The current federal highways and infrastructure funding law requires the agency to issue final regulations by Oct. 1. It will host a March 22 listening session to solicit ideas.
A Department of Labor investigation showed that Austin Capital Management mishandled retirement and benefit plan funds by indirectly investing with Bernie Madoff.
The two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., concerns how to motivate pesticide workers to use the best personal protective technology.
The state House and Senate transportation committees are considering HB 0894 this week. It would allow motorcycle drivers and passengers 21 and older not to wear a helmet.
Starting Oct. 1, employers no longer need to utilize trainers approved by the Health and Safety Executive.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes has frostbite on four fingers of his left hand and will be evacuated from Antarctica, but the remaining team plans to continue trying to achieve a winter crossing.
Data from the BLS Current Population Survey indicate absences were higher in January 2013 than in any month since February 2008.
Compared to January 2012, total chemical production in all regions was up 0.9 percent and remained ahead year-over-year in all regions except the Mid-Atlantic and West Coast regions, which were off from a year ago.
These new mandates should help prevent offshore drilling disasters like the BP oil spill in 2010.
Remembered for his stands on smoking and AIDS, he may have been the most famous surgeon general in U.S. history.
Ann Sherry has been appointed to replace Tom Phillips by the country's minister for employment and workplace relations.
U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee, will chair a Feb. 26 hearing about her bill.
Strikes on aircraft in the United States haven't abated, according to an article by Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Stephen Lehmann.
It responds to the recent lifting of a yearlong moratorium on research on the avian influenza virus.
Its summary indicates as many as 5 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes per year and 4.5 million people in the United States alone are bitten by dogs annually. Worldwide annual human deaths from rabies are estimated at 55,000.
NEOSSat (the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) is the world's first space telescope dedicated to detecting and tracking asteroids and satellites, according to the Canadian Space Agency.
EU-OSHA and OSHA in the United States both have new documents available addressing safe work with these materials.