The U.S. Department of Labor launched the Workplace Flexibility Toolkit during National Disability Employment Awareness Month.
Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, who was the American Medical Association's president in 2010-2011, also identified ethics in medicine and the threat of climate change as major challenges facing the world and the medical profession.
Licensed design professionals can submit plans and obtain permits electronically for home renovations, office makeovers, façade repairs, etc.
To combat unsafe commercial cyclists, measures are taken to enforce safety classes and accountability.
Focused on improving safety for airline ground workers, the two-year alliance aims to prevent struck-by injuries, slips and falls, and chemical exposures.
Atomi has voluntarily recalled the Sharper Image USB chargers because they can overheat and smoke, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers, CPSC announced Oct. 10.
They are the two prime contractors for a new award to provide industrial hygiene and environmental technical support services in about 200 federally owned, occupied, or leased buildings in the National Capital Region.
A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Dutch colleagues found that regional density of livestock is an important risk factor for people without direct contact with the animals.
This is a federal government Senior Executive Service (SES) position located in Washington, D.C.
The Standards Council approved in principle a request to proceed with a standard addressing design, use, testing, and certification of SCBAs for emergency response operations that don’t involve structural firefighting.
The usage-based auto insurance policy became available in four more states Oct. 8 and will be in three additional states in November, the company recently announced.
The Environmental Health in Low-Energy Buildings conference will take place in October 2013 in Vancouver, Canada.
Set for Oct. 25-26 in Helsinki, the event is intended to advance the EU-U.S. collaboration and raise the Communities of Research to a new level of activity.
CDC, DOL, FDA, and more than a dozen other agencies are participating in the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 event.
Composite fire-resistant materials, particularly deck gratings, may lose their load-bearing capabilities after relatively short exposures to hydrocarbon pool fires, the agency warns.
The agency launched an investigation after an employee working on a parking lot paving job in Washington, D.C., suffered heat stress, was taken to a hospital, and died there.
The task is to design and engineer drive train and mobility systems to collaboratively design elements of a new amphibious infantry vehicle: FANG, the Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle.