Dr. David Michaels announced it during DOL's 2013 Workers' Memorial Day ceremony.
OSHA, NIOSH, and CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training collaborate on this campaign with the National Occupational Research Agenda Construction Sector Council.
Five villages have received technology and funding to improve local energy efficiency efforts.
For the first time, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data for 2011 include data on fatal injuries involving contractors.
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.
An expert team finished the initial review April 22 and will deliver a final report to Japan within a month.
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.
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is the selection to replace Ray LaHood.
Two Pelco employees, both with minimal experience, suffered frostbite while unloading fish from holds filled with chilled water.
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.
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.
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.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 11 fatalities in U.S. mines, including eight in coal mines.
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.
The companies were discovered to be reincarnations of a previously shut down trucking company.
The agency also highlighted the threat of antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion, where the emergency response has begun.
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.