements in solar and wind energy.

Another Workers' Memorial Day Observed

Immediately following the West, Texas explosion that claimed 12 emergency responders and the Bangladesh garment factory collapse, which killed at least 348 workers, the event is marked around the world.

Oil & Gas Extraction's Fatality Rate 7 Times Higher Than U.S. Average

MMWR published an analysis of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2003-2010, which tabulated 128 deaths in offshore and on-shore operations.

Eleven Miners Killed in First Quarter, According to MSHA

Since the beginning of the year, there have been 11 fatalities in U.S. mines, including eight in coal mines.

Fifth Edition Construction Chart Book Published

CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training published the expanded edition, a 142-guide to the industry and its workers’ exposures to common hazards, including working at heights, noise above the NIOSH recommended exposure limit, and whole-body vibration.

Four Trucking Companies Shut Down by FMCSA

The companies were discovered to be reincarnations of a previously shut down trucking company.

WHO Launches Malaria Emergency Response in Southeast Asia

The agency also highlighted the threat of antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion, where the emergency response has begun.

NRC Sets Staff Meeting on Cumulative Effects of Regulations

The May 8 meeting follows instructions to the staff to consider more completely the overall impacts of multiple rules, orders, etc. on licensees' ability to focus on the most important safety items.

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