Just ahead of the year's biggest U.S. auto show, Ford and GM announced they will hire more than 3,000 salaried workers this year, according to a Detroit News report. As of October, U.S. manufacturers' light vehicle output in 2012 was about 20 percent above that of the previous year.
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, will convene it Jan. 28 in Charleston, W.Va., seven weeks after the pipeline explosion in nearby Sissonville.
It will allow the Austin Fire Department Hazardous Materials Response Team to attend the IAFC International Hazardous Materials Response Teams Conference, June 6-9 in Baltimore.
It requires setting a minimum alarm point at 25 percent of the rated service time but allows manufacturers to set it at a higher point.
Among the findings being presented there are papers analyzing ways to reduce hazards encountered by highway emergency responders and those working inside highway work zones.
His announcement said 19,128 cases of influenza have been reported in New York this season, more than quadrupling the total of 4,404 positive laboratory tests that were reported all of last season.
With 18 deaths so far in Massachusetts, the city of Boston declared a health emergency.
Several committee chairs come from Underwriters Laboratories Inc. and also from the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. The Safety Equipment Institute’s president, Patricia Gleason, chairs the Conformity Assessment Policy Committee.
The first phase of the Health Hazard Evaluation Program’s examination of health and safety in the electronic waste recycling industry is expected to end in April. It will include a survey of as many as 100 e-waste recycling facilities across the country.
The ferry was transporting commuters from New Jersey to Manhattan during rush hour.
After a crash in Oregon, a tour bus company with a history of DOT citations has been ordered to cease operations.
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington are among the 10 states with the highest rates of non-medical use of prescription pain reliever, according to a newly released SAMHSA report.
According to OSHA research, while toxins are present at sites for Hurricane Sandy recovery, they are not higher than the exposure levels that OSHA deems permissible.
The impetus for the rulemaking action is a report by FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on the impact of the June 2012 derecho, a major windstorm that affected 77 call centers serving more than 3.6 million people in several states.
Frost & Sullivan announced the Canadian company is its 2012 European Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.
"Over the Christmas and New Year holidays with my family in California, I enjoyed my first opportunity in years to reflect on the past and my future, with an open mind and an open heart. After much discussion with family and close friends, I have decided to begin a new future, and return to the people and places I love and that have inspired and shaped my life," she wrote in a letter to DOL employees.
ASSE officials attended a summit in Abu Dhabi to assist in the advancement of occupational health and safety.